Radio 2 stars ought to stay tuned in (From The Oxford Times)

Radio 2 stars ought to stay tuned in

3:38pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010 in

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‘You don’t hear enough Alma Cogan on the radio,” Michael Ball told his Radio 2 audience on Sunday before playing the singer’s version of The Beatles’ Eight Days a Week. Afterwards, he said something else which implied this had been a very rare event.

In fact, the selfsame track had been aired the previous day by Brian Matthew on Radio 2’s Sounds of the Sixties. Furthermore, Brian remarked that he had played it last year.

Is there no one on the BBC’s vastly overpaid staff able to monitor the output of its most popular radio station and prevent such gaffes?

Later on Sunday, after lunch out and a wonderful afternoon watching the Russian Ice Stars at the New Theatre, I tuned into Radio 2’s 5pm news to find out how Andy Murray had fared in the Australian Open.

I was amazed to hear not a word about it. Clearly Andy had therefore lost – but by how wide a margin, and when?

This may all have seemed old news to those compiling the report, but it certainly wasn’t to me.