Aside from the fact it all sounds like unprocessed arse, this talkRADIO is pretty good isn't it?

Decent mix of stuff, some I like, some I don't but even so, week 1 pretty much done, and I'm happy with it!

Forgot Bob Mills was on tonight. My overall impressions is i rather like it. Ok Paul Ross i have not heard but i prefere Chris Moyles & drivetime was not for me. Not bad.

On a slight tangent, although it had become more and more obvious on 'Vernon Kaymaster' , the first episode of Jon Holmes' 'Paul Rossmaster' makes it pretty clear he does not like Moyles

Howard Hughes sounding very polished right now.

I'm really enjoying his show, great to hear him back on the radio!!!!

In the end, I couldn't listen to the show properly and had to dip in and out. I guess I'm not really in the best position to judge, but what I heard wasn't terribly good, I'm sorry to say. I hope I was unlucky and that I just caught some dull bits...


I didn't listen as cars are not my thing, but I had no idea they were repeating a show on two days running. That's disappointing to hear.

Definitely. I used to dip in to the podcast from time to time but its great he is back where he belongs.

The Saturday property show is also repeated on Sunday.

Thanks for the info. I wonder if that's permanent, or just until they get some more presenters lined up? Petrie Hosken has just left LBC... Hmmm, I wonder...??

The Listen Again links are still in GMT so if that's still the case tomorrow, will that screw up the full show podcast feeds set up for Iain and Jon?

A good point, I visited the talkRADIO website tonight to click on listen live to the Howard Hughes show {which was on the radio at the time] and it was still showing as playing live the Bob Mills show.

Howard Hughes Unexplained Show is absolutely as great and listenable as I expected it to be. It seems odd listening on radio again to it having spent such a long time listening to his podcasts. His podcasts are some of the best podcasts I've ever listened to for pure professionalism that comes over. Plus no adverts, which is the only drag now it's back on radio after a decade away, and he says he's even broadcasting from the same studio that he left back in 2006 remarkably.

You don't have to agree with all the stories and anecdotes to appreciate Howard's show.

If anyone here is new to this show tonight then I'd highly recommend checking out his podcast back catalogue on his Unexplained website or iTunes from the past few years with some great guests.....and a few dubious weirdo's I'll not deny, and I'm sure he himself would agree.

The 10pm to 1am slot on TalkRadio has proved highly listenable.

Thankfully the ad breaks aren't as long as those on Talksport. Sometimes you could go for a bath and they'd still be playing the ads

As I dipped in and out tonight, trying to catch Bob Mills' show, whenever I turned out it seemed to be adverts.

What's more, at one point it went from adverts to trailer and back to adverts...! Very annoying.

I'll check today and fix the feeds if necessary. I'll set up a new feed for Howard Hughes - great show!

I presume you have to host the links that convert the talkRADIO links into a podcast feed, isn't there some sort of online service where anyone could just put the listen again link into an address bar and it would create a feed so anyone could create their own feed to any talkRADIO show to download into a podcast app?

I sincerely hope not. TalkRadio can do far better than Petrie Hosken.

I'd no idea she was leaving LBC as I don't catch every show of hers, I respect your view but I like her and hope she joins talkRADIO.

Ah, thanks. Looks like I won't be getting bored anytime soon!

Howard Hughes - what a great show. It's nice to have this kind of content on UK speech radio. I can't imagine 5live or LBC providing such. It's something different and certainly better than yet another 3 hours of amiable chit-chat of whatever happens to be in the news.

Not that I know of, although it would be nice if someone was to create one!

I've updated the feeds for the GMT / BST issue and added two new feeds. There may be some issues with last week's programmes if you're using for the first time as the app is now assuming BST.

http://podcasts.mywebcommunity.org/lee.php
http://podcasts.mywebcommunity.org/holmes.php

NEW:
http://podcasts.mywebcommunity.org/hughes.php
http://podcasts.mywebcommunity.org/jaye.php


Just a reminder these feeds are unsupported and unofficial and merely point at the individual mp3 files hosted by TalkRADIO itself. Any issues, let me know!

Haven't heard it yet but it's now loaded up on my MP3 player for me to listen to shortly.

On yer bike........ Billy ?

Hi Rich Tea, I forgot to ask, do have any recommendations from the Howard Hughes podcasts? Any good guests or topics? I'm not fussy and have no particular areas of interest, it's just difficult to know where to start!

I'm going to listen to the David Icke podcast now as I'd like to check up on what he's up to these days. I still remember that first David Icke interview on Wogan in the 90s with Terry poking fun at him and the audience laughing, it was very uncomfortable to watch.

JHB's show this morning was the best so far in terms of the topics and contributions of guests. The bouncy castle debate had gueests from both sides.

I do wish they'd stop discussing sports topics. Now it's the boxing. That one has been covered so extensively on TalkSport that extracts from an interview on that station were played in the Talk Radio news (not the sports news).

A bit early for me yet the bike Sleep.

I stopped listening to overnight radio when talkSPORT went 24 hour talkPREM and with only Nick Margerrison on LBC and Dotun Adebayo on BBC Radio 5 at the time I gave up listening to overnight radio and started downloading tonnes of podcasts from everywhere and listened to them instead on my MP3 player.

I joined LBC's excellent podcast service, started downloading stuff from Radio 5 and other stations and even documentaries on YouTube and I found it all great listening far better than the boring tripe radio stations were pumping out at night and no adverts or news breaks etc.

I've never looked back since and that's the complete truth.

But I have to say this new talkRADIO station has really opened horizons there's stacks of stuff I like and can save I just hope it lasts [the station] and doesn't go under for whatever reason.

On a scale of 10.
talkSPORT = 1
talkRADIO = 8