Radio head: Graham Norton

Tuning in for the second of Graham Norton 's Saturday morning shows on Radio 2 at the weekend, I found myself surprised not to be enjoying it more. I really liked Norton when he sat in for Chris Evans at breakfast, but so far I'm not swooning over him in what used to be Jonathan Ross's slot. It can be very funny, mind. At the top of the show he mentioned that Barbara Taylor Bradford was one of his guests, adding that she has sold 82m books worldwide. "What the hell's she doing in here on a Saturday morning?" he asked cheekily. "Is she greedy?" Later he called her Barbara Taylor Woodford, and then funnily repeated her correct name as a mantra. His self-deprecation works well, too. "I don't think we'll do an album of my jingles," he laughed after an especially lame one. But there are problems. The show is overloaded, for starters. Saturday mornings tend to be busy, and well suited to amusing chatter in the background rather than fidgety features such as Grill Graham (he tackles listeners' dilemmas, such as a smelly colleague), I Can't Believe It's Not Better (legendarily bad tracks) and Tune with a Tale (you can probably guess that one). To make matters worse, it's also stuffed with travel reports. Why? Why not have a bulletin at the top of the hour, as is the case on Dermot O'Leary's show later in the day? These updates interrupt the flow of the show and involve the dreary banter with travel reporters with which Radio 2 is seemingly obsessed. All of this pales, though, compared to the nonsense idea of a sports correspondent for the show. I don't want sport on Radio 2; we have 5 Live for that. And I certainly don't want it on Norton's show, where it is, to put it mildly, an uneasy fit. Someone needs to rethink this show so that it's all about the presenter's strengths, rather than an awkward-sounding please-all.