[strollfan]

The reality of the complaints is that they mostly come from an audience that, to be blunt, the BBC won't keep hold of for much longer regardless thanks to father time. The station cannot appeal to the exact same people it always did for time immemorial, because eventually those people will go extinct and the station will have no audience.

Some of the broadcasters lost in recent years have been great broadcasters - Ken Bruce has changed with the times far better than nearly any of his contemporaries, the likes of Graham Norton and the late Paul O'Grady are popular across all ages and excellent broadcasters in their own rights - but the reality is that Radio 2 now has a line-up of great presenters across the week while renewing their remit. Radio is, sadly, a dying format - numbers dropping are unavoidable to an extent, but broadcasters like Rylan, Scott Mills, and Vernon Kay remain popular enough to hold an audience long-term in a way aging broadcasters like Steve Wright and Simon Mayo did not.