Listeners turned to the comforting tones of the avuncular Scot during the pandemic
This might have passed you by, what with all the other news to savour/slog through/weep over, but Ken Bruce is now the most popular DJ in the UK. Yes, that Ken Bruce. The gently avuncular Radio 2 mid-morning veteran bagged the highest number of listeners in the latest Rajars (the official measure of radio audiences).
Bruce’s station compadre, Zoe Ball, also did well: with 7.5 million listeners, she hosts the most popular breakfast show in the country. But that’s just a warm-up for the biggest radio show out there. Bruce’s 9.30am-12.00pm weekday programme is listened to by 8.7 million people, 1.2 million more than Ball; the largest audience on UK radio.
