[madmusician]

Well I am not a fan of the new package. I think that the 2013 package was just so well done, and it’s been watered down over the years in any case (not least replacing the sung frequency with that awful ‘listen now on BBC Sounds’ spoken tag) but this isn’t a good enough replacement IMHO.

And it’s a real shame that the brilliant Jeremy Vine phone number jingle (over which he used to read the topics out after the first song) has been replaced by some dreadful dirge. There’s just no comparison. And I bet that there have been no orchestral recording sessions for this package, unlike in 2013:

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(The Vine jingle I refer to starts at 50 seconds)

Any idea who has done it? No sign of it on the Wise Buddah website, and I’ve googled ‘Radio 2 new jingle package’ and have got nowhere - no mention on RadioToday, for example.