Launch programmes
Times Radio (digital)

Some might think we have too many radio stations already, and wonder why we need any more. As for Times Radio, launched last week amid terrific fanfare, its principal objective – shared, one might add, with Times newspapers – seems to be to annoy the BBC. Certainly at least three of its presenters – John Pienaar, Carole Walker and Mariella Frostrup – have been poached from Broadcasting House, while the former Times Literary Supplement editor Stig Abell, co-presenter of the breakfast spot (6-10 a.m.), could until fairly recently be heard on Radio 4’s Front Row.