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Can't he leave 5-Lite as well as 6Music Cosmo?

How about including in your Best Bits Bacon's interview of Bryan Ferry where Richard mentioned how John Lennon had praised Ferry's cover of Jealous Guy (despite being dead)?

Can somebody correct me, isn't Five Live a speech radio station?

If so why is there now so much music played during the afternoon?

Is it because it is filler?

This is in addition to VD’s music review

I am a big John Lennon fan and hope that he is not turning in his grave at having the lightweight Richard Bacon doing a special programme on him....

Richard Bacon, Richard Bacon, Richard Bacon.

It's this suppose to be about John Lennon.

Why does everything related to Richard Bacon have to include Richard Bacon's name.

It's all about me, myself and I, isn't it.

''We had a tremendous response from Lennon/Beatles fans''

Oddly enough none have responded on this blog though, or indeed on the recent post on Coronation Street show.

The lack of response is palpable and begs the question are these posts a waste of resources?

The only popular blogs related to 5live are those asking for input and feedback but they are now closed, unsurprisingly.

Where are the satisfied listeners? Where are the compliments?

Twitter?

How I agree with you Fionn, these blogs are a complete waste of time and licence fee money and yes the only blogs that attract anykind of large response are the ones that indeed relate to criticism or feedback of 5live and those are either closed down or relentlessly moderated.Wasn't it the old Ö÷²¥´óÐã excuse that the old popular radio message board was closed down because it was used so infrequently and that it just wasn't worth keeping open?Well something like that or they didn't appreciate the comments.These blogs are responded too far less so god knows what the purpose of them is ?

There is one good outcome though in the fact that I have totally given up on 5live and no longer listen.I consider a national radio that treats its listeners and blog contributors as total imbeciles is no longer worthy of my support.

Binkie wheres your evidence that 5live "treats its listeners as imbecilles" take Nigels point above where he states Richard Bacons show had an excellant response from listeners, how are these people being treated as imbeciles? Or this another case of we blog contributers are not getting what we want so we will resort to petty name calling

fedster

'is this another case of we blog contribuers are not getting what we want so will resort to petty name calling'

no, all the bloggers on this site want is a person to have an on going conversation about five lives output. not to be asked for your thoughts and observations about the radio station and then be ignored, it's that basic, you ask for input and then ignore the input people arent going to be in a jolly mood, and this has been going on for a long while now.

the reason i think the blog is mismanaged/ignored is that the great dumbing down experiment isnt going to plan, case in point, i learnt from five live about a year and a half ago the quarks a categorised by flavours, this week i learnt on the weekly moan in that someone doesnt like dog poo being left in a bag in a tree.

if you find this sort of output interesting and fun five live is for you, myself i would rather drive my cab with the radio turned off.

i hope it turns around because it was a good radio station, but i just cant see it.
(and i didnt call anybody any names)

An excellent post by andashark.

I can't imagine what Fedsters problem is ? As he/she pays so much close attention to what we have to say and crops up so regularly each time I seem to post , you would have thought that he/she could have worked out the answers his/her own questions to us by now.

Be my guest and please do enjoy the ' pure eradite ' listening of 5live Fedster, you are clearly way within its target audience.

Dont flatter yourself Binkie, your posts arent that outstanding for me to as you so childishly put it "crops up so regularly each time I seem to post"

To be fair you are the one who made the somewhat arrogant remark that "listeners are being treated like imbeciles" who are you to say this? Are you the spokesperson for all 5live listeners?

he/she is for me

@Nigel Smith

Where are they all then?

As to being on here the Ö÷²¥´óÐã has closed down all routes of making any comment over time. On here the only replies one gets are like the one you gave. When questions are asked they are not answered....

With reference to Fedsters post 12...

..and he/she has the nerve to accuse others of petty name calling ?

If this is the kind of listener 5live now attracts then my decision to give up on it has been fully vindicated.

I already avoid 5live now like the plague but I'm also going to have to stop reading these posts because of the constant mention of Richard Bacon.
I agree whole heartedly with the sentiment expressed by the vast majority of the contributors to this blog and the thought of Bacon presenting a programme about John Lennon makes me shudder.
By the way Fedster-You are the perfect target listener for 5live these days.Poor grammar,poor spelling and an almost complete lack of punctuation.
You're welcome to it.

If anyone can be accused of arrogance, its 5live and the Ö÷²¥´óÐã .How have we arrived at a situation were a publicly funded organisation is so remote and distant from the people who actually pay for it and see anykind of criticism or input as hostile ? I find the whole situation quite incredible.

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Streaky got well and truly marmalised this PM by Julian Asange's lawyer. It was embarrassing listening in a way; Streaky was completely and utterly out of his depth (although not realising it at first). The lawyer (Mark Stephens) showed no mercy as he heaped humiliation upon Bacon. It was like men and boys - this man is ruthless. Worth a listen on iPlayer - think it was at just gone 3pm. Today.

If Bacon was a Beatle (of course he's bigger than that) he'd be Ringo; after they split-up.

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thousands of people read these blogs every week. 'the silent majority'

This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

Nigel; your post smacks a bit of toeing the party line. I think the 'suspicion' concept is more than justified by those of us who post in good faith. To get people out of the woodwork who suddenly come up with some learned prose does look a bit suspicious don't you think? Remember the two folks who popped up a few weeks ago to glorify listener figures or something similar? Big silence since hen but you had a pop at 'us' at the time.

Come on Stumps don’t be ridiculous, all posters post in good faith regardless of their views, to suggest otherwise is extremely patronising, as has been said time and time again, the negative, aggressive nature of the regular posters, is putting new posters of. Why is it that the comments from Twitter and text messages are on the whole positive but comments on this blog are dominated by you doom-mongers?

It’s a shame that most threads on this blog are hijacked by debates such as this, this blog has a lot of potential, so its sad to see, that its not reaching that potential!!

Nigel: thank you for your considered reply. We probably beg to differ but that is good in a free and fair world. It's good though that folks contribute to this and other blogs on a one off basis. I'll try not to be so blinkered in future


... unlike the author of post 27

Mr Stumps reading your posts and the constant mention of me in them is akin to a Rat crawling up my trousers, its very uncomfortable, having sad that i would encourage you to carry on, i do quite like a debate with someone with a completly opposite point of view, even though your point of view is somewhat flawed.

//is akin to a Rat crawling up my trousers// We'll have to take your word for it as I doubt that anyone else here has knowledge of that particular experience.

''5 live receives many more texts and Twitter replies''

I'm not calling you a liar Nigel but believe it or not I use Twitter and there was very little @Ö÷²¥´óÐã5live. Texts we will never know but please don't insult us.

I would love to hear Fedster's defence of 5live rather than picking fights.
The dissenters aren't doing it for giggles. I'm not 'angry from Tunbridge Wells'

I reserve the right to state my opinion on the only radio station that I could listen to. I'm done with it now.

P.S Thanks for posting Nigel

acres of text, unreplied to, rusting... If you're not interested in this blog Nigel then no-one else is