What our obsession with Ken Bruce tells us about British radio

Poor Ken Bruce . It’s been two and a half years since he left Radio 2 for Greatest Hits Radio and yet his scandalous departure is still cited as the tipping point of the BBC brain drain and the harbinger of the corporation’s demise altogether. It is, it seems, impossible for us to accept that a 71-year-old bloke who’d been doing the same job for 31 years might fancy a change, or – as is the case with his mid-morning show, which he pretty much transplanted wholesale onto the Bauer-owned station, PopMaster included – very little change at all. Just a lot more money.

No, Bruce will never escape the subject of the BBC, despite the fact that, unlike almost every other major broadcaster who has left for pastures new in the last few years, he has avoided big swipes about impartiality, pay, mis