Chris Evans' Strange Tribute To Keith Harris

Unbeatable Radio 2 Travel Bloopers

Examples of Chris Evans news intros followed by station sound producer Chris Reay explaining, at package launch, the use of the ramp in the jingle package.

Evans News Intros

Overbranding a feature intro; repeating it in a link; then highlighting obvious weakness on week 2!

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Bill Overton - I'd love to know what you meant by this!

Coldest summer sounds pretty warm!

All it takes is for a big jingle anorak to infiltrate Radio (EVERY)One and this could happen!

Could this be the sound of Radio Everyone?

The 'Relatable Life' Link - as heard on 1Xtra

Needless Interruptions on The Today Programme

Not quite the 'standardised news intro' Radio 2 were aiming for

Chris Evans Jocking A Song Intro

Bet this had producer & presenter sweating! What a way with words.

A caller to Jeremy Vine make a real C-word sound of "Companies" - twice!

It begins: 'George Martin - The Chris Evans Breakf... has passed away - Good Morning'. A mess of a memorial show.

From the bizarre cheery tone with which Chris Evans references the news of Sir George's death (directly after the 8am bulletin, which had led with the sad news in a far more respectful tone) to the shifting of focus from the producer to Chris's own ability to segue tracks - this is just embarrassing.

Once again we have the 'kid showing off' mentality where an essentially good idea is turned into a 'Dad, look! Dad, Dad, look what I can do!' quest for attention. To prove it, "Best Ever" shouted over the start of She Loves You (a song with no intro) referred not to the late producer's talents, but to Chris's ability to press a button and start its playback.

We then have further back references to the quality of Chris's segue with a sign that the public agrees it was the "best ever" segue, thoroughly cementing the idea that the key point was to celebrate the presenter over the huge quality and groundbreaking creativity of Sir George Martin's talent.

Why were they not tweets about Sir George and his brilliant body of work which were being quoted at the end of that song? Better still, why didn't he just let the song finish (and it does finish) before talking about it?

Chris is a creative and a talented broadcaster, with a producer's mindset - but the key difference from Sir George might be that one of them never felt the need to endlessly self-praise and to shout, literally, about himself - yet still came across as a strong voice with an incredibly impressive track record and sublime creative ideas.


'Best Ever' segue? Worst Ever Tribute?

Jeremy Irons On Radio 2 Chris Evans (contains Language)

Jeremy Vine Phone Number

These 3 clips prove Chris Evans simply doesn't understand what the songs are for. Nobody would talk deliberately over the start of them otherwise.

3 Indications Chris Evans Doesn't Understand Why Songs Are There

Capital Gold 2002 vs Radio 2 2013 News Jingles

The story is actually about turbulence from a tropical storm. But for a moment sounds like the blame is placed elsewhere!

Unfortunate Reference To Capital From Radio 2 Caller

Even Chris Evans' Guests Are Telling Him To Shut Up!

Tim Powell, the Chief Exec of Portsmouth Hospital NHS Trust, twice refers to failings at the "Queen Alexander" hospital.

Chief Exec talks about 'Queen Alexander' Hospital on Radio 4

Chris Evans Too Busy With Top Gear To Focus On His Show

Nicholas Owen's Tramlink annos certainly took "nice & clear, not too fast" to a new level

A new twist on the "Everyone forgets that for 375 miles the Titanic was a great success!" line

Blair Updates Titanic Line

Chris Evans Intros Dallas Shooting Story

Chris Evans achieves FULL PARTRIDGE

While some radio stations carefully control DJ links lasting 15 seconds to make sure they won't be a 'tune out' - this is happening in their breaks

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