The Nick Barraclough Country Show has been gone for about 2 years. That was when the time of the folk show changed. Mike Harding now has to take the Chris Evans audience and keep them happy until Radcliffe and Maconie arrive. It is actually quite illuminating to see how often Chris Evans does his bit to get people in the right mood with the last track he plays having perhaps a "folk" flavour. He does his bit for "follow through" quite often.

I've never found Leonard at all open to entering into a dialogue with the audience. Like many, he thought that all he had to do was to smarm up to Lesley Douglas and Smooth Ops paycheck was assured. That has all gone back to square one and they now all have to butter up a different controller. You can almost hear the fearful, almost tearful comments of certain producers and presenters in the press and on air that their special relationship with Ms Douglas has gone down the plughole.