Ken Bruce Talks Leaving the BBC, PopMaster & Greatest Hits Radio
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- This week Rob is joined by radio legend Ken Bruce to discuss his new role at Greatest Hits Radio, his long-spanning radio career and even his unexpected venture into running a small bus company! Rob also treats listeners to some impeccable Ken Bruce impressions…
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Ken is an absolute legend and a real broadcaster definitely Greatest Hits Radio’s gain the BBC’s loss. Like a lot of radio listeners I don’t listen to Radio 2 anymore
Thanks for informing us. I'll sleep better now
@@bramwell948ls that you,Terry?
@@hamishanderson6738 is that you jimmy
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@bramwell948 comments section not your cup of tea then ?
Ken Bruce is very likeable. No huge ego or LOUD voice. Just soft tones, and charm.
Ken is so easy to listen to because he is laid back, and engaging without being intrusive.
Listening to GHR with Ken and Simon Mayo has made Radio a joy again
@@gusferguson1054like every radio station ever then
Ken is the best of the best. He's cut from the same cloth as Terry, the gift of talking to people as if they'd known them for years and making the the listeners feel included.
So an Irish and Sottish love child called Rob that's Welsh without a hint of of English
@@chriswalford9228 they went to different schools together
Ken Bruce MBE.... well deserved!
Ken is a Legend of the airwaves, no mistake.
What lovely genuine guy ken is
Radio 2 is now becoming Radio 1 and a half with all these new presenters.
That’s how it appears but, I gather it’s US who go thru’ a process of change: I started off with Radio 1 but now, at 58, I’m pretty much at Radio 4.
I remember Terry Wogan reading out a question he’d received, on his morning show, asking (hugely paraphrased) “at what age does one become a crusty old fart” to which Terry replied “at about the age you start to listen to this show & decide to write in”.
If that wasn’t well explained, it was rather like the time I was asked by a very nice, happily married, Cambridge educated mate of mine “at what age do you become a dirty old man?” … to which I replied “at about the age you ask that question”.
The Best one yet! I love Ken and have missed him. it was never about him in his show. Ken you always gave your guest, topic, or news story the limelight! It don't go unnoticed X Thanks KB
Precisely. There must be loads of times he could tell anecdotes or drop names, but that's not Ken's style. A very modest man.
So nice to hear Ken on Greatest Hits Radio, I gave up radio 2 a few years ago.
Who will ever forget the April Fool, that heard it? Brilliant. 🙂
This was great fun, excellent interview. I've listen to Ken for decades and always loved the banter between Ken and Terry. Was forlorn when I heard he was leaving R2 but then elated when I heard he would have almost the same slot but on Greatest Hits where the music is so much better. Ironically, R2 started playing more oldies tracks after Ken left, mmm! So glad Ken got one over on R2 with his Trademarked Popmaster.
Both Rob and Ken are excellent. Thank you for doing this.
Great chemistry in this conversation between Ken and Ken. Thoroughly enjoyed this, thank you.
Greatest Hits Radio, Ken in the morning, Simon and Matt late afternoon. Happy Days!
Priceless, haven't listened to R2 for a while, but when hearing KB was moving to Greatest Hits, had no problem retuning. Seems many previous R1 and sometime R2 presenters have found a new home there too.
Ken is very talented, as we all agree - but he's a canny Scot too, with the PM trade mark and merchandise. Good for him! A natural broadcaster. Witty, knows his music, appreciates his guests, always easy on the ear. Thank you, Ken. Thank you, Rob.
Well, he was canny but only because the BBC were stupid. He offered it to them and told them they should trademark it so nobody could copy it. They thought nobody would be interested enough to nick it, so he trademarked it himself to protect it. Turned out well for him in the end!😂
Please invite him back, Rob. I want more Ken!
Ken Bruce is a titan of the radio industry. Unflappable. Smooth as butter and sharp as a tack. I'm just glad we get Popmaster back.
Word-perfect 👌🏼
Retired titan
Listen to Ken on Greatest Hits a lot recently at work. His voice has travelled with me thru the years thru parents and grandparents. Warms my heart he's on the correct side of celebrity. What a great laugh and still being absolutely thoroughly brilliant in what he does. What a man thanks for this Rob
Great interview Ken played a blinder with the pop master interlecual property deal
Two beautiful voices.
This was bloody lovely and heart warming. Love it ❤
Always amazes me that this channel has so few subs and such a modest audience. Every one of these interviews are a joy.
My friends had a Ken Bruce bus in 2008 for their wedding. My almost 2 year old was being a pain in the church so I took her outside and Ken let her play on the bus. I remember him mentioning his child about the same age. I think Charles Nove was the conductor with the ticket machine.
When I was younger just thought Ken was a Terry clone then something slowly happened when moving to two and Kens voice and dry sense of humour took me over
.great interview 😊 61 now
I remember Ken being the first person on Radio 2 to make a song by “The Stranglers” record of the week. Great interview Rob as usual.
It’s the interview we’ve all been waiting for. Always excellent, well chosen guests. Keep up the great work Rob
always nice to meet another Darren in the world. hi from BC Canada
@@daxconnell7661 always nice to meet another Darren that has good taste in podcasts 😜
@@darrencronin1415 got to love most of the people Rob Brydon has interviewed through WILTY, and then branched out to other British tv shows
I went on Popmaster and only scraped 6 points, by guessing a bonus question... Jon the Plasterer!!!
While watching this I suddenly remembered the first time I saw and heard Ken interact with Terry on air - I think it may have been the very first time they actually"met' on air .... a live Children in Need broadcast ( I think). Ken was a DJ with BBC Radio Scotland and therefore completely unknown to the majority of viewers while Terry was the long established star on BBC national radio and TV hosting the live show. At one point the show cut to a studio in Glasgow where for a minute or so a bearded and not yet bald Ken Bruce joked with Terry about the latter's sartorial style while Terry called Ken a " bearded wonder". It was all good natured and for me became a curious pre echo of the 000s of times listeners would hear Terry hand over to Ken at 09.30 on weekdays on BBC Radio 2.
Didn't Ken always refer to Robbie Williams as 'she', when talking to Terry? What the Hell are 000s of times BTW?
Two national treasures ⭐️⭐️
2 absolute legends!! Thank you for everything! You are both much loved!! XX
Brilliant, brilliant little chat from two men who obviously have the greatest respect for each other and seem really close. Ken is a genius and Rob is right in saying he is so easy to listen to. I’m sure my blood pressure lowers by 20% when I hear Ken’s dulcet tones.
Keep up the good work guys, you are both legends.
My favourite dinner party guest would be Ken as I am sadly an old bus enthusiast. Fleetline or Atlantean? over to you Ken and I can only accept your first answer!
Always play popmaster at work love it before break time
I always think it must be odd for people that are usually the ones asking the questions, trying to keep the patter going, making the guest feel welcome, to now br the other end answering the questions. Class act.
Notice how Ken was talking to the Microphone, but Rob was talking to Ken.
Master of his craft
At last a really good interview. No ego.
Brilliant show ...thanks I think you are both fantastic at what you do
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ken bruce, he's just the perfect Radio DJ🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Brilliant
Oh that was absolutely brilliant!
Thank you gents.
Brilliant! This was excellent! Thanks guys!
The irreplaceable Ken Bruce! Have enjoyed his shows for many years - Terry Wogan followed by Ken Bruce, radio scheduling perfection 🥰
That was lovely. What wonderful men.
2 of my favourite ever people 👏
Delightful.
I never listened to Ken on the Beeb, I am in West Wales and have listed to GHT even from the old Swansea sound days, retired now with the radio on whilst garnering etc I now wait for 10.30 every day to listen to pop master. Its a really great show. BYT uncle Bryn, we love you to bits 😂😂
Fantastic interview from two legends.
Loved Ken's Radio 2 show and especially the April Fools show Rob did in 2011. Genuinely had me believing the impersonation for almost the entire two and a half hours!
As a boomer (and, by now & by definition, considered a ‘crusty old fart who listens to Prog rock’) I’ve always enjoyed listening to Ken. He, whispering’ Bob Harris & John Peel all have/had one of those voices that chills one out.
Ken is in a league of his own. No other comes close
Ken had the perfect voice for radio
Fantastic.
Brilliant. Love both of them. Really enjoyable interview
This series is just so brilliant 👏
I could listen to Ken Bruce all day long!! ❤
Ken is the best, as a DJ there was no one but ken , he stuck with it & fought of the beeb,
Ken is simply a genious! 😀
We need you back on Radio 2 ken
What a great chap Ken is and being interviewed by Rob too is a real treat too. I’ve now followed Ken to greatest hits radio and I love it. What a great station with finally some good music I only listen to radio 2 now for Jeremy Vine .
Radio 2 is rubbish otherwise and has little personality
I have Chris Evans on virgin radio, then Ken on greatest hits radio and then to Jeremy on radio 2. Then 2pm back to greatest hits
Great voice.
Have only just found greatest hits radio and love it.
Great Chat.. Glad to see Ken of that place..
I feel Ken was pushed out by the BBC - Ken isn't stupid, he knew the change in attitude at Radio 2, with them keen on getting younger presenters and not understanding their key listener demographic anymore it seems, and Ken knew he would be axed sooner rather than later, just look at how after he announced he planned to leave, that Radio 2 sped up his departure time.
Mayo, Gambaccini and Ken all left around the same time and took their shows with them. Think all three were pushed.
For years I thought he was saying his name was Kent Bruce.
Two great talents. Ken is probably loathe to slag off the BBC but I’d love to hear his private thoughts.
he said he would never be a "wogan" but he reminds me a lot of him.
Loved that, Thank you so much.
This is the video of Rob presenting The Ken Bruce show in 2011.
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Enjoyed this 😊
Love KB (and RB of course). He does remind me of the farmer from Shaun the Sheep when he smiles 😁and he even sounds a little like him too😂
Ken is that rare example of a 'National Treasure'. Radio 2's figures are down after he left.
Not surprised!!!!
@@gusferguson1054No-one talked about R2 not surviving - but they do care about the RAJAR figures.
Enjoyed that. Thanks chaps.
Have you heard that Manic Street Preachers song Journal for Plague Lovers? It has the lyric "only a God can bruise". The "can bruise' bit sounds like Ken Bruce!
I listen to GHR at work from 7am until 3.30pm Mon to Fri and have to say that he`s the best DJ i`ve heard on British radio since I moved back to the UK 6 years ago from 33 years living in South Africa...
South African radio has some excellent DJ`s, he reminds me very much of a few of them back "Home"...
I hate advertising so I won’t listen, 2 songs advertisement, bloody shocking!!!
Great to see Andy Jacobs looking so well
I listen to all my podcasts on youtube premium, So I wont hear the rest. but thanks for sharing this snippet, it was great.
So enjoyed this... highlights rather well the absolute loss Ken Bruce is to the BBC
He's a lovely idea of a man, is all I'll say. I preferred him to Steve Wright, I'll tell you that for nowt. BBC? If you slept with dogs like that, you should wake up with a lot more fleas.
ken its bloody impossible to get your show in west wales
MBE.
Brilliant 😄 👏👏👏
Ken and Lynn were just brilliant together
That april fools programme was brilliant
I thought the BBC got rid of Ken ? Why would you leave a very successful career after 40 years and go and work on another radio station doing the same thing ? I think Ken is just being kind and not slagging the BBC.
He left for more money -and the freedom to develop PopMaster in to a TV format through an independent production company. He has no reason to slag off the BBC - he's had a career there for over 40 years and could still in the future do freelance work for them.
Because they pay him three times as much.
The bbc gave him a good living and actually stayed with him in 1980s when listening figures were poor. Amazing how folk think someone should have a job for life at BBC..therein lies the issue. Some think the bbc is a cradle to grave life
@@plkrtnreally? he was on 400k a year at bbc.
I don’t think it’s just for money, after 40 years a change of scenery, new challenge and new colleagues is well over due I’d say.
Then it happened at 5.25 rob visually became Col. Hans Landa.
i left radio 2 and went GH when Ken left
Tidy job Rob. Congrats to Ken for his M.B.E.
Used to love the Terry / Ken handovers, much missed.
Ken Bruce is as good a radio presenter as the great Sir Terry Wogan
Used to love Sir Tel and thought of Ken as 2nd string but Ken eventually surpassed him in my estimation. The only criticism of his show on Greatest Hits, is that I was introduced to artistes like Nel Brydon, Lissie and myriad others by Ken on radio 2. GH is rigidly the 30 year period. Please Ken, drop in some new stuff, just once in a while.
I can't listen to pop master now without Ken , sad he left.
He hasn’t left ; he left radio 2 and moved to greatest hits radio along with pop master
I'm just hearing The Trip 😂
Ken Bruce is THE BEST and what on earth is the BBC doing letting him go?????????
They should of moved heaven & earth to keep him !!!!!!!!!!
Beyond belief ?????????
He is THE GOD OF RADIO just like SIR TERRY WOGAN. LEGENDARY BROADCASTERS !!!!!!!!!!!
Come back to radio 2 it's shit now without you
Is there a recording of the April fools Rob being Ken?! Would love to hear than!
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Great interview... love listening to Ken Bruce on GHR but always turn the sound down when the brainwashing news comes on or the shitte adverts.
My van radio can't get you. 10 to the top is ok, thumbs up to Vernon, but I miss you.
There's been a bewildering amount of news articles about Ken Bruce recently! For some reason these articles are always on my newsfeed. Look - Ken Bruce is fine, but I barely listen to his show, why am I having this news recommended to me? I suppose I don't help myself by writing comments on videos featuring Ken Bruce...
"I suppose I don't help myself by writing comments on videos featuring Ken Bruce..." probably not, lol.
My feed has, for no apparent reason, been inundated with light/mundane stories about Philip Schofield for about 5 years now. No idea why. Then recently, it suddenly became more relevant, of course.
You've answered your own question. Also - there is an option (3 dots) to select Not Interested.