Friday midnight, Radio 2

TruckerT

Until recently, I was a night-time HGV driver, and, sad as it might sound, the highlight of my week was Friday midnight-3am - Mark Lamarr used to be good, then there was a bit of a lull, but Huey Morgan is even better than Jools Holland on a Monday or Jamie Cullum on Tuesday

Now where's my next can of Strongbow...

TruckerT

adyj73

Mark and Lard - Legends ;-)

TruckerT

Did anyone listen to the 'Jimmy Young at 90' programme on radio2 last night?

Now there was a guy who had the balance just about right - always polite, but asked the questions which were burning in my mind, rather than trying to compete with the toadies and prima donnas of radio4 and bbc2 - and, believe it or not, his gentle approach sometimes lulled his interviewees into giving more stuff away - i would really like to be able to hear some recordings of the smalltalk which took place whilst the music was playing...

TruckerT

Joe_Bloggs

If the questions were burning then you had the wrong gas mark setting.
And it is Sir Jimmy Young as he got a knighthood for decades of fawning sycophancy.

TruckerT

Joe_Bloggs wrote: »

If the questions were burning then you had the wrong gas mark setting.
And it is Sir Jimmy Young as he got a knighthood for decades of fawning sycophancy.

One of his greatest pleasures was to get equal numbers of yes-votes and no-votes!

TruckerT

Joe_Bloggs

TruckerT you have changed my mind. How does it help any issue if there are equal yes and no votes.
J_B.

TruckerT

Joe_Bloggs wrote: »

How does it help any issue if there are equal yes and no votes.
J_B.

Call Jeremy Vine - he knows the answer to everything

TruckerT

Joe_Bloggs

I think Jeremy Vine should be the next Hugh Denis. Jeremy Paxman will be given recipes to read out at the end of Newsnight rather than speculative newspaper headlines.
J_B.

TruckerT

I listened to You and Yours the other day for the first time in ages, and there was a really annoying interviewer who started every single sentence with the phrase 'I'm sorry to interrupt'

The Today people are the worst - if they're not stuttering over 'today's papers', they're forever trying to dominate the person they are supposed to be giving airtime to, as if they're like the judges on X-factor or something, and paid to be a major part of the 'show'. I remember an interview with Robin Day and he was asked what he might have done differently with his life - he replied that he would like to be able to be certain that he had done something really useful

TruckerT

Joe_Bloggs

If you like old fogies talking then consider the documentary, "Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara."
Stuck with slanty Is in italics now. It is strange that his middle name was Strange.
J_B.
Full movie here courtesy of google video.

lollipopsarah

Jimmy Young is a legend - no offence jeremy
I loved the radio 2 interview bless him
xx