I listen to Radio 4 whenever I'm driving and those programs pop up during my day and I've never noticed what your speaking about, one thinks that your concentrating to much on the Radio and not on editing the magazine

Martin P

I only listen to commercial radio in the car and coincidentally noticed today that jingles are back. I suppose successful adverts get copied.

You get fashions in TV too. I remember when almost all US TV (as shown in the UK) consisted of Westerns. Then cowboys were dumped in favour of lawyers who got pushed out by SciFi, detectives and then police procedurals. After that an outbreak of soaps involving the super-rich, hospital dramas, and then forensic crime. Not saying it's bad, many of the inspired shows are well made. Although the original CSI was first and best of the genre, I'm fond of NCIS and 'Bones' as well. I just wish programmes wouldn't travel in convoy, I like a bit of variety.

Less creditable are the floods of copycat antique, cookery, gardening, cleaning, reality, scripted reality, and house makeover programmes on British telly. Boring and repetitive. And while I'm in rant-mode, it's bleedin' obvious the main problem in Hell's Kitchen is that effing bloke who mismanages the enterprise, one G Ramsay…

What I want to see is on TV is a film crew turning up at a tidy persons home with an 'expert' who announces that tidiness is a mental illness, and a team who 'help' by filling the entire house with junk from a skip…

Dave

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Neil writes "Working from home I listen to a lot of Radio, chiefly Planet Rock….. ".
Have you tried Forces Radio BFBS for that sort of ad-free music and more?
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(Well, ad-free apart from a bit of self-promotion and invites to join up !)

My gripe is BBC TV and their ever-increasing amount of self-advertising between programmes. Also their regular annoyance of advertising masquerading as news. They introduce some untopical item on BBC TV News and you know it's going to end with "…..and you can see more on that by watching ***** on BBC1 tonight"

Curmudgeon. defn: a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually grumbling old man.

I don't listen to music very much just Radio 3 and Classic FM sometimes but mainly listen to Radio 4, LBC and Radio4 Extra. on DAB.

I'd definitely watch that. I could even be that 'expert'

Another annoying thing that sort of qualifies as a trend is the playlists. Ok I understand that a new release will get more plays because it is new but when the brief is music from the last 50 years why do they have to keep repeating the same version if the work has been covered often. Are they on a kick-back or reduced broadcast fees for bulk plays? I can sometimes hear the same thing played by two DJs in their separate stints in my 90 minute commute, then again in the evening return journey.
Ok some covers demonstrate why a particular artist didn't make a hit but equally the 'popular' version is often only successful because the performer's groupies would buy anything. Maybe 5 versions of Beethoven's fifth sound much alike to my inexpert ear but songs and choral music is often the subject of widely differing interpretations.

Couple of years ago when my car only had AM I could only get Absolute. That pretty much ensured that the afternoon commute repeated most of what was in the morning commute.
I used to work with a guy who was at that fateful electrocution concert.

Its a funny thing but although a sucker for most radio comedy (except Hancock – I don't know why) I cannot stand either waking up to talking or listening to talking in the car so Classic FM is the choice. However my brain seems to self protect and after a few hearings the Ads, while annoying to listen to at first, seem to me to become blanked out after a few listens – Sensory mediation I believe it is called.