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Claudia Winkleman admits the real reason she’s cutting back her workload, and it’s a growing trend among parents

The Strictly co-host is making a huge change to her workload

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Romesh Ranganathan, the comedian set to replace Claudia Winkleman on BBC Radio 2

How the maths-teacher-turned-comedian became the busiest man in British showbiz

The Independent UK

Claudia Winkleman reveals emotional reason she’s quitting Saturday show on BBC Radio 2

‘Strictly Come Dancing’ host will present her last show in March 2024, with Romesh Ranganathan taking over the time slot the following month

The Independent UK

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Flexible workspace provider inks deal for BBC Wogan House site in London

The Wogan House office building in Fitzrovia that the BBC is exiting and has been used by some of the Radio 2 and 6 Music programme teams, is set to get a revamp and become flexible workspace as part of a property deal agreed.

Evening Standard

Vernon Kay raises over £4m for BBC Children in Need as he completes Ultramarathon challenge

The Radio 2 presenter traveled on foot from Leicester to Bolton over four days

Evening Standard

What is Vernon Kay's challenge and how far is an ultramarathon?

In total the presenter will be running over 115 miles.

Evening Standard

BBC faces broad backlash over cuts to local radio output

Exclusive: Fallout includes anger from listeners, potential legal action and concerns from Ofcom

The Guardian - UK

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BBC Radio 2 show loses 1.3m listeners after Vernon Kay replaces Ken Bruce

Mid-morning programme now heard by 6.9m people as opposed to 8.2m who tuned in before veteran’s departure in March

The Guardian - UK

BBC local radio shows suffer drop in listeners over past two years

The average weekly listenership of local stations has slipped by 20% since 2021.

The Independent UK

FFS: Insiders Say Complaints About Russell Brand Were Never Escalated To BBC Higher Ups

Sources say a review into Brand's time at BBC has revealed the paper trail of complaints stops way too early.

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Russell Brand ‘exposed himself to woman then joked about it on Radio 2’

BBC investigating claims by woman that he flashed her then laughed about it on air

The Independent UK

BBC boss on Russell Brand’s Radio 2 exit: ‘We’re always going to have questions’

Tim Davie was the corporation’s director of audio when Brand left his Radio 2 show in 2008 after leaving a ‘lewd’ voicemail for Andrew Sachs.

The Independent UK

The brave victims of Russell Brand’s misogyny deserve full support. This time, let’s get it right

The new claims made me think about the media’s treatment of the woman he famously humiliated on Radio 2, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK

Russell Brand ‘offers to take naked assistant to meet Jimmy Savile’ in resurfaced interview

The call on Radio 2 was aired five years before Savile’s horrific history of sexual abuse came to light

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Russell Brand: In Plain Sight review – so many red flags ignored for so long

From demeaning sexual remarks on radio to offering his assistant naked to Jimmy Savile, every disturbing detail of this cogent documentary makes it mind-boggling that these alleged abuses have taken so long to surface

The Guardian - UK

Sunday with Rev Kate Bottley: ‘I make food when people are sad’

The priest and presenter on alarms clocks and feeding her flock

Evening Standard

‘Praying for her’: Rylan Clark reveals his mother Linda has been rushed to hospital

The presenter left worried as the 71-year-old underwent emergency surgery after a serious fall

Evening Standard

BBC Radio 2’s Tony Blackburn, 80, reveals he was hospitalised with sepsis and pneumonia

When his family gathered around his hospital bedside earlier this year, he realised how unwell he was

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Evening Standard

OPINION - Have you noticed? The Lionesses have smashed football’s rainbow ceiling

On Sunday at 11am, history is tantalisingly close to being made in Sydney, as the England football team take on Spain, playing for the first English World Cup win since that seismic summer of 1966. Don’t say you won’t be watching. Everybody will. By Sunday morning, a time traditionally reserved…

The Guardian - UK

‘Gina G makes me mince to the dancefloor’: Owain Wyn Evans’s honest playlist

The DJ, drummer and former weatherman on buying Gangsta’s Paradise on vinyl, killing it at karaoke, and the pop belter that was robbed at Eurovision

The Guardian - UK

From weird nostalgia to weak formats, 6 Music is having an identity crisis

In trying to shake off the ‘6 Music Dad’ tag and not be thought of as an indie rock hub, the BBC radio station isn’t sure what it wants to be any more

The Independent UK

BBC Radio 2 loses a million listeners since Ken Bruce departure

It is the biggest quarterly drop for the station since before the pandemic

Evening Standard

BBC Radio 2 loses a million listeners after Ken Bruce departure

It is the biggest quarterly drop for the station since before the pandemic.

The Guardian - UK

BBC Radio 2 loses 1 million listeners since Ken Bruce departure

A large chunk of audience appears to have followed veteran presenter to rival Greatest Hits Radio, figures show

The Independent UK

BBC Radio 2 sheds a million listeners since Ken Bruce departure

It is the biggest quarterly drop for the station since before the pandemic.

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