Radio 2 is a stale boys' club – give a woman the breakfast show

With Chris Evans off to Virgin, Radio 2 has a chance to promote women beyond weather girls – and Sara Cox, Alice Levine and Liza Tarbuck should be in the mixWe are a nation attached to radio voices. Millions of us get up and go to work with them, and come home and cook dinner as they prattle away in the background. They are as familiar and immovable as the stains on our kitchen worktops. Therefore the news that Chris Evans, the first human voice that over nine million people hear on weekday mornings, is leaving the Radio 2 breakfast show for a new presenting gig at Virgin, is a big deal. His style – chirpy chitchat, tooth-rattling jingles, honking horns – isn’t my cup of tea, but his show’s success is unprecedented. It is a behemoth of national radio, leaving all other breakfast shows trailing in its wake – and so the question of who will replace him is huge. Continue reading…
Via: Radio 2 is a stale boys' club – give a woman the breakfast show