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Old 27-10-2016, 17:59
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Me and my wife were staying in London from Saturday until today. While driving home this afternoon, we unluckily managed to catch the last hour of Vanessa Feltz's afternoon show, sitting in for Jeremy Vine. Surely I can't be the only one who cannot abide this woman?!
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Old 27-10-2016, 18:04
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What has this got to do with being in London? Radio 2 is available in Manchester too. And why did you drive for an hour listening to a woman you can't abide? Were neither of you able to retune the radio? What do you normally do during the many, many other weeks of the year she covers for Jeremy Vine?

I think it's frogs you can place in a pan of cold water and then slowly raise to a boil, and they just sit there allowing themselves to get cooked rather than jumping out when it becomes uncomfortable, like any other sensible and physically capable creature would do...
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Old 27-10-2016, 20:59
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Me and my wife were staying in London from Saturday until today. While driving home this afternoon, we unluckily managed to catch the last hour of Vanessa Feltz's afternoon show, sitting in for Jeremy Vine. Surely I can't be the only one who cannot abide this woman?!
I don't even bother to.listen when she's covering. She talks down to the listeners and parrionises them. How someone can be so experienced buy yet so bad at talk radio.

Even the smarmy sounding usual cover bloke would be better than her. Why can't we have Matthew Bannister covering again or even Nicky Campbell who if the rumours (from a very reliable source) were to believed was being lined up for the gig when Vine got it.

His show is one of tge best ones on Radio 2 but his cover presenters are often dreadfull.
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Old 27-10-2016, 22:46
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I actually think she's great on this show; her scripted bit at the start of each segment always seems a bit false, but she handles discussions and callers very well, particularly today with regards to the Black History Month debate.
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Old 27-10-2016, 22:57
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I could probably put with Vanessa Feltz, if it wasn't for the sound of her voice, everything she says and the way she says it.
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Old 27-10-2016, 23:15
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I could probably put with Vanessa Feltz, if it wasn't for the sound of her voice, everything she says and the way she says it.
If there was a facebook style like button I'd use it for this post.
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Old 28-10-2016, 07:15
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I could probably put with Vanessa Feltz, if it wasn't for the sound of her voice, everything she says and the way she says it.
I have vented my opinions about Feltz before and her droning voice, thankfully she's usually on at a time when I'm still asleep, however when she sits in for JV her voice just grates, like fingernails on a blackboard.

Someone on. FB forum said they found her voice 'soothing' Must say the last word that comes to mind is soothing.
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Old 28-10-2016, 11:52
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she works bloomin hard, not only as an accomplished writer for periodicals/newspapers but as a truly professional broadcaster. she is articulate and intelligent, she has had good times and very sad times in her life and is at the top of her game.
but enough for me, I just loved her 3 hour (mid morning) phone in on Radio London. cant bear the Radio2 early show and cant bear when she covers for JV.its a bit of an overkill.
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Old 23-11-2016, 19:32
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Anyone's better than Jeremy Vine on the Vine show. Anyone
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Old 23-11-2016, 21:10
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Appalling radio. She spends all her time throwing out topics without taking them further. Actual content is very small. Music radio including BBC R2 needs far less waffle, more music based programming by people whose primary skills are in presenting music. If they've been on TV the chances are they will be rubbish on music radio.
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Old 24-11-2016, 00:40
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Music radio including BBC R2 needs far less waffle, more music based programming by people whose primary skills are in presenting music.
Will this fix Radio 2's long-term problem of equally appalling listening figures?...
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Old 24-11-2016, 07:14
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Paddy O'Connell has been covering for Jeremy last week and this week and he's far better than Jeremy.

Please Jeremy, stick to Eggheads and give Paddy the show full time.
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Old 24-11-2016, 22:49
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Appalling radio. She spends all her time throwing out topics without taking them further. Actual content is very small. Music radio including BBC R2 needs far less waffle, more music based programming by people whose primary skills are in presenting music. If they've been on TV the chances are they will be rubbish on music radio.
This is a news show not a music show, the Radio 2 charter clearly requires a daily 2 hour news show. That won't change.
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Old 25-11-2016, 01:21
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Feltz is awful on the early show. The most cliched cheesy features like "what are you doing up at this time of day" that makes it sound like the worst of very small local radio.

Why is that deemed good enough on national radio? Grim.
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Old 30-11-2016, 21:36
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Awful awful! She's not suited to JVs show at all. She likes the sound of her own voice too much, doesn't hide her own thoughts on whatever topic they're discussing & she talks over people who don't agree with her.
She also stops interesting discussions to play another bloody pop song (that we've heard a million times before) instead of letting it flow. JV is guilty of this too I may add.
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Old 01-12-2016, 18:34
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I would like hear JVS (Jonathon Vernon Smith) of BBC 3CR fill in.
he is an excellent , intelligent and articulate presenter.
National radio should give more time to local presenters otherwise we will only get bloomin Keilty / Feltz etc filling in.
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Old 01-12-2016, 22:33
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Just remember that she once promoted herself as the woman who introduced anal bleaching to a UK audience!
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Old 02-12-2016, 08:44
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Will this fix Radio 2's long-term problem of equally appalling listening figures?...
You guys on here are so boring and predictable, always reverting the argument to questionable listening figures in an attempt to stifle debate.

The BBC does NOT need to chase ratings ( thanks to the 'unique' way they are funded) if they didn't it would give the independents more scope and increase the choice for the listening (and viewing) licence paying public...
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Old 02-12-2016, 09:30
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You guys on here are so boring and predictable, always reverting the argument to questionable listening figures in an attempt to stifle debate.

The BBC does NOT need to chase ratings ( thanks to the 'unique' way they are funded) if they didn't it would give the independents more scope and increase the choice for the listening (and viewing) licence paying public...
The same old suspects are so boring and predictable in their slagging off of Radio 2 presenters, stating their opinions as fact and pretending no one listens when in fact those shows are the biggest in the country.

Radio 2 has a remit to provide speech content so the other poster's statement about "far less waffle" is irrelevant. The BBC does indeed need to chase ratings in some ways precisely because of the unique way it's funded. They have to justify how that money is spent, and a large audience for Radios 2, 4 and even 1 helps justify the licence fee, just as much as most of the popular TV shows being on BBC1. This allows BBC local radio to stand back, providing unique content that would never appear on a commercial station in a million years, giving the independents more scope and listeners.

You talk about increasing choice for the listener - What radio station in the UK sounds anything like Radio 2? You can compare individual elements (like comparing just two small white tiles on two distinct mosaics to prove that they're "the same") but nothing sounds like Radio 2 and provides the diverse choice of content like they do. By the same token, no commercial station sounds anything like Radio 4.

And it's all a bit totalitarian to want to forcibly cripple Radio 2 in order to make its listeners to switch to stations they wouldn't otherwise choose to listen to. Radio 2 is the most popular station in the country because people like it (real people, not Steve Wright obsessives on an obscure Internet forum) not because people have no other choice. With the limitless resources of Global, why isn't Capital or Heart doing exactly the same thing as Radio 2 and stealing their audience?

Is it because, in truth, despite all the moaning, Global have no interest in Radio 2's audience because they're too old for top-paying advertisers to target, or they're too selective to be influenced easily by adverts and commercial promotions? In other words, what would actually be achieved by crippling Radio 2 to force its listeners away? They may reluctantly retune to Capital, but the market research won't show them as valuable listeners, and Global aren't going to spoil the image of their stations by running adverts for driving gloves, slippers, upholsterers and weekend breaks in Whitstable - the four cornerstones of Ken Bruce's daily emails and banter with Lynn Bowles.
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Old 02-12-2016, 18:46
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The best cover ever for JV was Jane Hill who sat in for a week once, about 6 or 7 years ago.
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Old 11-12-2016, 23:09
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I dont really like Jezza Vine to be honest. I can listen to him, but despite listening to Radio 2 all day from 7am-7pm I often switch off during his show.

However when Feltz is on I can't even listen to the 11:30 preview with Ken Bruce...... she is awful.
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