I will be presenting my last show on Radio 2 next Friday. I had intended fulfilling my contract until the end of March but the BBC has decided it wants me to leave earlier. Let’s enjoy the week ahead!
Totally shocked to hear the news about the great Steve Wright. We were planning lunch to celebrate the award of his richly deserved MBE. An outstanding and innovative broadcaster whose listeners loved him. What a loss to the world of radio.
Steve Wright asked his colleagues not to mention his last Big Show on R2 so we didn’t. On Twitter though I can say what a giant of radio he is and how much we’ll all miss that daily presence; bright, engaged and engaging. Go well, friend!
Thanks so much for all the lovely messages about my MBE. I’m very grateful and I promise it won’t change me! I am still off on holiday for a further week so please keep listening to
@markgoodier
on
@greatesthitsuk
every morning.
I’m going off for a little while now to sort out a minor medical matter and add on a short break so I’ll be back on
@BBCRadio2
raring to go in just over 3 weeks. Stay with
@djgarydavies
who’ll be in charge until then!
It’s the saddest of days as my great friend Phil Swern has passed away. Phil was a brilliantly inventive man with a passion for music. He had a vast career as a record and radio producer, deviser of tv formats and as the guiding light and co-creator of Popmaster. (1/2).
Huge thanks to everyone who's got in touch, contributed or listened over the last year. It's much appreciated. Have a lovely Christmas and see you on Jan 2nd!
@BBCRadio2
He was a one-man fount of all pop knowledge, starting his record collection as a boy and still displaying the same enthusiasm into his seventies. Without him, there would be no Popmaster, on radio or tv. He leaves a giant gap in my life and in the lives of so many. (2/2)
🏆
@realkenbruce
is a record breaker! 🏆
Today we’re delighted to announce that 8.83 million people are listening to Ken every week!
Now that calls for a celebration… 👏👏👏
#RAJAR
@RealKenBruce
found this tape going through my Dad's things 💙 He passed away in 2020. Can't wait to hear his voice again. Oh, and yours of course! He came erm...2nd and won a pocket recording microphone. He'd be loving the tv show!
#popmaster
#greatesthitsuk
@greatesthitsuk
Today is my last day as Producer of
@RealKenBruce
- I love this show, love the man, love the team, love
#popmaster
(obviously), love the stupid things we’ve done... and loved the (many) beers. Thank you Ken. Long may you reign over midmornings.
Anyone interested in applying for PopMaster the TV Show, head to or email casting
@12yard
.com. We’re on the look-out for contestants with good music knowledge as always and we will have a load of new Popmaster rounds and classic Popmaster to take part in!
Tip for those newbies now working from home ... tell the office/friends/clients not to call you between 10.30am and 10.45am (or turn off your phone)
#popmaster
The Boy is Back in Town! (boy...!) Happy New Year to all; we're featuring
@curtsmith
of Tears For Fears with the Tracks of My Years and the first
#popmaster
of 2022.
To whomever has been in my dressing room and taken my diptyque candle, 2 nespressos, 3 bottles of Evian, a bottle of milk and eaten my caramel nibbles, I hope the coffee was burnt, the milk curdles, the bottles leaked in ur bag, youre sick from the nibbles and the wick falls off.
Found this little vole in our garden this morning looking a bit worse for wear; but the caring staff
@TiggywinklesUK
took him in and are looking after him.
We were delighted to be able to help a special lady celebrate her birthday in style. Almost certainly Glasgow's oldest surviving bus conductress, Isa Dorman, had a trip to remember down memory lane (and Great Western Road)!
Awesome to be reunited with my on-air husband
@RealKenBruce
at
@BBCRadio2
#R2HydePark
- whatever quip I toss his way he returns it with panache & wit, love radioing with him 🙌🏼