Linda Mottram for Mornings and Chaser Knight for Evenings on 702 ABC
Evenings: Knight
Mornings: Mottram
The ABC is putting yet another Chaser on the radio with Dominic Knight taking the helm of 702 ABC Sydney’s Evenings show, which also airs across NSW and the ACT. Knight will be on air from 7-10pm. He replaces Robbie Buck who is moving to an afternoon show on ABC Radio National.
Knight will not be the only member of the Chaser team to be on the ABC. Radio National will see Julian Morrow host drivetime on Fridays.
702 has also announced the replacement for the axed Deborah Cameron in its Mornings slot. It will be journalist Linda Mottram who has previously presented AM.
Is there a rule that 702 can only have one female program presenter at a time? (excluding newsreaders etc)
Well done Dom
The press release on the RN site says ” we introduce Australian audiences to Melvyn Bragg’s popular weekly BBC Radio 4 program In Our Time.” This means that a large proportion of the RN landscape will be devoted to the increasingly convoluted meanderings of two septuagenarians who are well past their use by date and should only be wheeled out for high days and feast days. Adam’s enunciation and geriatric grunts and tics increasingly gives away his advancing years and makes the program just about unbearable to listen to on any receiving device more hi fi than a cheap transistor.
The rebroadcast of The Lord Bragg’s program seems pointless given that the recordings have been available as podcasts for years anyway. He is also getting too old for the role and is increasingly testy with his guests all of whom, it must be said, are generally experts in their field and know much more than he does. The program is worth listening to chiefly for the amusement derived from Bragg’s chivvying of his guests if they get too prolix or if they posit a view contrary to his own – which are firmly rooted in mid-20th century. The first ep on the Industrial Revolution is a classic example.