Now I yield to no one in my admiration for her but could the problem be something to do with the fact that she's never done it before? When the producer goes on holiday, do they replace him with somebody from Accounts?

on and off for a few years now, mainly high days and holidays. She's okay with someone else, but not particularly funny, knowledgeable about music or easy on the ear on her own.

As a midlander these 28 years past, I can honestly say the words "and here's Les Ross" can strike more fear and Brummyphobia into me more than any other. That man blighted years of my life with his early morning shit, sorry "wit". And the bugger kept turning up at the same fetes as the Morris Side I was then in, back in the late 80s. A horrible waste of air.

She's getting me out of bed a good 5 minutes earlier because she grates so much.

now onto Radio 4 which i can tolerate and they play nearly as much music as everyone else. perhaps i should listen to that birdsong channel.

could do a radio programme ... (expansion etc)