The week in audio: Radio 2 Remembers Steve Wright; The Grand House: Boom Or Blight? – review

‘Created his own world’: Steve Wright in 1979. Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images

Radio 2 Remembers Steve Wright (Radio 2) | BBC Sounds
The Grand House: Boom Or Blight? (Radio 4) | BBC Sounds

I had mixed feelings about Radio 2’s bank holiday Monday offering: a five-hour celebration of the late Steve Wright, made up of a station tribute hosted by Vernon Kay, a fan tribute with Liza Tarbuck, and Steve Wright in His Own Words, which delved into the BBC archives. Wright was a hugely loved Radio 2 staple, and the shows were the correct combination of warm-hearted and slightly cheesy (though, lest we forget, he’d been moved on from his afternoon show just over a year before he died in February).