Daring to be different

Mark Lamarr's current incarnation on Radio 2, "God's Jukebox", is set to end before the New Year.  In his email to friends and listeners he says  "It’s become obvious over the last year the station has become much less interested in non mainstream music, and my position there has been extremely uncomfortable".   This was, dear listeners, the Radio 2 that was ready to embrace the best of 6Music.  So let's see what emerges in the New Year, in the Saturday to Sunday midnight to 0300 slot.

• 1500 Friday update (via Media Guardian)  Shennan countered Lamarr's claims, saying the station's music offering had "never been stronger, more diverse or more popular....Next year we have plans to broaden it still further with more genres and new presenters. It is a unique and distinctive station. I'm sorry Mark is leaving at Christmas. He wanted an earlier slot and decided that he would leave when that request was not granted. We wish him well and the door is never closed."