Stumbled across the show again the other day while driving during the night. I'm sure she's a lovely lass but she's a poor choice of host for this programme. Her interview with Shakin Stevens was pure cringe. Music was good though.

Anyone listening?

No --- not my favourite music era .
Regards

It's on Radio 2, one of the biggest stations in the country.
I imagine someone is listening.

You've clearly forgotten this thread has existed since the show began in October 2013 Al.....

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showt...895800&page=30

It's a long time since I listened, which was when it was on Saturday night.

No

I refuse to listen to anything from a woman who wasn't even born in the era and who's game plan was to get drunk lots, make sure you were photographed drunk by the press by being drunk, dancing on nightclub tables and snogging famous musicians,get labelled a ladette and become famous with no obvious talent.

Same for...Ball( famous dad) No obvious talent

Winkleman ( Famous mum) No obvious talent

O Dreary..just famous no obvious talent.

/thread.

Err, Sara Cox was born in 1974...

Sara Cox was 5 years old when the 80's started. So Sara lived through the decade, I know a lot of people say how can someone present a radio because they were a child through the 1980's. Being a child through the 1980's does not disqualify someone from being a knowledgeable music presenter on the subject. Sara would have bought the records of the acts she plays on her radio show.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Cox

Would people turn their nose up at a 30 year old presenting a show about the 1990's. I don't think so.

Look at Leo Green he is excellent presenter of Sounds of the 50's and was even born in the decade. He has acquired knowledge about this decade through a love of the music.

Just because someone is young does not make them less knowledgeable about a subject. I'm 30 years old and a lover of music from the 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's I'm quite knowledgeable about music from these decades. I gained this knowledge from listening to BBC Radio 2 from the age of 10 or 11 the line up then was Sarah Kennedy, Terry Wogan, Ken Bruce, Jimmy Young, Debbie Thrower, Ed Stewart and John Dunn plus Steve Wright on Saturday mornings. My parents had tuned to the station listening to new signing Steve Wright on Saturday mornings I had previously listened to Metro Radio. I liked the music and presenters on the station and when I heard a classic music track I taped it on cassette and then tracked it down in a record shop in Newcastle. I remember discovering Fleetwood Mac by Alex Lester playing You Make Lovin' Fun sitting in for Terry Wogan just before I was heading out to school. I am still discovering classic music gems by listening to BBC Radio 2 and BBC Local Radio but now I download them instantly from iTunes.

You're missing the point..If she was bornh in 1974 the she would've been 6 when the 80's began and 16 when it ended.

Why not get someone credible who lived in the music at the time, a musician, DJ,stockbroker, or someone who worked and went clubbing during the 80's. They would be much more credible.

I will NEVER listen to her because of the points I made previously. No obvious talent except getting drunk, being photographed drunk and snogging someone who might be slightly famous. THIS does NOT qualify you for fame, in my opinion.

I tried to watch BT sport and there was some pretty girl presenting, She has NO background in football, so why employ her? No obvious talent but she looks good. Total lack of credibility from BT and the BBC, and for that reason I WILL NOT LISTEN OR watch. I prefer Football Focus with Garth Crooks, Danny Mills and others who ACTUALLY played football at a professional level, they HAVE credibility.
If we follow this opath then we may as well make a child from gogglebox the next Prime Minister!

I haven't listened to this for so long now that it was still on Saturday night when I did. The host definitely puts me off and in many people's eyes is strongly associated with all that ladette culture and Girly Show stuff of the 90's.

Sara Cox is just an awful DJ.

Woah. Dry your eyes.
I've just had a really great idea.
Here it comes - ready?

DON'T LISTEN TO IT.

You're more than welcome.

I will NEVER listen to her because of the points I made previously.

Open your eyes and learn to read!

I did. It's just that your points make no sense.

It's possible to be knowledgeable on a subject without having been in your adulthood during it.

I presume you refuse to listen to historians too?

"You didn't live during Roman times! And you got drunk in the student union!"

i'm not sure being "pretty" and not having been a football player debars you from being knowledgeable and articulate about football either.

It's not about looks it's about credibility
Why have just a pretty face read an autocue with NO background in football
There are millions of pretty faces who could do that so why bother
Same with Cox. I was 20 in 1980 and it was a great and turbulent decade with Thatcher the falkands,live aid, how can someone who was in primary school relate to these momentous events?
That's why I will never listen why not have someone who was in their 20s or 30s and was directly connected to the music and events
If you just want someone who got drunk a lot and appeared in the tabloids a decade later you might as well just download a 80s hit album from I tunes

And historians are different
They interpret history with theories which is perfectly correct
Cox just plays the music and got her position by being drunk a decade later and being photographed in the tabloids
There is no interpretation of what was a great and turbulent decade!

Sad how some individuals obsess about one aspect of a persons life and decide that because of what they did in a few brief years they deserve no recognition from themselves. What a sad dismal view of the world if you let one short trivial aspect of a persons life stop you from listening to something. It may be good it may be bad but pre judging is just ridiculous and if you use this benchmark for everything you may well miss out on somethings that are worth watching listening too. Prejudice fuelled by a knowledge of a brief interlude in a persons career which you seem to take great glee from repeating and emphasising is a sad reflection on your view of the world I think. As with most prejudices of course there is no real argument that anyone could make to you, a shame really. To paraphrase 'there are none so blind as those who will not see'.

It wasn't a short trivial part of her life IT WAS HER CAREER PATH..Get drunk, dance on tables, make sure the tabloids were watching and reporting who she was snogging. Before that who was she?..after that who is she NOW. It was her career path and it shows a total lack of talent and credibility.

How far do you think Match of The Day would've lasted being presented by Winkleman and Christopher Biggins. It's about CREDIBILITY.

With Walker and Sounds of the 70's you get that becuase he was a radio perosn since the mid 60's.. He interviews people and drops in real life things like 'I was interviewing XXX and John lennon popped in' Such snippets make him CREDIBLE!

I recently re-watched The Young Ones, brilliant game changing for it's time. the comedy the surrialism, how can Cox relate to something that happened while she was in primary school?

It's about CREIBILITY!

Why not get some like Boy George, Peter Tatchell, Holly Johnson to present? They could actually tell us little snippets of what it was like to live, perform, react to events of such a great decade.

Sure is.

Wish I could spell Credibility!

I'm with Doug on this subject and have been saying similar on this thread since the show began. Haven't listened for a couple of years and have even less inclination to do so on a Friday. Coxy is just wrong for this show and in no way represents the 80s for me, someone who was 16 when the decade arrived.

She cannot be compared to Leo Green who would have lived and breathed 50s music through his father, as well as playing with many of the greats of that decade. As far as I can tell Coxy has no specific link to the 80s. If she got the job in an attempt to even out the sexes on the Radio 2 rosta, why not Janice Long?

er, a stockbroker? Whatever her faults I'm quite sure I'd rather listen to Sara Cox than a stockbroker (whose 'credibility' on this topic escapes me to be honest).

I was being being ironic..
Although, remember Thatcher's 'Big bang when she de-regulated the stock exhange. Remember BT's Busby, and British gas 'Tell Sid' That's the flavour of the decade I want. Poll Tax riots, right to buy, Falklands, 3 million unemployed. We all belonged to a tribe back then. Punks,Goths, Disco, New Romantics, not the 'I'm famous becauise I won a talent show' Pap!
I was watching The Young Ones(xmas pressie) do you know why Viv's hamster was called SPG? Do you remember why they formed and were disbanded, why was UB40's song '1 in 10' so called. This is the flavour I want, which Cox can't possibly give us unless a researcher does it all and she just reads it, which defeats the object. That's why we need someone who lived and worked through the decade because they would have snippets of what it was like, something Cox could never do!