FishFright
More wheels than sense
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Ken Bruce is leaving radio 2
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Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
Don't know, and don't care!
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biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Today is Ken's last working day at radio 2 hope you are all going to be listening
Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
- Location
- 52 Festive Road
Being interviewed and Pop Mastered on R4 in a minute
wiggydiggy
Guru
Definately, I read (probably here) that he was willing to carry on up to his end of contract but it was decided they want him to go now. Telegraph called it a 'shabby betrayal'
Thanks for heads up, listening on catch up now.
Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
- Location
- 52 Festive Road
True that he has been put on garden leave though & that he wanted to work out his contract.
wiggydiggy
Guru
I don't read it, just repeating something that was said on the R4 Today programme.
He's made a couple jokes about it, one couple have already messaged him to ask if he is on Gardening Leave can he come and sort out their garden
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matticus
Guru
That is so typical of the Bruce Era. Someone else wrote in:He's made a couple jokes about it, one couple have already messaged him to ask if he is on Gardening Leave can he come and sort out their garden
'They'll put a blue plaque above your desk - with a note saying "Don't worry , he's not still here." '
I mean, it's not Cook and Moore, is it?? But it's gentle, harmless humour. Which I think was the energy driving this show for the 600 years that his listeners have stuck with him.
I seem to be an outlier in disliking this show* The few times I ever caught it, I thought that Popmaster was a decent enough quiz but was ruined by the denouement.
If you couldn't name 3 hits by (for instance) Right Said Fred, all your prior work was for nought.
* as a boomer, I'm the right demographic; but I'm more of a 6Music sort of chap.
If you couldn't name 3 hits by (for instance) Right Said Fred, all your prior work was for nought.
* as a boomer, I'm the right demographic; but I'm more of a 6Music sort of chap.
wiggydiggy
Guru
Well I just finished the show (on catch up), no big speeches at the end though he did thank a few people (Inc BBC). They interspersed a few old clips of him but mostly it seemed a normal show which is how I think he wanted it.
Its a tougher than it seems, it is called Popmaster after all! Today's quiz went as far back as 1973 so that's 50 years of pop music I'd need to be familiar with to do well. I felt sorry for today's first contestant her mind seemed to go blank and she only got 3 points!
Its a tougher than it seems, it is called Popmaster after all! Today's quiz went as far back as 1973 so that's 50 years of pop music I'd need to be familiar with to do well. I felt sorry for today's first contestant her mind seemed to go blank and she only got 3 points!
On the turbo this morning listening to Spotify, but I tuned in to listen to pop master, the questions she got were really difficult, I did think are they setting all the hard questions they have missed over the years for this last show, but the second contestant had it a bit easier.
I didn't suggest it was easy, I thought I'd implied the opposite. To get through, you needed to demonstrate a wide knowledge of pop music, merely to be stymied at the end if you didn't know 3 hits by The Boo Radleys
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biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
A couple of weeks with ooh Gary Davis before Vernon takes over .
