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The BBC's nonsensical axing of Steve Wright's hugely popular afternoon show less than two years ago was the equivalent of a public library replacing a Shakespearean comedy with a (Scott) Mills & Boon. And now Radio 2 boss Helen Thomas pays tribute to his irreplaceable talents. Talk about not reading the room. Yet another example, a very sad one, of how the BBC has quite simply lost its way these last few years.

(Vincent Hefter, Daily Mail, Feb 19. Edited, of course.)