always listening in

The news and current affairs departements of the BBC are on strike today. It’s not really had a dramatic effect on my life – well unless you count waking to a documentary on the biggest names in jazz which did freak me out a bit.

My breakfast show of choice is normally the Today programme so I was slightly miffed that it had been cancelled until that is until 8.30am came – a repeat of ‘I’m sorry I haven’t a clue’ had me in absolute hysterics which was rather unfortunate as I was on the train at the time.

All in all I had a slightly better Monday morning than I would normally have had thanks to a little old strike.

I do, he’s so smug and thinks he’s so funny. But the problem is he is quite funny, least funnier than most DJs out there (Bush & Troy on GWR actually make me feel sick).

Danny Baker keeps poping up on stations almost out of the blue. I first heard him on Radio 1 back in 1995 and thought the way he used listeners callling in was great – the sound of somebody riding a bike into a lake had me in histerics. I’d turn on my radio and there he was and he always made me laugh (moving to Five Live and then to Talk Sport and finally to Radio London).

I know that I’m probably alone in this – when I’ve talked about him before people seem to activley dislike the poor fella. I mean the Daz adverts were a huge mistake.

Well anyway through the magic of the Interweb I can now listen to Danny Baker on Radio London, the show doesn’t seem to have changed in 10 years – same crappy jingles, huge radio posse – ace., oh and I’ve just found out he won a Sony award last week.