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(3 views)Have you been missing Ward's Weekly Word? Has your life been incomplete without Martin's Song to round off the show these last four weeks.
I know I've missed them. I've had loads of fun with our various guest presenters, Bob Golding, Mel Giedroyc, Janet Ellis and Katy Wix but I'm delighted to say that this Sunday, Martin and Danielle return. Hurrah for things like that.
So it's business as usual. Except I'll try to stop Martin going on about trifle so much.
Of course, one reason why I'm pleased to see them back is that I'm thrashing them in the Absolute Radio Fantasy Football competition.
I'm currently 30th in the Dave Gorman Sunday Conference. (If you're interested the PIN is 1245) It probably won't get much better than that for me over the season, but with our producer Chris in 188th place, Danielle in 372nd and Martin in 404th there's room for some early celebration.
(53 views)This man used to be Anthony Watson...
Bit now he is 'Two Bags Tony'.
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(32 views)This young lady used to be called Isla Maclean...
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(20 views)As some of you may already know current show regular Bob Golding has kids TV history, having played the Tweenie named
Milo. If we were to add someone with equal pedigree, we'd have to think big. This big...
That's right! We have Janet Ellis on the show this Sunday. Join the fun from 10am.
(40 views)I had last week - by which I mean the one day of the week that I work in these parts - off because I was working in Germany covering a darts tournament. I only spell it out like that because I love the darts and the whole sentence, "covering a darts tournament" still makes me tingle with the stupid excitement of it all.
So this week I was back... but the rest of my colleagues seem to have disappeared. Apart from Rich who's job is as unpaid as it is ill-defined. (But trust me, one day he'll be in charge of all the world's radio because he's that smart and talented.)
It turns out our latest signing - hotshot producer Chris - is having a holiday. Apparently the fact that he'd booked it before he got the job meant we
had to let him take it. What's wrong with a bit of tough love, I ask? Employment Law comes the answer.
And my regular co-presenters, Danielle and Martin are both away for a while as they've got a show at the Edinburgh Festival. They've only gone and written a musical. It's called Gutted. I saw an early preview of it in London and it's genuinely very, very good. Go and see it if you're up at the festival. But don't hang around and heap too much praise on them because I don't want it to go to their heads. If they realise how talented they are they'll never come back to the cosy fold of Sunday morning radio with little old me. I don't want them getting ideas above their radio station.
So, anyway, as far as voices-and-button-pushing stuff goes all of a sudden I was the most senior man in the studio this morning. Hotshot-Chris was replaced by Overqualified-Justin while Martin and Danielle were replaced by Bob Golding and Mel Giedroyc respectively. Or irrespectively... there's no rule that says it has to be a boy-for-a-boy and a girl-for-a-girl.
We used to have a regular interview on the show. But around new year we stopped because we always ended up tossing away e-mails and texts from listeners that we liked in order to accommodate the guests. We decided to only have guests when we really, really loved them instead of just as a matter of course. (We've had Harry Shearer and Neil Hannon since, so you can see that we meant it).
But back when we were having a weekly guest Bob came in to talk about the one-man play, Morecambe that he was starring in, in the West End. I loved him and made a mental note to make sure we invited him back whenever the opportunity arose.
I first met Mel a couple of months ago when she was a guest on the latest series of Genius - a telly thing I do for BBC2. Again, I thought she was fab and made a mental note to make sure we worked together again at the first opportunity. (The latest series of Genius is all filmed and ready to go by the way... we're just waiting for Mr & Mrs BBC2-Scheduler to tell us when.)
So while there were a lot of new people in the studio this morning there was also a lot of loveliness bouncing around. I had an ace time with my new chums.
We'll be the same mix next week. I imagine it'll feel like we're all old hands who've been doing the show together forever.
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