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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Snobby BBC execs have wrecked Radio 2 - just like the axing of Paul O'Grady and Simon Mayo, listeners were cheated out of the last 18 months of Steve Wright's life
Some of the best-loved voices on the Beeb have been kicked off Radio 2, including Simon Mayo and Ken Bruce. Listeners are expected to tune in to their replacements without noticing the difference.
How much happier everyone would have been if he could have kept on with his much-loved On The Wireless show until the end – everyone, that is, except a few overpaid suits on the top floor in Broadcasting House, who imagine listeners either don’t care or can’t tell the difference between O’Grady and Beckett. At the other end of the technical scale, there’s the veteran David Hamilton and his contemporaries on Boom Radio, including Roger Day, Simon Bates and Nicky Horne – familiar voices all, whose presence can be a comfort. His annual countdown of the ten greatest heavy anthems was a national event, even if we did all know that Layla by Derek and the Dominos, Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd and Led Zep’s Stairway to Heaven were guaranteed to comprise the top three.
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