Round the clock

A contributor to the "BBC Radio Forum" discussion board - usually well-informed - says Radio London is returning to a full 24 hour schedule of live broadcasting. Overnight shows were closed with some brou-ha-ha in 2013, but slowly the gap (filled with re-broadcasts of 5Live) has been reduced to around two hours. On the back of figures at a 15-year-high, it looks like the gap might well close very soon, at what's being called marginal cost.

Meanwhile, at Radio 2, Bob Shennan is inserting two hours of repeats into his overnight schedule. "We have had to make some difficult decisions in light of our reduced budgets", he announced in June. One petition of protest is up to 2,250 signatures.  Clearly live overnights proved more than a marginal cost, out of a Radio 2 service budget of £46 million for 2014/5.