Absolutely!

Well said!

why oh why do we all get hung up on whats in “the papers” they are a past news media and can only pick on celebs as easy targets bouycot them

Well, in an economy drive at Windy Towers, I am going to see if the Daily Mail is a cheaper alternative to loo roll. !

Well Said !! …And Chris is doing a Fine Job,Some people are Never happy unless there’s a Profit in it…

I suggest those TOGS allegedly having “difficulty” with Chris Evans think of him as having “regenerated” from STW….in a Dr Who type way. Now that, thankfully due to cultural tolerance, grown men can meet in pubs and talk openly of their mutual fondness for “The Doctor” without fear of ridicule it could be helpful to see Chris as the new “Breakfast Doctor”. New Doctor.Matt Smith, will have the same hurdles to overcome when he replaces the previous tenant at Easter. Whether you judge Chris as your Sylvestor McCoy or Tom Baker remains to be seen. He needs time. Never forget STW emerged from Derek Jameson. Anyway I’m off to listen to my latest CD purchase..The Dollar Album! I await the hits of Trevor Horn on an upcoming “Janet and John”.

Top man that Chris Evans. He had a big pair of shoes (and beige cardigans !!) to fill and he’s doing a grand job. It’s about time the tabloid press started reporting real news for a change.

Love Chris, love Sir Tel. The world is a much better place for having them both in it and I’m sublimely happy to wake up to clp and have a Sunday treat of Terry. Tabloids are poison. Chris and Terry rock. Xx

Chris Evans is doing a GREAT job. Love his show.

I am sorry to tell you but I am now a COG. TOGdom was good while it lasted but being a COG has taken years of me, never a bad thing.

Two hours on a Sunday is not enough but it is better than nothing at all!!
Chris should be encouraged, the new show is great.

Guess which paper the story is in – the Daily Mail! They can’t seem to be able to read anything that doesn’t fit with what they think their audience like.

Sorry but I have to disagree with most of you. I switched on, I listened, I don’t understand the humor , I wish I did cause mornings are no longer filled with gleefull laughter in our house. my husband and I just look at each other and shrug, is it us!? [OK you don’t have to ancwer that one.]

I too can’t agree totally with most of you … I am a fan of Chris – just not in the morning. Too much going on, too ‘hyper’ for breakfast time. This last week has been so much better with Richard Allinson. Chris was wonderful on Drivetime – wish he was back there.

What I would like to hear @ Breakfast, is more of Chris on his own, and therefore less of his contributors (and I don’t mean eradicate any banter between all 4 of them), and fewer fixed spots (Mystery Guest, Top Tenuous for example). Let’s relax more!
Having said the above I DO LIKE Chris!

I’m with Kay Ninegriptight on this one. I didnt mind Chris at 5 pm but he is just too bouncy and squeaky for my early mornings. A bit like replacing Winnie-the-Pooh with Tigger really. Mellow, reflective and just plain daft is what was needed and the controller of BBC should have though ot those qualities when replacing STW. I’d have liked a week each of several candidates (that’s how we got Michael Ball after Sir Mike Parkinson I remember) and then a public vote. Would have been fun as well as keeping the listening figures up. Too late now and though I would like to accede to Terry’s request and I do feel sorry for Chris his breakfast show just isnt for me.

If Evans ditched the live Audience Participation and stopped shouting then things might be better, I’ve moved to 3Breakfast instead, Last week with RA was fantastic, the wrong guy got the Fulltime gig in my view.

I too have to say that Mr Evans is not, imho, a suitable replacement for STW. It’s rather like replacing a silk shirt with a suit of coarse sandpaper. This last week has been superb and I have been able to listen to radio 2 again. Next week it’s back to Spire FM.

Well said, Sir Terry. He’s him and you’re you. Good luck with the rest of the Sunday season and one more thing – you and Chris are both absolutely on the right side of the Radio 2 debate. Radio 2 is for people who like good music and enjoy the presence of the entertainers, not over-35s or over-65s or over-75s. All the family from cradle to crypt should enjoy it.

I’m enjoying Chris’ show. Yes I didn’t like the phone-ins although strangely I find the megaphone a nice two minute feature, there is, after all, an extra 30 minutes to fill. The range of music is still there, the interaction between the team has come on leaps and bounds in the last month.

I don’t care much for the Sports Challenge but think this an advertising technique with the videos more than anything else. Likewise, Top Tenuous seems a bit pointless to me, but they both feature in a part of the show that only hear once a week, so no big deal.

Wrong Bongs are self-deprecating and a bit of fun, although there could probably be five or six a day not just the three.

I do feel the emails have been dumbed down though, but this hasn’t stopped me from attempting to raise my game to that level and write in. It’s up to the listeners to influence that issue.

Chatting over background music probably increases the perception of loudness, but that’s what volume controls are for.

Chris if you read this bring back Ask Lynn, that’ll divert a lot of flak and improve the correspondence no end.

Sorry,I can’t stand Chris Evans in the morning. I tape Weekend Wogan on Sunday,and play it back between 7.30 and 9.30 every morning. Problem solved. Richard Allinson is the man for the job.

It’s always hard to accpet a new presenter when they move in. I thought it was a mistake when Johnnie Walker left drivetime, but Chris made it a great show. It was part of my daily routine, but it’s still there (just at the other end of the working day) Richard Allinson is a good DJ who plays the right music but it’s not the same as having a strong character like Terry or Chris Evans who build a show around them. Of course I miss the old breakfast show, but at least i was in the audience yesterday to see the great man himself on stage at the radio theatre with his sidekicks Alan Boyd and that Wogan bloke.!
Critics may be right that there are too many features in the new breakfast show, as Tel had the talent and stamina to make a single thread of an idea last for hours (with the help of the emails from the listeners)
Chris will be ok, it’s coming together nicely. Please don’t give up on him yet.

give chris a chance, yes i do miss him in drivetime but only for personally reasons due to the schol run/walk we dont get to listen as much to him, my three children enjoy his music. and the liveliness of the show I work with some TOGS and they like Chris and his new show, keep up the good work

Sir T and Mr Evans are both brilliant in different ways, but the BIG problem with the new show – the elephant in the room; the problem that just won’t go away – is that there wasn’t enough of a gap between the two styles for people to properly accept a new person taking a role that people have come to treasure.

Beyond that, Chris Evans is so-good, that I can see him rapidly being asked to present on television.

Put the two points together, and, with the best will in the world, i can’t see him lasting a year in the breakfast slot………………………………

With the greatest respect to Sir Terry, I know we’ve been asked to give the new R2 breakfast guy a chance.

Problem is, for many years, we’d been blessed with the very best breakfast show on R2, and who ever took over the slot couldn’t come close to giving us what we were used to.
Everyone is different, I know, and we couldn’t and shouldn’t expect to get what we were used to.

We must be grateful to Sir Terry for all that he has given us, listen in between 11 and 1 every Sunday, and keep playing the podcasts and recordings

As I said, everyone is different, I’m only in my early forties, but have to say that the gentle fun and humour of the WUTW show was just right for me on my way to work – these days it’s a bit of R2, bit of a CD, bit of R2, bit of a CD, etc. CDs didn’t get used before!

Congratulations on the latest award. Pity some journalist sought to make it a negative.

Any chance of a roll of honour on your website so we can all keep up. I was looking forward to your image replacing Elgar on the twenty pound note. However, my research shows that Bank of Scotland one hundred pound notes feature a vignette of leisure and tourism. So, I now eagerly await a depiction of your one hundred foot putt on some good Scottish currency……whilst it still has value.

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Richard Allinson last week and prefer his delivery of the Programme. Chris was great in Drivetime but I can’t follow him in the morning – too frantic and I miss half the words and bit banal too. Probably drinking too much coffee!! I wasn’t impressed with his put down on Richard on his website either! I hope when Chris burns out they give Richard the job.

Richard Allinson did a good job and was really a far more worthy successor to Sir terry. Evans has little idea and his skills extend to merely linking many banal segments – if linking is not too strong a word.

I hope that the rumours of his unhappiness are correct and that he will soon be gone – if ‘face’ will allow it and the BBC climbs down gracefully.

I used to listen to Today on R4 until a few years ago but it became just too depressing so I moved to TW. Heaven restored! When TW “retired” I gave CE a chance but he is just too annoying and now I don’t listen to Radio 2 anymore at breakfast time – I return to the fold for KB. The Q1 RAJAR figures will be interesting – perhaps CE will be successful or perhaps he won’t – but I know won’t be listening to him anymore.

Sorry, but I`m with the other doubters. Did give Chris Evans the benefit of the doubt (for 2 weeks). Couldn`t stand it any longer than that, now listen to local radio for the duration of the morning. Interesting chat, easy going music, NO shouting, No mania and NO talking over the music. Bliss.
I miss you Sir Terry x

Anyone is going to be different from Terry and we all knew mornings would never be the same again when Wake up to Wogan finished, but Chris is doing a really good job in incredibly difficult circumstances. I have been listening to Chris in the mornings and enjoying his show, however when he was away I switched off because Richard A was dull and ungracious I only heard him say he was standing in for Chris once – all other stand INS mention the regular host regularly.

To me! the radio lost it’s smile when Sir Tel’ left, I miss being tickled into the day . a happy
kickstart to the morning made me feel the world wasn’t all doom and gloom, and that the
British public hadn’t lost it’s sense of humour after all. Tel’ was the perfect antidote to the
soul sapping news reports, providing a balance. The dictators at the BBC knew perfectly well who should replace Terry, His regular stand in Jonny Walker!!! who has a
similar lightness of touch. But No!! he isn’t young or edgy. and we! the license fee payers
will listen to our betters. and they in their wisdom let Chris Evans loose, that hot needle
in the ear….and ME!! to protect my senses and my hearing, has to switch off.