Posts Tagged ‘ Stephen Nolan ’

Radio Five called me just as I was settling down to my tea on Friday, the producer of the Stephen Nolan show wanted to chat about the most recent of the irritating surveys about brummie accents. I’d been on before on TLABD, so I must be top of their contact sheet for “brummie that will do radio in the wee small hours”. Last time I went on I was still working for the Beeb so I made my own way to the studio and set myself up and so on, but now I don’t I was treated to the full “contributor” experience: taxis both was, a drink “a water only, Janice Long has drunk everything else” joked one of the Security guys. The Stephen Nolan show is from Manchester, so I was sat in a tiny studio in Brum on my own with nothing but a mic and a pair of “cans” (see I know all the terms) – I went in at about eleven pm, expecting to be on about ten past, but a voice came over the talkback “we’re talking about paedophiles on Facebook now, we’ll get to you for about  11:30″. So I popped out of...

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