[Robert Williams]

The main reason I find Steve quite frustrating is because I really enjoyed his Radio 1 shows as a kid growing up. He's just not really changed with the times at all.

Serious Jockin' wasn't my cup of tea.  In it's favour, the whole "no g" gimmick seemed to land well with some listeners and set him apart from similar, bland Kitchen Disco/Club Classics stuff you'd find elsewhere.  What was truly cringe was the alter-ego character "DJ Silly Boi".  Totally unneccessary and quite embarrassing.

You just needed to listen to the likes of Scott & Chris on Radio 1 at the time, or even Liza Tarbuck on the same station, to see how you can be yourself but engage with the listeners in fun, original ways with a few laughs along the way.  Even with Love Songs, I feel Steve just reads the dedication straight (not that fluently) and often doesn't even say thanks or add his own congratulations to top-and-tail it, or build on the interaction in any way. Just feels a bit cold.

I too used to enjoy the show in the Radio 1 show when I used to listen in the late 80s and early 90s, and I think it started off okay when Steve re-emerged on Radio 2 (firstly at the weekend and then back in the afternoons from 1999) but it wasn't long before it became stuck in a rut and just felt like a pale shadow of what he used to do on Radio 1.

One of the problems I had was that so many elements of the show were recorded in advance - the Factoids, the guests, the chats with Tim and Janey etc - resulting in a show that felt pre-packaged and lacked the spontaneity that you get in live radio shows.

I bailed out of the Big Show around 2008 by which time I felt it was long past its sell-by date, so it seems astonishing that it lasted for nearly another decade-and-a-half - when I came back to it in its last few weeks, I found a show that was barely changed from when I last listened.

Scott's Radio 2 show is hardly a paragon of broadcasting brilliance, but a refresh of the afternoons was long overdue.