Like Rob, I was never ever impressed with Mike Harding's show any time I ever took the trouble to have a listen. The live Mike Harding I saw and loved in Lancashire folk clubs all those years ago was witty, irreverent, musically talented and huge fun. The Mike Harding show was dull as ditchwater, like most of Radio 2's output. He'd been doing it for 15 years, for heaven's sake - why all the fuss about a change - particularly if, as it's been hinted at, he didn't even get to choose the playlist?

The anger seems to have been generated not so much at the fact that he's going, but in the manner of his going - against his wishes, apparently and somewhat impersonally. So - if he'd gone agreeably and with a nice little cuddle from Smooth Ops management, it would all have been OK, eh?