1981 day on 5 live - the highlights

I enjoyed 1981 yesterday. Thank you.



Next week can we have 2006 please?



I'd like to hear the old lineup and compare the quality, intelligence and brillance of the pre-AVK lineup with today's big personalities.



Sadly too few of stalwarts remain in situ of course like Peter Allan and the brilliant Rhod Sharp.



It would be timely given the BBC Trust review of 5Live to hear what the station used to sound like.



The ridiculous defence that the station is more popular than ever (after suffering it's biggest fall in five years in the previous surveys) to defend the programming decisions doesn't really wash... Big Brother is hugely popular but that doesn't mean that it should be on BBC1.

I can't listen to any BBC radio anymore with the new player!



Another example of "fixing" something that worked just fine.

Your radio player doesn't work with FireFox.

Don't you know that half the population now uses other browsers than Explorer?



Your t3chnical design team need firing and rehiring!

I really enjoyed Breakfast.

What did you have Carrie?

Ho ho ryanw.



Today was interesting because the crew played a cruel farewell joke on Shelagh which fortunately her gracious humour saved from becoming a bit dodgy. But then I switched over and so I bet it has been replayed every half hour since.

I thought it was fantastic today... will miss Shelagh in the mornings.

Yes that incident that Carrie referred to actually made its way into the Daily Mail.



Ooh err, Chancellor: George Osborne's saucy farewell message for radio presenter who said she had erotic dreams about him



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1381445/George-Osborne-sends-saucy-farewell-message-radio-presenter-Shelagh-Fogarty.html

I was talking about the spoof call Nicky made Fedster, pretending to be an American Professor, she didn't recognise him at all and got quite annoyed at his behaviour until she realised it was Nicky.

"A blog where 5 live’s programme makers, interactive team, editors and senior managers talk about the station and respond to listeners."



Closing blog because they are off topic is yours and your colleagues' fault Hasit. We want a place for the above to actually happen please, responses to listeners and their views would be very welcome, especially as we pay through our licence fee for you lot to work.

Here we go again.... this 10 day rule is ridiculous... stiffling debate and discouraging participation.



Appalling.



Carrie is 100% correct.



Now, I would make this comment on the appropriate thread but I can't as it too is closed... Q.E.D.



Let's not forget the series on the Regional Journalists... of course we weren't told the series was at an end, but I assume there are no more posts on the subject?!



We learnt (as several of us expected) that there is NO London RJ, NO East Anglia RJ and NO South East RJ, BUT there are _TWO_ RJs in the West Midlands.



And this is suppose to be a NATIONAL radio station?



Why are London, East Anglia and the South East treated as second class?



And how can one region have two RJs when another, the South of England is ridiculously large?



Or is news and national coverage not as important as entertainment on 5Live? Hmm.

I wonder if the ‘off topic’ comments had been complementary would the blog still have been closed to comments?

Hasit...



1. What is the harm of keeping posts open indefinitely? Answer: None.



2. What are the names of the South Eastern RJs? There was no post from a South Eastern RJ was there? Are you taking a very liberal interpretation, we got a post from someone who covers the South of England? Are seriously trying to say that is having two RJs in West Midlands and one to cover Hampshire, West Sussex, East Sussex, London, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Suffolk and East Anglia makes sense? Just so we're clear, can you give us the names of the RJs for each of those counties?

Well its about time that the BBC /5live made somewhere available for listeners/licence payers to comment.I don't know what you are so frightened of ? There are many contributors on here who openly praise 5live to the hilt so the argument about people just being negative for some reason and you find that abusive is totally wrong.I heard Alison Hastings ( BBC Trust ) on Victoria Derbyshires programme this morning and she seemed to be very calm and rationale compared to Vicky who once again got very upset by any criticism of her or 5live.Once again she has to hide behind the comfort blanket of too many callers put to air saying how great Vicky and 5live are while anyone with alternative view was quickly got rid of or constantly interrupted.Thank goodness for that online survey,its all we have left.

Hasit says: "this isn't a message board." But: "interactive team, editors and senior managers talk about the station and respond to listeners." Yes, respond to listeners. So if we comment, you respond. If nowhere to comment but out of date blog subjects you fail to live up to your remit. And if it only costs as little as Victoria pointed out this morning maybe you should all spend a bit more time and money designing a place for "respond to listeners" please.

New blog required please on the BBC Trust licence review.

Well, well...



I've pulled together the list of RJs from the posts we've had:



+ TWO RJs for the North of England

+ TWO RJs for the West Midlands

+ One RJ for EIGHT counties, in the most populous part of the country

+ No RJ for East Anglia, Kent, London, Berkshire or Hertfordshire

+ No RJ for Northern Ireland



No wonder we never hear from large swathes of the south!



James Shaw - Scotland

Nick Garnett - Yorkshire

Anna Foster - North East

Judy Hobson - North West of England

Steve Blears - North West of England

Bob Walker - West Midlands

Phil Mackie - West Midlands

Sarah Sturday - East Midlands

Mark Hutchings - Wales

Paul Greer - South of England "My patch is indecently huge" "East and West Sussex, Berkshire, Surrey, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset and the Isle of Wight all fall to me"

Sarah Ransome - South West

Don’t you think Victoria over did her interruptions for breaking news while Alison Hastings was there as if she was trying to make a point?



Anybody else noticed that Richard Bacon has suddenly started including more news stories during his afternoon programme this week?



Call me cynical...