Now that Danny Baker has been sacked from Radio London do you think he will go back to hosting quiz shows like this?
Not sacked as such, contract terminated on cost grounds. BBC now busily taking the 'local' out of local programming, all stations will broadcast the same stuff in the evenings. Rather defeats the point, methinks. Baker is a top broadcaster, outstanding on the radio much less so on TV.
Agree with that sb, I would really miss him on Saturday mornings. I loved it when he paired with Danny Kelly in the 90's I think. What real radio should be.
Try to make a point of catching his Saturday show now, but also loved the Kelly years - 'we fear change' written on the foreheads of photos in the papers - how could that be so funny on the radio? And Smoke on the Water riff played on different bizarre instruments (harp my favourite). He quite clearly loves really involving his audience, is never patronizing and is genuinely full of ideas. Great man
I loved it when he invited input from people watching players, famously someone who rang in having followed Paul Jewell was it? around a pound shop, or one where Stuart Pierce, fed up with the strict pasta diet his manager insisted on, asked a waiter to make him a bacon butty and when he was tucking in in secret under a tree the waiter told his manager and they all enjoyed watching Stuart getting an unmerciful bollocking when he was caught! They probably didn't really happen,but priceless radio nonetheless!
Rant from final radio London show.... [video=youtube;E75YDB6Q5BI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E75YDB6Q5BI[/video]
I remember one show where someone called in while in a film matinee one afternoon and he and his mates were dotted around the place, when it came to a slow bit he shouted out "this film is rubbish, let's have a party!" and turned on the boom box he'd hidden and all his mates got up to dance around. All live on the radio show, I was sat there pissing myself. Instead of Baker having a laugh we will now get generic music, generic travel and generic regional news. Rubbish.
