There's a small amount of huffin' and puffin' from old timers about the promotion of Emma Barnett at Five Live, billed in The Times as "the first woman to present a solo show on Radio 5 Live, which was dubbed “Radio Bloke” after the departure of Victoria Derbyshire." I'm not sure it's wrong; I think the modifier is 'after the departure of Victoria Derbyshire' - she left the station in September 2014, hardly an aeon ago.
In the original 1994 weekday line-up only three presenters had their names on the mastheads - Midday with [Eddie] Mair, [Sybil] Ruscoe on Five, and [John] Inverdale Nationwide. Diana Madill presented 'The Magazine'.
I'd be more upset at two other inelegancies in The Times piece. "We meet in the Westminster radio studio where from January The Emma Barnett Show will be broadcast most mornings on Radio 5 Live." Surely Knutsford-based Controller Jonathan Wall hasn't shifted his views on London-based talent ?
And in the sub-head we find "now Emma Barnett is taking over Adrian Chiles’s prime time slot on Radio 5". She may be nicking a shift from him, but until I hear a jingle going "The Emma Barnett Show - today with Adrian Chiles", it's a hardly a major takeover.
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