End of an era....

[Nick]

Radio will never be the same for me again...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21084633

(note what's on the table!)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21070945

Charlotte Green has left the building - 18th January, 2013...

[Geaney]

A sad day indeed. One big downside of seeing her in the video clips is my fantasy image of what she looked like is destroyed forever! Oh well......

Cheers, John

[Yorkie]

She was the female equivalent of Brian Perkins. Cut glass RP accent, with the sort of 'magisterial' gravitas for which BBC was once noted, but not always easy for her to keep her guard up.

Probably the worst time anyone could burst into a fit of giggles is when the'yre reading an obituary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKBWsy5A2bA

Oh dear, oh dear!

I wonder why she's retiring at the relatively young age of 57? It's not as though she has to be 'eye candy' on the radio as happens with TV, where presenters are often on the receiving end of comments about their haistryle or dress sense. On radio, it's all in the voice innit?

[Mark Hennessy]

Cutbacks, sadly. Thanks to DQF (Google it!). I'm sure we haven't heard the last of her though...

[Yorkie]

I wonder how much they paid consultants to come up with that nifty TLA? (Rhetorical question!).