[NickyBoy]

What’s with the assumption that only older presenters are capable of doing anything? Plenty of young talent in radio.

There is plenty of young talent in radio, I agree. However there also seems to be a lot of people who struggle to do anything more than the usual speed links, promoting the latest bangers or the latest showbiz story. They don't have the experience of the older presenters who have worked in local radio for a long time, from the days when it wasn't music based, it was more journalistic, speech based. 

I've worked in radio for over 20 years, and I wouldn't be able to do that kind of long, open-ended, information heavy show, which the likes of Andrew Edwards have done repeatedly, as my background is music radio rather than speech radio. It's a vastly different skill, which not every presenter has. That's my opinion anyway.