In the end it's simply down to whether you like the presenter's style, since they both played exactly the same fairly narrow range of music. I'm sure it'll only be a matter of weeks before MR makes a few gaffes like MH did (which one's Sonny and which one's Brownie, Mike? And was Shawn Colvin really a bloke?). Then the anti-MR nitpickers will have a field day.

There is more interesting music to be found elsewhere on the radio (Late Junction for example) and even more so on the web. Hopefully Harding will get more interesting on his podcast now free of Radio 2 M.O.R. requirements. I'm about to download the latest Froots Radio, which, according to the blurb "goes from Jumbo Brightwell to the Dancing Did via the Comoros Islands". I don't expect to hear any of those on Radio 2 any day soon.