[VMPhil]

With the exception of Jeremy Vine, now it’s practically Radio 1 from 20 years ago… Jeremy sticks out like a sore thumb.

I feel like Ken’s departure is the biggest loss to the station since Wogan. It really is struggling to hold itself together these days. It’s the weakest it’s been for years. All their star talent going over the last few years. Ken, Paul O’Grady, Simon Mayo, Chris Evans,
Graham Norton and though she grates on me normally, Vanessa Feltz was brilliant at the early breakfast. Steve Wright’s exit was long overdue though, it’s just a shame to see Radio 2 being torn to pieces. 

But look at 20 years ago and a lot of the DJs were from the Radio 1 of 10-20 years beforehand - Steve Wright, Johnnie Walker, Janice Long, and then a few years later Mark Radcliffe, Simon Mayo, Chris Evans. 

It's a natural progression, but not one that has always been in place. When Radio 1 went through it's big change in the early 90's one issue they had was that there was no where for the older listeners or the DJs to go to - Radio 2 was a very different station back then - easy listening and gentle speech for a much older demographic.

Yes I was recently reading "The Nation's Favourite" and interestingly DLT did know he was too old for Radio 1 and had approached Frances Line, who was then controller of Radio 2, to take his programme there but she declined. Which partly contributed to a frustrated DLT quitting on air.