I only listen in when my son plays all his folk stuff. I know nothing much of who or what just like listening. Every week for sometime I have listened to MH and found it fine although maybe narrowed by his station.
I thought MR was clearly staged and planned to wash all memory out. It will not be MR organizing it all surely it will be down to R2 to cover themselves and prove their decision to put in a middle ground popular DJ , so they are bound to dig in to their resources a bit to try and make an impact maybe- tried too hard to prove a point? they must feel insecure? Am sure MH also would have not passed up the live oportunites etc, if it had been on offer.
Personally I listen to the radio a lot and it gets a bit monotonous if the same voice and style begins to colour everything the same. I would prefer variation and am happy to listen to either but I did think MH seemed to have more heart felt passion for his subject which came through and not so much of the pop stuff.
Anyway done now so that's that. Don't mind MR.