‘Radio is a way of binding people together,’ says Lesley Douglas, former Controller of Radio 2 in a Guardian magazine cover-story this week celebrating the richness of British radio.
‘Radio is a way of binding people together,’ says Lesley Douglas, former Controller of Radio 2 in a Guardian magazine cover-story this week celebrating the richness of British radio. It could be the answer to our editor’s quest for what it means to be British, since 90 per cent of us are supposed to listen at some time to a radio station of some kind, whether it be local and illicit or the behemoths created by the BBC. Douglas was writing about what it takes to be a radio presenter. Unsurprisingly, she made no mention of either Jonathan Ross or Russell Brand (whose unruly antics cost her the job), but she concluded that the truly great radio voices, such as Terry Wogan, ‘make the everyday better’ by talking about the mundane matters of his life and making them seem universal.
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