[DeMarkay]

I’ve always been surprised that nobody has come up with a way to listen to a radio programme with your own music - ie a Spotify playlist. For entertainment radio, as opposed to music radio, it could work well.

Why can’t my breakfast show be Dave Berry’s links, my playlist, Radio Forth news and BBC world news on alternate hours with me opting out of travel news? It’s not a million miles from where we are, but would be a big improvement IMO.

In terms of live radio more generally, it’s here to stay in some form I’m sure. There’s no beating a live DJ, listener interaction and it just being ‘there’, one button (on/off) on my radio just gives some form of entertainment; that’s pretty great.

Sorry but, I beg to differ. Global have ‘live’ station branded playlists on Global Player complete with pre-recorded, sense of day links from presenters. They’ve been a thing for years.

I was part of the team that created them and put them live. All done through Zetta.