Holiday cover has stepped in at Radio 2 ? and Vanessa Feltz clearly had first-day nerves covering for Jeremy Vine
Half-term holiday cover has arrived at Radio 2 with Zoe Ball in for Ken Bruce, Vanessa Feltz (below) covering for Jeremy Vine, and Chris Tarrant keeping Steve Wright's seat warm. A few minutes into Tarrant's exuberant show, a listener emailed ? as Wright's correspondents always do ? that it was a "great show". This amused Tarrant. "We've only done two tunes," he chuckled.
There was more at stake for Feltz than the others, given that she now officially deputises for Vine, and it's a higher profile gig than her early morning show. That has settled in nicely, but it's necessarily a quieter, smoother slot than the lunchtime swoop through four topics (hospital food; Libya; cost of raising children; alcohol licensing) with guests, callers and music.
By the second hour she was in her stride, but the first half of the programme rather had the life sucked out of it. Her introduction to the topics of the day was oddly stilted, and her usually fluid vocabulary felt heavy-handed. "Did you consider it a penance rather than sustenance?" she asked a caller talking about hospital food, leaving him flustered. Vine has the knack of sounding as if he's just having a good old natter with callers, and Feltz does this well on her BBC London show. Presumably it was just first-day nerves.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/feb/22/radio-review-radio-2
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