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To me, Radio 1 was an temporary adventure during my teenage and college years. I was brought up on the "Today" programme since the days I first ate porridge on my own at the family breakfast table. (Those of us who have been there will remember how saddened we were when Brian Redhead passed away.) So when I defected to Radio 1 for a few years it was just that; temporary. When I left college and started work I was back to the Today programme and have been there ever since. And it is *just* the Today programme. I know nothing about the vast stretches of the rest of the schedule, just that programme.

Jag | Homepage | 30.09.07 - 10:28 a.m. | #

Oh, you know what: for the first time I might listen to a *different* Radio 4 show: George Michael (local boy) is on Desert Island Discs at 11:15 this morning!

Jag | Homepage | 30.09.07 - 10:33 a.m. | #

i think you'll find that radio one now has all the 'safe' content and radio 2 has the 'edgier' stuff. mark radcliffe in the evening is miles better than that NZ foo fighter loving loser on radio 1. radio 1 have lost sight of the definition of 'alternative' if they think a studio session from fall out boy on jo "i'm a complete and utter hideous woman" whiley's show during the day is what the 'kids' want. same goes for the NME, as it's now no better than smash hits used to be. we used to take the piss out of rock mags like Q and Mojo but I now turn to them for intelligent criticism of the 'new' sounds.

dave | Homepage | 30.09.07 - 10:36 a.m. | #

I totally had you tagged as Radio 4 - that middle-class bonding experience and subtle reinforcement of conservative values - pleasantly surprised to find it ain't so.

gwplf | 30.09.07 - 10:36 a.m. | #

Radio 6 - via the internet - for me, btw.

gwplf | 30.09.07 - 10:38 a.m. | #

Oh dear, I'm one of the many Radio 4 listening DG readers... I never expected to see myself in so much company.

Quink | Homepage | 30.09.07 - 11:27 a.m. | #

I stuck with Radio One at breakfast right up until that ghastly Moyles fellow took over. The best R1 programmes all seem to be after midnight, unfortunately.

These days, I hop between R4's Today programme, R3's absolutely superb Late Junction, R2's Sounds of the Sixties with Brian Matthew (some amazing rarities unearthed there) and Pick of the Pops with Auntie Dale, various shows on 6Music, and Round The Horne / Just A Minute / I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue re-runs on BBC7.

mike | Homepage | 30.09.07 - 12:14 p.m. | #

Blimey - can't believe Brian Matthew's still going!!

mazz | 30.09.07 - 1:43 p.m. | #

I see a whopping 2\\% share my favorite... Radio 3.

jon | Homepage | 30.09.07 - 4:19 p.m. | #

Yup, every radio in my house would feel very at home in yours. I wish I could get more enthusiastic about Xfm, but it seems so dour by comparison.

I had a six month dalliance with Radio 4 about three years ago, when I tried to pretend to be a grown-up. Some things are just not meant to be.

Hg | Homepage | 30.09.07 - 4:48 p.m. | #

I love Mark Radcliffe too, (better than watching EastEnders), Sounds of the 60's, Suzie Quatro, and Jonathan Ross, so it's got to be 2. And what about Miles Mendoza website of the day? I was a Radio 1 devotee when it first started, but us more 'mature' listeners have to concede that 1 is for younger people. It's iPod under the bedclothes at night now, all your own CD collection. (Does anyone remember Radio Luxembourg?)

Tina from Surrey | 30.09.07 - 5:27 p.m. | #

Would agree with Hg that XFM (well, XFM Scotland in my case) could be so much better. It's mostly quite bland.

I'm a Radio 5 11pm-5am devotee (encompassing currently Anita Anand and Up All Night's Rhod Sharpe and Dotun Adebayo). Stephen Nolan on the weekend I can not stand, nor can I be bothered with their incessant football bias during the day.

Another Andrew | 30.09.07 - 6:00 p.m. | #

I was a 6 Music ultra, but it's gone down the pan over the past couple of years - hopefully the departure of its boss will ease matters there.

Now I'm Five Live in short spells, a bit of 6, and a big fan of Mark Radcliffe on R2 in the evenings, diving over to Colin Murray on R1 at 10.

Radio 4 may as well broadcast to Mars, to be honest.

Inspector Sands | Homepage | 30.09.07 - 11:15 p.m. | #

6 used to be amazing and is so-so these days; but still better than most of the dreck. 4 has some truly awesome programming, but most of it is unlistenable to me. Only a few shows are great.

Chz | Homepage | 01.10.07 - 1:13 a.m. | #

Yep, it's Radcliffe then Murray for me too, with a bit of Guy Garvey on a Sunday over at 6 music. Reception, particularly digital, is bloody awful at mine, I also keep strange hours so internet and listen again features largely. But which to vote for?
If I was on a desert island and had to choose only one...it would have to be R4, if only for Womans hour and Just a Minute. It seems slightly odd now, that I with hundreds of others, attended Brian Readheads memorial service at St Paul's cathedral. I was interviewed on exiting and garbled some nonsense about him being a friend.

Gladys | 01.10.07 - 1:56 a.m. | #

Oh! how could I forget Danny Baker on London?

Gladys | 01.10.07 - 2:07 a.m. | #

I've only been listening since purchasing a cheapo portable digital radio at the start of the year, but the much vaunted 6Music has definitely proved to be a disappointment, and I can't quite put my finger on why. It doesn't play *bad* music, but it doesn't play much that truly thrills me either.

mike | Homepage | 01.10.07 - 11:39 a.m. | #

I can't have music as a background as I have to listen to it - and if it's something I dislike it makes me very annoyed. So Radio 4.

z | Homepage | 01.10.07 - 3:07 p.m. | #

I think a lot of us ageing Radio 4 people get our retro Radio 1 fix off DG here. We feel we are in touch with what it used to be without having to listen to the dross that it became. Mind you, my available listening hours are only the drive times at start and end of work which is never the best output of any station.

P.S. We tried 6music off the internet at the weekend. I don't know if we were doing something wrong but the quality was dreadful.

Rick | Homepage | 02.10.07 - 10:10 a.m. | #

Radio 1. 10.30am. Early 1980s. Simon Bates. Our Tune.

His everyday tale of death, divorce, diseases and letter writer mourning brought the UK to a 15 minute stand still. SB single handedly relaunched Elton John's career.

Cried? Oh yes we did. Usually with laughter.

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