Find out how many others are annoyed by it
And then storm whoever controls the radio station.

At least go for BBC which only advertises their own stuff.
(Mrs Ballunatic counting calories, not votes., Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:50, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Where the only risk is catching a soundbite of Nicholas Parsons
Or worse: Gyles Fucking Brandreth.

Or that pillock who presents that fucking smug book quiz on Wednesday nights. Is it just me or is it a not-actually-all-that-subtle attempt to reintroduce Quote-Fucking-Unquote under a different name?

Sorry about that: I do actually like Radio 4 on the whole. There are just elements of it that have me reaching for the 'Off' Button/power cable/hammer. Don't get me started on Thought For The Fucking Day
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:54, Reply)

Or morbidly obese Christopher Moyles!
And modern sounds of today.
(Mrs Ballunatic counting calories, not votes., Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:55, Reply)

Oh god...
When you said "BBC" I had mistakenly assumed you just meant Radio 4.

Radio 1 has a lot to answer for. Why have they continued to employ Chris Moyles, let alone allowed him to go this long without being separated from his larynx?

I've a bit of a chip on my shoulder from early mornings spent travelling up to Bedford in my supervisor's car with that insufferable case of chronic verbal diarrhoea on the radio and now I want to mutilate him with a trowel.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:59, Reply)

Oh Noes!
Not quote un-quote.

The most smug thing on radio. I hate it.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:58, Reply)

Have you heard it?
It doesn't call itself Quote-Unquote, and it has a different (but equally smug) presenter. I think it's called the Book Quiz, or something like that, and it really is the same format: a load of smug literary arseholes using the thin veil of a "panel game" to show off how many works of great literature they've read.

"Well, I think it was Dostoevsky that said *SMUG AND PSEUDO-MEANINGFUL QUOTE FROM DOSTOEVSKY'S LETTER TO THE GAS BOARD*"
THE AUDIENCE LAUGHS FOR FEAR OF LOOKING IGNORANT. OR BECAUSE SOME OF THEM REALLY ARE SUFFICIENTLY UP THEMSELVES TO FIND THAT FUNNY.
"Ah, yes, much as Hardy said *OOH LOOK AT ME, I'VE SPENT SO LONG LICKING THE RINGPIECE OF OUR LOCAL LIBRARIAN THAT HE SHOWED ME THE POEMS HARDY WROTE WHEN HE WAS A 16-YEAR OLD EMO WHO HAD NOTHING TO DO BUT CRY, WANK AND COUNT HIS SPOTS ALL DAY*
THE AUDIENCE BURSTS INTO PAROXYSMS OF LAUGHTER AT THE WITTICISM OF THIS QUOTE. NORMAL PEOPLE WOULD FIND IT SUFFICIENT TO LAUGH AT THE WORD "HARDY." WHY IS THIS SMUG PILE OF HORSE-SHIT ALLOWED TO CONTINUE?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 11:06, Reply)

That sounds like Quote Unquote to me
In fact a real transcript.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 11:11, Reply)

*grabs pitchfork/lights torch*

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:54, Reply)

My work mates love the comercal stations.
I am outvoted 5 to 1
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 10:56, Reply)

change jobs

(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Tue 2 Feb 2010, 11:28, Reply)