Presumably musicals score highly in 'public value'. Whatever, Radio 2 boss Lesley Douglas has said she hopes to increase the amount of 70's pop and musical theatre on the station, presumably in a bid to stop it becoming just too cool following those recent appointments of Mark Radcliffe and Dermot O'Leary, and the dangerous tendency in recent years to programme very good music shows.
Observing that musicals have been through something of a revival recently (not sure the very broke theatre industry would agree, but still, Mama Mia and We Will Rock You continue to sell, which I guess are 70s pop and musicals), Douglas told the Independent: "Musical theatre is the most popular form of theatre in the country and is clearly something we should be doing. A drip feed of letters and emails over the years has noted that we don't really cover soundtracks and we don't really cover musicals."
On the need for more seventies music in the schedules she continued: "I think we need to look at the balance of things in the schedules. I know I have a gem in The Sounds of the Seventies and I know that I have a gem in the presenter Steve Harley. There's not a presenter who has turned out as good as him and yet he's on half an hour a week. I would like to do more of him and more of Suzi Quattro."