Best of luck to him.

Best of luck to him.

The Squeezers are rooting for him.

and play football in our vest and pants, use explosive charges for goalposts and release the pigeons from Villa Park at half time to tell the rest of the world the score then we can get The Candyman through this. Come on Dan - you've got me through so much shit over the years. Get well soon.

What a gent. Best wishes Candyman.

to realise just how much you appreciate somebody. Always there to make everything seem well when things aren't always going so goo in your own life.
Get well Danny from just one of thousands who need you in their life.

...but no Spooky Tooth. Please.

Get well fellah.

and you're on your way.

Get well soon

This is for you:-

(Via the excellent CosmoBells)

I was only listening to last year's DB podcast for the umpteenth time just yesterday. A great, great communicator. Get well soon, old boy. A positive outlook is a prerequisite for cancer survival, so that's that box ticked.

Get well soon, Danny. You will overcome this minor distraction as you enter your prime.

To another...Get well soonest. The airwaves need you now more than ever.

ELP's "Pictures" and "Tarkus" on vinyl the other day---will play them just for him at the next possible opportunity---wish him the very best.

The Candyman can.
Best wishes to the Baker boy in roundly thrashing the dredded illness with a rolled up newspaper, combined with the help of our caring Docs/Nurses.

and good luck DB. much like the 'wall all very beatable

Genuinely shocked here. Danny's various shows over the years have been in a constant in my life, and I really hope that he can overcome this evil disease.

Be praying for you Candyman. And I don't normally do that sort of thing.

Best wishes to him, even if he does support Grimwall.

Get well and get back to what you do better than anyone else, radio.

Get well soon and hurry on back, we need you broadcasting.

Playing a little Erin Bode in your honour.

soon, Danny.

Can I ask the powers that be here to post Danny's piece from a 2005 Rocking Vicar mailout entitled 'IN SEARCH OF THE WORST MEMOIR IN SHOWBIZ HISTORY'

It was a review of the Ed Stewart biog which Danny renamed "Out Of The Stewpot or 60 Years A Prick."

It was a very funny bit of writing that deserves a new audience.

Here's some ELP.

I almost feel bad that we bashed your lot's sad and sorry arses 2-0 at the weekend. But I won't, and therefore will say instead that all at the itfc1959 household wish you all the very best possible and hope for a speedy recovery.

Chin up, old boy: I shall be playing Blues Variation at every opportunity to all and sundry on your best behalf.

my daily dose of Danny makes my otherwise mundane job bearable and selfishly i am genuinely dreading months without him and his unsurpassed radio shows. I know he will stoically dismiss this all as "Self Regarding Nonsense" but there are some real genuine warm sentiments towards him and the fun that he brings into our lives. Take care Candyman and best wishes to you and your loved ones.

Well, sadly, for once, not so good. All best wishes and prayers to the man who's made me laugh and be happy more than any other braodcaster.

Hurry up and get well Candyman.

His Saturday morning show on 5Live is one of the broadcast highlights of the week. "The Sausage Sandwich" game and "Monkeys dressed as people" are the products of unalloyed genius. Even Mrs SinW likes it.

Get well soon, Danny. Cancer is beatable.

.. wishing the Candyman a speedy recovery.

Nothing but good thoughts to you and yours from this quarter.

He's SJ Perelman, isn't he? That post knocks all our efforts into a cocked hat.

What is a cocked hat? And why are things knocked into one?

and feel the genuine love and affection for you out there - I'm sure the positive thoughts billowing round the ether will be working with the chemo and the radio to help banish those Bad Cells tout suite.

I bet even Bob Marley is sending some positive rastaman vibrations your way... ;-)

... he was going for chemo after missing a few shows recently. Saturday mornings (when I listen to the podcast) aren't the same without him.

Get well soon, Danny.

The next Sausage Sandwich game on the radio soon.
Very best wishes from all at Simmonds Towers.

...what a great writer. I have never been a big fan of him on TV, for some reason I can't put my finger on, and I don't think I've ever heard his radio show, but I did love his turn of phrase in the Facebook message. Good luck to him.

who, if the BBC had any sense, could create wonderful little progs like this by the bucketload

DB makes great radio. Hope he's well soon.

He's going to get better simply because we need another one of these this year.

been unable to speak, had tears in my eyes, shushed everyone to catch the end of a sentence, giggled uncontrollably, swooned to long forgotten sounds, laughed out loud and fallen in love with a bloke because of Danny Baker. It was Danny Baker.

Just get well soon and get back where you belong soonest, you hear?

Bestest wishy things Danny, from me.

BBC London Needs you Candyman! What are we to do after Robert Elms? Laughter is the best medicine you know. Get well soon and come back where you belong.

For as long as I can remember you've been the vanguard of intelligence and wit on the radio.

If best wishes and general goodwill can somehow translate into cancer-fighting particles, then take as much as you need.

Warmth and hugs from myself and the Mrs. Back where you belong soon as, please.

From an occasional but hugely appreciative listener.

No, scratch that. THE best radio broadcaster in the country.

Back when I was a student in 1993 I used to set the alarm for 6.30am so I could catch all of DB's Morning Edition on Radio Five (no podcasts for us back then, current students don't even know they've been born...). Yes, you read that right: a student waking up at 6.30am, on purpose - that's how good he is.

Get well soon, Danny.

I'd get up at 6.30am and take the dog out until the show had finished.I'd listen on the walkman radio and walk for 2 hours. happy days

my favourite broadcaster. I love his enthusiasm, wit and intelligence. It's great to have someone on the airwaves who will not settle for lowest common denominator platitudes. Get well soon, and may you hoy hoy well into the future

about Danny Baker is that no matter how much he gives of himself, how much of the airwaves he is given to be himself or how many words he crams into a show, an appearance, a guest slot or even a missive from the trenches of the C word I always want more. Not many broadcasters I can say that about.

Get well soon. The rehabilitation of the music of the band Chicago is not yet complete.

during the world cup when the BBC suddenly developed some sense and brought Mr Baker on to give his views, naturally the show went somewhere else entirely and showed what television punditry could be if it only cared.
Get well soon.

Get plenty of fried egg sandwiches down you and Black Pudding & Guinness suppers is good for the blood count....

....although previous threads here have hinted at his illness. Hope he's okay and gets through this. I'm sure he will.

I've been a fan since those 20th Century Box and 6 O'Clock Show days. Loved the Word podcast he did (please get him back on again once he's fit and well,)and that radio show he did on the day of John Martyn's death with always stick with me.

I've been on holiday so a few weeks behind on my 5 live Baker breakfast shows so still have his most recent show to listen to.

Get well soon Candyman.

But I really couldn't imagine Saturday mornings without it now.

All the very, very best Danny.

Chin up old bean, you've an helluva team rooting for you.

James

You're the top man and we want you back doing what you do best.

Good luck, sir.

All the best Candyman

..as a podcast on Saturday mornings a week after they're broadcast, they're a highlight of my week.
Get well soon, son.

being as avid a follower of Mr Baker as most of you but I remember him fondly from 606, his too short lived chat show and of course his early TV career with Janet Street-Porter. His appearance on BBC during The World Cup showed me what I've been missing on his radio show. When he's better I must make sure I listen in. I wish him well in his recovery anyone who generates this amount of love and good wishes must be doing something right I suppose he can't help being a Millwall supporter!

I understand from previous posts that he shares my affection for Gilbert O'Sullivan. This song seems appropriate, get well soon.

wife is currently undergoing chemotherapy, I can only sympathise with Danny and his family. It is a hard road and an emotional roller-coaster.
Obviously we don't know the nature of his cancer, but all we can do is wish him well and hope for the best outcome.

Not as witty or erudite as some of the posters here, so:
That's horrible news.
Best wishes to Danny and his family.
Listening to his show is a highlight, and one that I carve time for in a busy week. I can't really offer any higher praise, or affection for someone I've never met.

Radiotherapy eh. Best wishes Danny will be missing you and thinking of you in the afternoons. Get well soon.

Danny has the great gift of wild understatement in most of what he does. Loved him on the Word podcasts, the World Cup and that tribute to OGWT was both witty and reverential in equal measure. He knows what's good for us, and we're lucky to have him. Get well Mr Baker.

Meanwhile, remember Danny this way

Hope the next few months aren't too bad for him :-(

I'm a long-time listener and admirer - Get well soon. You're needed back on board.

Extremely sad news about Danny.

Like many, I have travelled with him from station-to-station over the years and have always been amazed and amused by his broadcasting skills, particularly when accompanied by his own Dr. Watson, Danny Kelly. His ability to draw an entertaining anecdote from any caller including the most reticent or the plain insane is always a joy to behold.

I am sure that his antipathy to "self-regarding nonsense" may make him skip past these overwhelming messages of goodwill but I hope he gets to understand the deep wells of loyalty he has generated across his incredible career.

I have waited patiently for him to revisit the subject of "unlikely combination of words/statements" so I can submit the photographic evidence of the time my wife called to me from the kitchen: "The cat has knocked over the milk and it looks like Jamiroquai".
I hope I get the opportunity to share it with him soon..

And, don't forget, it was Danny who claims to have discovered The Fall.

Best of luck with the treatment, Danny. You are bigger than this frightful pestilence.

We look forward to you returning to your rightful place at the top of the tree.

I am genuinely shocked. Bit behind with the podcasts so hadn't picked this up at all. Good luck Dan. Get well soon and let's have you back where you belong.

Loved his shows since I first heard him on Radio1 on weekends in the 90s.

Turmoil.
Any More Pie?
countless other examples

Good luck and good health, it would be lovely to hear him on The Word Podcast again when he's back, it's like it was made for him.

http://www.internettreehouse.co.uk/audio/pie1.mp3
http://www.internettreehouse.co.uk/audio/pie2.mp3
http://www.internettreehouse.co.uk/audio/piefilm.mp3

Absolute, unadulterated genius on every level.

It was terrible news this week and really left me taking stock of what we have enjoyed from Danny over the years. He'll get better, of this I am sure, he seems a born fighter - as many a station manager has found out.
Fabulous on Radio 1, tremendous on Radio 5, sublime on Talk Radio (the only decent thing on it, to be honest) and utterly, ridiculously entertaining on Radio London. Why would an Irish fella like me, living in Liverpool, tune in most days to Radio London on the internet?
The high point was the All Day Breakfast Show programmes for Wippit, each had more ideas in one show than many broadcasters can sustain in an entire career.
That's still the case - in the first five minutes of each show he just spews gold ideas for the audience to riff off. He comes up with it on the tube, gets to it and it works.
But, the key to it is he is really interested in what the audience has to say and he loves laughing at what they come up with. That's why Wittertainment works too, they value the engaged audience more than themselves.
Can't see Moyles or other jocks of their standing willing to allow the audience to trump him.
Danny, get better soon, you've been one of the staples of my life for years.

*edit*

I dont think anything on the radio has ever made me laugh so much.

Get better Dan.

I was embarrassed by just how much this news upset me. In fact, Danny is in that narrow category of personal heroes I have that I admire *so* much that I actually never mention them to my friends because I couldn't bear to hear them potentially maligned. I've found so many great films, authors and music thanks to hearing about them on his shows. I wish him the very speediest of recoveries so he can bring the world more gems like the following, in addition to some of the corkers already mentioned upthread:

* The story of the lady who, when remote controls were first invented, irritated her children by concealing the thing and claimed to be changing the channel because of her 'magic powers'.

* The Holy Rolling man and his journey across India. Accompanied (according to Dan) by a trad Jazz band.

* Godspeed You Black Emperor's epic 'Dead Flag Blues' re-imagined as Daniel Levy addressing the rest of the Tottenham Board, with Dan as a reporter providing helpful commentary/ interpretations. ("Mr Levy not taking the upbeat view so far...")

* Danny's last show for Radio One which featured long time listener Charles infiltrating the Odeon in Nottingham with some friends to throw an impromptu party because the film playing (Independence Day) sucked. Terrifying and hilarious to hear unfold.

* The same show playing out with Harry Nilsson's utterly gorgeous version of "How About You" and then Dan signing off with "That was the most entertaining three years of your life."

He never said a truer word. Wishing him (and all of us) many, many more such entertaining years.

...the first time I knew of Danny Baker (too young for the NME days).

In our 'ouse, we (well me and me old Dad) liked the fact that there was someone *less* posh than us on the telly who was not playing the 'help' or a spiv.

Danny, you are a radio genius.
Get well immediately!

Get well, soon.

Going through daily radiotherapy myself at the moment - and that's bad enough - it takes over your life.

Keep going man, you know it makes sense....

I only came across Danny in that now legendary Word podcast special and from there found his Saturday morning podcast. I joined the select band who appreciate the wit of the Sausage Sandwich game and was totally hooked on the mysterious wonder of "Monkeys dressed as famous people". I have tried to intoduce the game to GLW but she alas a lesser person has not embraced it.
I download the podcast and play it on my long early drive to Dublin on a Monday morning. Since Danny's illness that trip is not the same.

So from me Danny get well soon - we are living in dark times and need your light.

ps. I like mustard in my sausage sandwich.

from the Narrow the Angle football blog
http://bit.ly/bx16KV

This podcast ran for about nine months in 2007. The intention was that Danny, Amy, Phil Wilding, Baylen and David Kuo would do three a week for the download company Wippit (don't look for it, it's not there) costing £2.
Danny and the Treehouse kids got screwed, it appears, but what was produced was the best radio ever produced - for the most part.
You can download the free ones now at http://www.theadbs.co.uk/.
Fill yer boots, they are incredibly funny and show how great the man is when let off the leash. They will make the trip to Dublin swing, they are a pip and a dandy and the hat will be on the side of the head after listening.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/nov/07/danny-baker-cancer-national-...

Here's to you enjoying Christmas and recovering safe and sound, Danny Baker. I write from Australia...we're just some more fans, but will toast you on the day. Keep watching the funny DVDs and doing the endorphins.

I think I have listened to you almost daily since you first began broadcasting, and wow, do I miss you! I hope you read this and all the other postings, so you can know how much you are loved by your listeners. I have discovered much of the music I have loved over the years through your enthusiastic recommendations and I am always grateful for that! You obviously have a great family to be with you whilst you have treatment so take care, get behtter and come back to us when you're ready.

until I stumbled across his podcasts a year or so ago (I'm in Oz). He exuded such warmth and wit that I was quickly entranced, and they have become my favourite fuzzy-blanket podcast that I listen to when I'm feeling a bit down, or when I wake at two in the morning with the troubles of the world on my mind.

Quite simply, a world with Danny in it is a much better place. He will get better, because, as he says, the genius switch has no off position.

Best broadcaster on radio, bar none. Get well soonest, and hope he enjoys all the red sauce on his sausage sandwiches for decades to come.

Can anyone point me towards a site where I can download his All Day Breakfast Shows? All the links I can find appear broken.
I need my weekly DB fix.

see Paddy's post above.That worked fine

Quite apart from being a brilliant broadcaster, Danny was also a wildly funny writer, in particular his singles reviews for the NME. Do any links exist?

This is why he is the best in the business - no-self regarding pics in Heat or wherever - just some words from Sheridan. Superb, get well soon.
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?created&&note_id=175972235750601

Found this lurking in the commments section of Mr Kelly's Guardian piece
http://www.twohundredpercent.net/?page_id=1380

Me old 93 year old Mum's back in hospital (after falling over again fracturing her collarbone), my best mate has just survived a Kidney removal and now I read that David Essex's better looking brother is undergoing treatment for cancer! What is the world coming to?
Get well soon Candyman and I wouldn't be surprised if it was the stress of the ill fated wipit Podcasts that caused this terrible disease. You don't deserve it, so hurry on back to Wendy and the airwaves.

...to tell a story about the day some rock-a-boogie beat group came into the record shop where he was working...

in a silk kimono.

Sorry girls, etc.

does anyone have a copy of the article, presumably from the NME.

How about that for a conversation - Danny Baker and Mark E Smith, two of the greatest ever Englishmen, cultural sponges and iconic illustrators of our times, modern-day Blakes.

Baker's incredible capacity for uncovering unimaginable topics for discussion make his audiences step up, like an adult education show 'n' tell class for mature-age students.

Baker's humour, his laughter, his way with words, his self-deprecation, his trained ear spotting the wooden bowtie-wearing footy fan among his listeners. Genius is an over-used word but who could doubt this man fits the bill.

Danny, best wishes for your fight - your family, real and extended, needs you.

The Sausage Sandwich Game awaits you. Monkeys dressed as famous people with fairground music awaits comissioning for tv. Saturdays just ain't the same just now, but hey, take as long as you need. The big C is a bugger but it will be beaten. If anyone can beat it, you can. I've never done this 'well wishing' thing before, it can be a bit worthy and insincere. But you are different, you are worth every kind word that comes your way. Very best wishes from the Scottish Massive...

All our wishes go to you Candyman.The best broadcaster in the world.You bring a smile to our face evertime you are on the air. Kegger

3pm today

http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/radio/presenters/danny_baker/