What was or is your favourite radio show?

Boring for many I’m sure, but James o’Brien On LBC is a gift for people like me. He can be grumpy, but does not suffer fools gladly either. A go to for me.

Irish radio is to be avoided end of. Far too sycophantic, and watching out for the so called opposition.

But we all have Listen Back don’t we? So can choose now.

The Beat Goes On, on Today FM Saturday and Sunday night presented by Kelly-Anne Byrne, one of the very best shows out there.

Small hours with Donal Dineen on today fm from midnight to 2am, stopped maybe I dunno 10 years ago now, but always listened, great show, great tunes, great presenter

tastyt wrote: »

I like moncrief and yates, not afraid to have an opinion.

But they hate others having an opinion,

When I started my company, I used to work late every evening, it was made tolerable with Dunphy's Last Word, it was top notch back then with Navan Man & Drunken Politician, some of the stuff was Gold, followed by John Kelly's Eclectic Ballroom, he played some mad stuff, would tangent off and god knows where he found some of the tunes,

Years after that I found Off the Ball, the originals, Joe Molloy is shocking and the leinster **** fest got too much to handle, 'I love you Brian',

It went from being a show with international stories of sports of all types to D4 centric, before that it had proper interviews with unknowns about their passion, a real education at times.

The only show I listen to daily now is Ronan Collins, similar to Larry Gogan - from the Shut the F... Up and play music style, Larry used to play 13-15 songs during the Golden Hour, it's under 10 an hour now for most music DJ's,

RTE Gold was my saviour up to 2 years ago but is ruined now with DJ's, before that it was just music.

While not a show, I do enjoy listening in on NewsTalk during week days with all their discussions... weekends it's just rubbish on sports though.

moby2101 wrote: »

Nonsense, the mg majority of people today listen to radio at some stage during the day

Ah stick to techno Moby

Chris Tarrant's breakfast show on Capital Radio in the late 80's/early 90's. The features that stick in my mind are Adventures of Dick Tarrant (private investigator), Your Embarrassing Tune featuring some truly atrocious punning on song titles, and the relaxed banter between Tarrant and Russ Kane in the Eye in the Sky (who was usually made to sound like he'd just staggered out of an all-night party and into the helicopter) and with Tarrant's sidekick Kara. Always cheery and a bit madcap but without the desperate hey-look-how-mad/witty-we-are rubbish you get from poor imitations these days. I can't listen to breakfast shows now. Give me wall to wall music or wall to wall news and just STFU about everything else.

Tell me how wrote: »

Can I also add Tom Dunne.

Loved his show on Today FM and still enjoy it on Newstalk. His warmth for music and musicians is infectious.

I find Tom Dunne a bit like Dave Fanning (but with much shorter interview questions): tremendous enthusiasm for his subject combined with a lack of ego. Pity I'm usually not into the music they play.

Alive Cooper's syndicated show isn't bad. Is it still on?

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

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.

Yes! It was all a bit crazy, for some reason one of the regular callers has always stuck in my mind. Think he was called Trebor and he'd come on saying Hey diddle diddle Trebor has a riddle.