A lot of stations have the occasional gem, some start very well, but its seems that the trend is to dumb down as quickly as possible taking the shortest possible path between the head of gold to the feet of clay.
My listening is usually confined to Smooth Radio when driving, or Classic if out of range, the one for the traffic reports, the other for Mr Kelly's excruciating pronunciation of classic composer's names. (It's quite some time since I drove out of Smooth's reception area). At home, Radio 7 when I remember and I get a chance to wander down memory lane.
When I had finished being a callow youth and started being a callow adult, I really didn't like that upstart Wogan. Then one day, the televise Miss UK was held in Blackpool, Wogan hosting. This meant his early morning show was done as an outside broadcast, from the hotel he was staying at. The guy who usually did outside broadcasts was off sick at the time, and so, as I was doing the rest of his job, I got the lineman liaison job, which meant making sure there was a REALLY good landline, and being there should it stop being a REALLY good landline. I was sat in the "studio" for the show to be in a good position to run away should the unthinkable happen. What amazed me was the almost total lack of a script. Yes there was a list of the tracks to play. He did have some letters from his listener. The rest was made up as he went along, with, surprisingly, immaculate timing to interleave with the starts and finishes of the news intervals. He is going to be a heck of an act to follow. It could be something to do with the general culture at the time of upbringing. See the thread in humour about surviving pre '70's.