Ok, there I am in the workshop, Classic FM gently playing something reasonably soothing, and then, and then! "This is a Government Announcement Etc, etc."

Whereupon the air turns blue, whilst I tell it to shut up. It doesn't, of course, but really, I feel that it's all gone overboard. Every 20 mins or so it all gets thrust down my ears, and I'm getting totally and completely fed up of it. The announcement, that is.

So, do the other radio programmes have this announcement? Not that I listen to them as I just cannot stand the inane prattling of idiotic youngsters who think their opinion is worth something. Neither can I stand the racket that purports to be modern music.

Anyone else p***** off with it?

Peter G. Shaw

Hi all,

No CD player, just an old, perhaps ancient, 40+ year old radio-cassette capable of picking up MW, LW & VHF in glorious stereo, not that with my hearing it makes much difference. In any case, making up my own music requires me to exercise selection. Which is why I prefer Classic FM – someone else makes the selection for me.

No intention of buying anything else. As a Yorkshireman, I'm naturally tightfisted. And anyway, I'm not allowed out! Government restrictions. So no Radio Scala, and Radio 3 doesn't float my boat particularly. Also, last I heard, DAB didn't work particularly well in some places whereas VHF FM apparently is generally received satisfactorily all over. Therefore I'm loth to buy something and then find it doesn't do the job it's supposed to do.

Nothing to do with football – a load of expensive over inflated egos punting an inflated bladder around. Nothing to do with a certain traffic accident, although I hope the idiot who caused it gets the book thrown at him.

Suspect Windy'd got it right – I'm just a grumpy old git!

Mike T.,

Yes I'm well aware of what's going on, but I really don't like being force fed this stuff ad infinitum. I'm not daft (in my opinion anyway) and I just don't need repetition. If others are too thick to take it in, well, for a start they wouldn't be listening to Classic FM anyway (they wouldn't be found dead listening to reasonable music) and if they haven't understood what's going on, then tough. Mind you, from what I've seen on the box, there are a lot of people who are too selfish to care anyway.

I made the same comments over the five, yes five, more or less identical letters I received last March telling me to go into isolation.

I just think that there comes a point when continuous repetition of something becomes counter-productive as well as being a right p-in-the-a.

And now to think about tea, both to eat and to drink.

Peter G. Shaw

Dave/SOD,

Yes, ok they are relatively inocuous, but try hearing it every 20 or 30 mins or so after a while one becomes first innured to it, and then secondly, absolutely fed up of it. That's what really gets me, the repeats, repeats, repeats, repeats. Something like the Chinese Dripping Water Torture. Which may be rather apt considering where it all started, and looks like it's kicking off again.

Mike E.,

I have very mixed feelings about the TV Licence. I haven't paid it for two, or is it three years now due to my age, but I note that the BBC wishes to bring it back. One part of me says No, scrap it, but then another part says, but what will replace it? Do we actually wish to have the BBC channels smothered with adverts? Frying pan & fire springs to mind here. As it is, we have a habit of recording anything we are interested in, and then fast forwarding over the ads, that is, as long as the DVR keeps working. But the trouble is, if we miss something on the programme schedule and find it later, then we might end up suffering the ads. And yes, I'm well aware that the ads pay for a lot of the present programs but overall, I have those very mixed feelings.

Peter G. Shaw