BBC Radio One - Blood on the Carpet (4)
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- The final part of the 'Blood on the Carpet'
documentary about BBC Radio One.
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Radio 1: they'll eat you for breakfast
Liz Kershaw
The Independent (London) January 18 2001
BLOOD ON THE CARPET: Walking with Disc Jockeys
was compulsive viewing.
And it should be compulsory for anyone with any silly ideas about becoming a radio presenter. Starry- eyed young hopefuls on media courses should be made to sit in front of a telly to study this dramatised account of the "revamping" of Radio 1 by Matthew Bannister and Trevor Dann. They would quickly come to their senses as they witnessed what a sordid, horrid and dangerous existence the "glamorous" life of a household name can really be. And how, even for a top jock, things can turn out to be rather less than great, mate.
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June 2008:
Trevor Dann is now Director of the Radio Academy.
Matthew Bannister is a presenter on the BBC World
Service and BBC Radio Four in the UK.
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What an over egotistical prat Evans was in those days!! I can't even believe the BBC even gave him another chance at Radio 2 after the way he treated the beeb.
I can recall that awful show of his on Channel 4. I used to watch it while taking the piss out of the Ginger Twat on IRC with others doing the same. Yes, he has had his successes over the years but Evans has always conspired to shoot himself in the foot at some point and while some folk think that the sun shines out of his arse, I still can't help remembering his Toothbrush days (I'd already stopped listening to Radio 1 by that time as I really couldn't stand their music policies, not to mention some of the new "talent" they brought in). Bannister and Dann may have had a point but they had a lousy way of making it.
But Ginger Binger had to tone it down moving to R2 because if he carried on in the way he did at R1 over at R2 the last chance saloon would have exploded and he'd be out of it totally.
Get rid of Chris Evans and bring back Jimmy Saville! Radio one is a kids program and Jimmy loves children!
Don't be daft!!
Oh my...I could not have known about Savile in 1968... Nobody could have known.
I’ve tried and tried to see the attraction to Chris Evans and I fail to see how he was so successful . Not only average but weak imho .
THE TRIVIAL WORLD OF BIG EGOS!
A truly wonderful programme which is rare today really of course too.
So they got rid of a load of unlistenable old tossers (DLT, Bates, et al) with massive egos who'd rather talk about their holidays than play music, and replaced them with... a load of unlistenable young tossers (Evans, Ball, et al) with massive egos who'd rather etc etc.
Oh, the irony!
A clash of overpaid egos .....70s and 80s radio one was superb.......total crap since.....end of story.
Totally agree. A revamp could have been done in better ways.
I agree. I loved Radio 1 in the 70s and 80s. Have not listened since, but then I am the audience they didn't want!
@@stevegarrod4764 You are all so right here I can tell you. Thank you indeed too!!
He comes across here as marginally less of a bell-end than Rudolf Hess. That can't all be the editing.
Radio 6 Music is what both Radio1 and Radio 2 could’ve been.
And even that has gone to the dogs. Getting rid of Keaveny, moving Radcliffe and Maconie to weekend mornings, and forcing Marc Riley & Gideon Coe to share a show together were all ridiculous decisions.
And don’t get me started on that “Artist In Residence” rubbish.
@@pionelpessi1022Jesus... the AiR thing is just terrible
can't fucking stand chris evans but having your own toaster doesn't sound exactly like the last word in megalomania.
Mark Radcliffe summed it up best when he said that he understood why the old duffers were so angry about losing their jobs so brutally after many years of service, but acknowledging that they had become bizarrely complacent for a network supposedly dedicated to youth culture. The main problem with Bannister's reforms was that they came at least 10 years too late. Evolution > revolution
Bannister ruined R1. As a presenter on 5Live in the early 2000s ,he came across as a far nicer bloke than he did when he ran R1.
Totally agree. I'd never even heard of him until I watched this but he comes off as very bitter and arrogant
Evans is still a monster out of control with a grossly inflated ego.
And now Radio 1 play the same 40 chart songs day in day out............
30 if you're lucky
This is a good documentary
Yes-very much so indeed too-well done. Thank you!!
Poor Trevor did not realise he was not important anymore. How sad.
That was so overdone! And these people talk about it like it was life or death. It's just a radio station - get some perspective.
Matthew Bannister was also unpleasant
Indeed so there too alas.
when mark & lard left in 2004, radio 1 died so much more.
And died totally with Moyles' enforced departure in 2012. Never forgave Ben Cooper for doing that to Chris.
The Beeb has still some way to go, we listen to Radio most of our day EXCEPT for 12pm to 2pm. The Vine Show. What is the point of depressing people during their lunch break? Radio One has some decent music sections and the shift to Radio 2 from radio one by most of the Dj's or should we call them radio presenters now. Where's the bucket? I expect the Beeb to be the top radio jobs in the country, but now radio and TV is second to the net. Shame even DAB isn't working, we travel around and find the signal to be bad in places. Time to rethink playlists and then play Music to lift the dull days. SAD.FM some days and stop playing music that isn't heard on any other radio station. The John Peel shows were the way to go, introduce new music and slowly build its playability.
Apparently there is a license which indicates that Radio 2 must air a current affairs programme of some sort.
We have switched to Greatest Hits radio for a while and then will see or hear how it goes. Money prizes are multi station but £100,000 would never be a prize on R2. Imagine Vine sitting there talking into a can and no one is connected? Oh Brother where for art you@@pionelpessi1022
Chris Evans = see you next Tuesday. ...... fact.
Jimmy's dead, Rolf was a DJ on radio 2 once as he presented sounds of the sixties before Brian Matthew took over when it had guest presenters every week
Westwood and Chris Evans, that went well...
At least Chris Evans is better on Radio 2 , Radio 2 beats Radio 1 anytime
It does really somehow!!
I was surprised seeing the credits to this - I thought Simon Bates was doing the narration, in an ironic way
Thank you so much!!
Far too much so-called music radio in the UK is actually talk (and annoying posse style presentation) punctuated by music. Give me American radio stations any time, on a lot of those the music only stops for the commercials and the personalities have to slot in as brief voiceovers - it's all a lot more slick and ALL about the music - as music radio should be!
It's true that Radio 1 through the 1970s and into the 1980s had to some degree ossified and was not serving its original target audience (under 25s) very well. But, it WAS serving a large and mainly happy audience. The best solution would have been to petition for a new national station to specifically serve the under 25s while letting Radio 1 continue being successful at what it was doing.
It seems to me that Bannister was the right man for the wrong task and - whilst he does come across in this documentary as a dead eyed hatchet man (perhaps intentionally) - the failure was probably further up the BBC management tree than him. Tearing down the established the Radio 1 team was a gift to commercial radio and the BBC lost large radio audience segments that never came back. The stories about Trevor Dann that circulated around the music industry from the 1970s onward were many - and few, if any, do him any credit.
You are so right on that-I could not agree more.
A smattering of gays and a lot of egos with very large noses hiding behind English names.
@RobinCarmody Spot on about Juste!
radio 1 is rubbis now
RIP Radio one. 1967 -1989.
Ooh not a personal toaster!?
Could have split off a new station with a new name. Stuffy UK (a description, not a suggested name). Regulations and policy-controlled monopoly from "those that know what's best" (and don't see the need to test).
Adrian Juste left Radio 1 in January 1994.
Yes, the 1st January 1994 if I remember rightly. He didn't like it of course, understandably. I believe he was replaced by Jo Whiley the following week thereafter.
@brucedanton3669 am not too sure there really though.
Chris Evans possessed a huge ego and was not in any way the greatest radio presenter. A very marmite character😮
Indeed he did - three months after Bannister had taken over. And not before time.
Are you Dave Lee Travis really, Anthony?
Indeed (re. Juste).
Some horrible reactionaries in this thread. Incredible how many people are still defending that cynical, exploitative culture, even now we know what we know about Savile et al.
You are so right indeed of course, about all that. Thank you!!
Fantastic dark comedy show... hope there won't be any re-runs.
Randy Newman..."It's The Money That I Love"
they did a few years ago
The damage was started in the 80s when the old GPO General said no to Thatcher in being the mouthpiece for the Far Right in the Tory party, soon after the old GPO was broken up and a new BBC General appointed from Tory Party membership, who started replacing all the independent bosses of each section with Tory Party membership replacing them. The BBC in the 90s was already going downhill, it was not just radio it was TV also.
Radio One was ever a bloated monster - it is somehow fitting that iTunes iie true public taste is going to finally kill it. So we have Moyles et al scrambling for the lifeboats.
Eh? Chris Evans DID take over from Terry Wogan when he retired the Radio 2 breakfast. And listening figures went up, not down. They certainly didn't "plunge"
Wasn't fit to fill the great man's boots. Far better replacements for Terry than the ginger one
The toaster was the tipping point for evans
Quite obnoxious really (imo)