A great local radio station serving Oxford and the surrounding towns and villages. A combination of…read moremusic, news, current affairs and chat. The daily chat show with Kat Orman has some interesting guests and challenging topics.

I am quite fond of BBC and I am quite fond of Oxford (and dream of the day I can move back). If…read moreyou're unfamiliar with BBC Radio, then it's quite like American NPR. The news stories and music and very interesting and novel to out-of-towners. A fantastic and refreshing broadcast!

I'm as proud a Bristolian as anyone, but quite who listens to Radio Bristol I've got no idea. It's…read morelargely talk dominated broadcasting hosted by DJs who aren't talented enough to get on national radio (and that's bearing in mind that Chris ****ing Moyles can get on national radio). I'm listening now to check if it's really as bad as I remember and there is currently a debate going on, the two main topics being whether you have ever dumped toxic waste, and if you had Fu Man Chu moustache would it dangle in your soup. It's all a bit Alan Partridge, though that was actually a comedy whereas I can't work out if this is supposed to be funny or not. Awful.

It must be hard work trying to run a local radio station because I'm yet to find one in Bristol…read morethat manages to make a decent hash of it. Radio Bristol is Aunty's offering to the city and not much better than the rest of what's on offer. On any given tune-in your likely to get the strains of some obscure record from the mid 1970s. They claim to play modern stuff, but I'm yet to hear anything beyond the eighties. If you aren't greeted by music then you may well get a slightly nasal DJ trying to entertain you with limp jokes and just plain odd discussions. It's a bit Bristolian, but not in a good way, more in a slightly inbred, country bumkin sort of way. They have traffic reports, that's about all you'd want to tune in for. BBC Radio, as I've come to expect of local radio, disappoints.