What was or is your favourite radio show?

Watching Mark Cagney on TV right now, brings me back to 80's radio - Night Train with Cagney was a great show as he played mostly non-single album tracks and 12 inch versions - think he started around 11.30 or so and brought you nicely to sleep around 1.45am when 2FM or whatever it was called back then, went off the air -if I remember rightly.

Benicetomonty

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Watching Mark Cagney on TV right now, brings me back to 80's radio - Night Train with Cagney was a great show as he played mostly non-single album tracks and 12 inch versions - think he started around 11.30 or so and brought you nicely to sleep around 1.45am when 2FM or whatever it was called back then, went off the air -if I remember rightly.

I despise everything and everyone on Newstalk..except Moncrieff.

manbitesdog

Benicetomonty wrote: »

I despise everything and everyone on Newstalk..except Moncrieff.

Moncrieff’s voice makes me want put my foot through the radio.

Benicetomonty

manbitesdog wrote: »

Moncrieff’s voice makes me want put my foot through the radio.

P.J Gallagher has the same effect on me.

whisky_galore

The death notices.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Dear Frankie, RTE in the 60s. Always good for a laugh. An Agony Aunt solving the romantic problems of the nation.

“It may not be your problem today, but it could be someday"

ILoveYourVibes

None they all talk too much. Shut up and play music.

Tell me how

Different shows at different times (some no longer with us unfortunately)

Pat Kenny - Newstalk
Off the Ball - Newstalk
Music from the Movies - Lyric FM
Drama on One - RTE Radio 1
Electric Disco - 2FM
The Main Room with Dashka - Spin South West
Sunday Supplement with Sam Smyth - Today FM

Ipso

Tommy Vance, Virgin 1215. Dad Rock on Today FM used to be good.

'Scrap Saturday' didn't pull any punches, compared to the softball political satire of today.

Tell me how

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'Scrap Saturday' didn't pull any punches, compared to the softball political satire of today.

Was it that different to Callans Kicks?

I only vaguely remember it but my recollection of it leads me to think Callan's show is similar in tone?

manbitesdog

Donal Dineen was good. Alison Curtis I liked too.

RMAOK

manbitesdog wrote: »

Alison Curtis I liked too.

Do you dance around the kitchen with kids?

nullzero

manbitesdog wrote: »

Moncrieff’s voice makes me want put my foot through the radio.

Moncrieff used to be a great listen.
Not the same since he ran off on the missus and got his producer pregnant.

Greyfox

None, their all crap

mfceiling

Chris Evans on the breakfast show on bbc radio 1 back in the mid 90's. It was brilliant. He would turn up drunk, have mad quizzes/slots and generally had a laugh every day.
I remember he did a thing called ginger loans where people could write in asking for a loan. The only thing was the loan had to be for a pound or less!! People sent in some seriously mad requests.

Also Pete Tongs essential selection on a Friday night back then was special if you liked dance music. The essential mix also had some brilliant DJ's on it.

manbitesdog

RMAOK wrote: »

Do you dance around the kitchen with kids?

I’m afraid I don’t get that, it was The Last Splash on Sunday nights.

Thelonious Monk

Does anyone remember in about 98/99 there was this totally out there mental show after Adrian Kennedy on FM104? I can't remember the name of the presenter but all kinds of absolute loons used to call up and it turned into this totally abstract off the wall show. I don't think it lasted too long but it was crazy.

manbitesdog

nullzero wrote: »

Moncrieff used to be a great listen.
Not the same since he ran off on the missus and got his producer pregnant.

I never even knew! He cones across as very brittle and defensive.

Tell me how

mfceiling wrote: »

Chris Evans on the breakfast show on bbc radio 1 back in the mid 90's. It was brilliant. He would turn up drunk, have mad quizzes/slots and generally had a laugh every day.
I remember he did a thing called ginger loans where people could write in asking for a loan. The only thing was the loan had to be for a pound or less!! People sent in some seriously mad requests.

Also Pete Tongs essential selection on a Friday night back then was special if you liked dance music. The essential mix also had some brilliant DJ's on it.

Back around 2005, Radio 1 used to have a Sunday evening dance show (It might even have been hosted by Pete Tong) and people returning from clubbing around the UK would ring in and ask for tracks to be played. Used to love that when I lived there.

TheRiverman

John Clarke when he was on 2fm.He used to be on from 11-1 on Friday nights and in later years Ireland's Favourite Jukebox on Sundays.Brilliant shows.

TheRiverman

Greyfox wrote: »

None, their all crap

They're.

siblers

Jenny Houston on 2fm mid 2000s. Played class indie music, she introduced me to The National.

Cormac Battle's Battle Axewas brilliant too, had a great choice of alternative music

antimatterx

My favourite was the FM104 Phoneshow. Adrian was fantastic. His new morning show on 98FM is decent, but it's not the same.

Currently I love Ivan Yates on newstalk. Fantastic broadcaster.

antimatterx

nullzero wrote: »

Moncrieff used to be a great listen.
Not the same since he ran off on the missus and got his producer pregnant.

Never knew that. My two brothers were in school with his daughters and all. Not sure how my mum never picked up on that gossip lol

ToddyDoody

The Full Irish ie. when Ryan Tubridy did breakfast on 2fm was good circa 2001 - 2004.
I used to like 'The House Party' on 2fm with Damien McCaul circa 2002 - 2003.
Also before that maybe 96 / 97 there was The Hotline with Tony Fenton.

odyssey06

Both sadly gone...
Sunday Morning Coming Down presented by Pearl on Phantom fm. Perfect mellow playlist.

Dalys 80s on RTE Gold.
Took in the music, ads, news segments and tv of the era.

Birneybau

siblers wrote: »

Jenny Houston on 2fm mid 2000s. Played class indie music, she introduced me to The National.

Cormac Battle's Battle Axewas brilliant too, had a great choice of alternative music

BBC 6 music essentially plays nothing but alternative music, explicitly so from 19:00-midnight. That's when my 2 current (and for the last few years) are on, Marc Riley 19:00-21:00, Gideon Coe 21:00-00:00. I cannot recommend them enough and the BBC iPlayer radio is available here, not region blocked.

6Music also gave us possibly my favourite radio show ever, Adam And Joe.

razorblunt

I don’t listen to the radio consistently, but Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 2 has a great show in the evenings.

Scala is a new British radio station available online, DAB and sky and all that an dit’s absolutely brilliant.

Steviewinger

Prisoner request show that used to be on club FM 106.4 on a Sunday night. This one is for jayo in the joy, up the c landing .

JoseJones

Liveline... Genius comedy at times!

ToddyDoody

Steviewinger wrote: »

Prisoner request show that used to be on club FM 106.4 on a Sunday night. This one is for jayo in the joy, up the c landing .

Good exercise for the reptilian part of the brain.

Birneybau

I forgot, and I don't care if I'm judged :pac:, but Gerry Ryan is still missed by me. The radio show, everything else can feck off.

whisky_galore

Used like Ray D'Arcy before he started riding his co host and he became the conscience of the nation.

antimatterx

The Open Mic on FM104 on Sunday nights back about 10 years ago was fantastic.

Gynoid

John Kelly 7-9 pm on Lyric and John Creedon 8-10 pm RTE1. Love them shows.

ToddyDoody

whisky_galore wrote: »

Used like Ray D'Arcy before he started riding his co host and he became the conscience of the nation.

In fairness, I think she rode him.

dxhound2005

Fighting Talk on 5 Live.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04zsmg0

tayto lover

The Kennedys of Castleross.

NasserShammaz

The rattle bag

_Brian

Anton Savage was very good on Today FM.

cj maxx

I used to love Dave Fanning , when he played music and didn't talk

Heighway61

The Night Train with Mark Cagney - 2FM.
The Mystery Train with John Kelly - Radio 1 then Lyric.
The South Wind Blows with Philip King - Radio 1.
Up All Night - BBC Radio 5live.

Steviewinger

Anything donal dineen does. Especially here comes the night

gammygils

siblers wrote: »

Jenny Houston on 2fm mid 2000s. Played class indie music, she introduced me to The National.

Cormac Battle's Battle Axewas brilliant too, had a great choice of alternative music

Yes. Jenny Houston's show was called "The Annex" Was on Saturday evening. Was repeated on a weekday night when I was doing Nightshift. Used to love that

branie2

The Gerry Ryan show on 2fm

Degag

Greyfox wrote: »

None, their all crap

They really are. Whoever in RTE thought it was a good idea to put Doireann and Eoghan on at 7am in the morning should be shot.

I for one do not want to listen to them (or anyone for that matter) ROARING down the radio that early in the morning.

Psychlops

Love The Niall Boylan show.

Bobblehats

You couldn’t beat the pirate stations. Real dedicated music fans with their bags of rare grooves broadcasting from their sheds. When they regulated that shít they killed radio

JohnnyFlash

John Creedon’s show. Excellent music, and he has a lovely way about him.

Bobblehats

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

John Creedon’s show. Excellent music, and he has a lovely way about him.

You’d have liked the old guy that used to do Late Date