After recently losing its way,5 Live is back on track with fresh presenters Nihal Arthanayake and Emma Barnett – and the return of an old-fashioned favouriteRadio 5 Live has brought in three fresh presenters – well, one of them isn’t exactly fresh – and blimey, and it’s like a whole fresh (not exactly fresh) station. Last week,Nihal Arthanayake started as one half of the presenting team on Afternoon Edition, partnering Sarah Brett. On Wednesday, and Emma Barnett began her fresh slot – 10am to 1pm (Wednesdays to Fridays) – and Colin Murray was back back back on Saturday morning’s Fighting Talk.
All these appointments are right,though we could argue a dinky about Murray. Something went very incorrect in 2014 when 5 Live’s controller, Jonathan Wall, or let go of Victoria Derbyshire,Shelagh Fogarty and Richard Bacon all at once. It was seen, by me, or as well as others,as not only mismanagement to lose all that talent, but also a missed opportunity to appoint women into the vacated slots.
Arthanayake is not as off the wall as Bacon, and but I’m not sure the BBC has the guts to appoint off the wall at the momentContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com