Richard Coles (Radio 4)leaves the BBC as he Refuses to work from Cardiff

[arista]

You Utter Slob.

Your show is once a week
on a Saturday
you could travel to Cardiff
for that.


[The Rev Richard Coles has said he
“felt rather hurtled towards the exit”
after leaving the BBC this year.
The broadcaster, 61, stepped down from his
Radio 4 programme Saturday Live in March
after 12 years.

It followed the BBC’s decision to relocate
the programme, which he co-hosts with Nikki Bedi,
from London to Cardiff.
He presented his final show on 25 March.

“I felt rather hurtled towards the exit.
Working for an organisation like the BBC,
you devote your energies to it
and yet they perhaps don’t always
respond with similar devotion,”
Coles told the Radio Times.

“It’s a great national institution,
and more power to its elbow.
It would just be nice if it could
distinguish that elbow from its
arse sometimes.”]


https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/may/30/rev-richard-coles-hurtled-towards-exit-bbc-radio-4


https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9acf18b0acade3d781b865f2c4c5a4d989afd50e/0_591_3536_2121/master/3536.jpg?width=620&quality=45&dpr=2&s=none
[The Communards: Richard Coles (left)
and Jimmy Somerville in 1985.]

[Oliver_W]

His old parish was literally a stone's throw from me, some of the old bods I know in Scouting know him personally :D

But anyway, it's radio. Some presenters do it from their home studio, why should he travel all that way?

[arista]

His old parish was literally a stone's throw from me, some of the old bods I know in Scouting know him personally :D

But anyway, it's radio. Some presenters do it from their home studio, why should he travel all that way?


It is a Saturday Morning Radio 4 Live
show, with top guests
so you need to meet them
in person.

It Covers News and Entertainment
it was popular
but then LBC Live and Times Radio Live
came along.

[Crimson Dynamo]

people listen to 5 live?


:shocked:

[arista]

people listen to 5 live?


:shocked:


On a Saturday
they are Sport
at this time.

[bots]

I wouldn't travel to Cardiff for a couple of hours show either

[arista]

I wouldn't travel to Cardiff for a couple of hours show either



Look, it is once a week
Only,
Saturday AM

[bots]

Look, it is once a week
Only,
Saturday AM

So what, it's inconvenient

[arista]

So what, it's inconvenient


High Paid BBC Job,
Once a week


He is a Lazy SLOB

[Crimson Dynamo]

surely he can do it from any studio, why Cardiff?

[bots]

there is zero need for a radio presenter to be in a specific studio, it's just arista being a dick

[arista]

surely he can do it from any studio, why Cardiff?


It has been done this way for years
The Presenters meet the Guest stars


In order to Cut Costs


His show is now made in Cardiff.

[Crimson Dynamo]

there is zero need for a radio presenter to be in a specific studio

Max Rushden, who does the late mornings show on Talksport with Barry Glendenning and Charlie Baker (weekend warm-up) and has now moved to Australia but continues to do the show in oz while Charlie and Barry are in LOndon

changed over seamlessly

[Livia]

It has been done this way for years
The Presenters meet the Guest stars


In order to Cut Costs


His show is now made in Cardiff.

How many guest stars will they get around Cardiff? Compared to London, I mean.

[Gusto Brunt]

I've always found him a very strange man. He spent years in pop music.

Then trained to be a vicar. As soon as he qualified and set himself up in a nice village as a vicar, he decided he really wanted to be a broadcaster, and has spent more time on the radio than in church.:joker::joker:

Madness.

[arista]

How many guest stars will they get around Cardiff? Compared to London, I mean.



The BBC will drive the guest stars there
and back, using public money


So no change