Originally Posted by
bwfcol:
“Positive comments on 5Live on this thread, what's going on?
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We will need to put a stop to all of that!!!! Seriously, though I listened to Nicky over the weekend and he seemed very focused on the issues rather than how good he can look portraying the issues. I'm not having a go at him. It's just what he does!
But he was really good and I enjoyed the programmes enormously. I have to say I can do without putting two and three callers at a time on so they can speak with each other. Stephen Nolan seems to like this too, but sometimes you can't tell a word they are saying as they all talk all over each other.
I think all the programmes seem to have taken the view that we should look at these stories from the viewpoint of the listeners and I like the way they have tried to get as many real life stories and experiences on to the air.
This morning, with Adrian Chiles at College Green, he was very good. Alert and alive to it all and coming at it from a very "man of the people" type angle. Many mornings he sounds like he hasn't got up yet. But he was really good today.
I quite like this idea of let's have a bit of news and then let's have a bit of tennis approach to the afternoon as well. I think they should think about this in future years.
To my mind, Five Live has been a standard bearer of how these things should be done in a modern world. Radio Four still seems to want to wait until the newsreader can be bothered to tell you that the world is collapsing around us.
I know people like to say news events are boring, but when handled like Five Live have over the last few days, news events are very entertaining. I truly hope that these last few days have secured Five Live's future and when the BBC do eventually unveil their big plan for the next few years, Five Live remains not only untouched in terms of budget, but secures extra finance so they don't have to keep reverting to midnight phone ins which are not worthy of them.