Well now, shows I'd recommend depends on who I'm recommending them to, I guess. Because I like the breakfast show, but then I find the two Phil(l)s funny in their misanthropic little ways, and I know a lot of people don't.
Andrew Collins was a bad fit in drivetime (though now they have Lamacq and I'm not convinced it's an improvement) but his Sunday show has had some amusing interviews with lesser lights of the codger indie scene (think, e.g.: wossisname from Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine) and Marc Riley can throw up some interesting stuff too.
So thinking about it, what I tend to like is not so much the music(*) (though the breakfast show is pretty much guaranteed a Coldplay-free zone :D ) but the chit-chat from an assortment of amusing and decaying Fifty Quid Men (and women). You can download a podcast of a week's collected chitchat here and see what you think.
(*) We've set up the Bug to record a couple of latenight R1 shows and Dave Green's weekly 6M breakfast guest slot.
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Andrew Collins was a bad fit in drivetime (though now they have Lamacq and I'm not convinced it's an improvement) but his Sunday show has had some amusing interviews with lesser lights of the codger indie scene (think, e.g.: wossisname from Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine) and Marc Riley can throw up some interesting stuff too.
So thinking about it, what I tend to like is not so much the music(*) (though the breakfast show is pretty much guaranteed a Coldplay-free zone :D ) but the chit-chat from an assortment of amusing and decaying Fifty Quid Men (and women). You can download a podcast of a week's collected chitchat here and see what you think.
(*) We've set up the Bug to record a couple of latenight R1 shows and Dave Green's weekly 6M breakfast guest slot.