ARCHETYPAL 'lets the music do the talking' (ie dull patter, tinted pilot spectacles etc) jock
DEEPLY ODD show
UNREMARKABLE youthful mid-eighties recruit
Just A Minute is a long-running panel game where the wonderful chairman Nicholas Parsons [BZZZT: "He's not wonderful"]
TIME-HONOURED wacky-thumbs-aloft character, with permanent helium-hysterical microphone voice, who linked funny comedy clips
INITIALLY a stern-faced weekly science review, but when they realised nobody was listening shifted over to arts coverage
VOICEOVER-monopolising 'professional northerner' and Liz's rather more credible brother
UNSILENCEABLY northern 'earthy' humour-toting sister of Andy
AUDACIOUSLY fancying himself as the network's answer to Alistair Cooke
GRANGE HILL For Adults gambit charting the oft-comic trials and tribulations of a modern Secondary Modern as seen through the eyes of...
ONE OF those 'next big thing' jocks - Steve Wright-lite schtick, funny voices etc - who never quite made the breakthrough
LEE AND HERRING-swindling reimagining of On The Hour's 'sport'-obsessed Steve Coogan-portrayed reporter as an obnoxious chat show host
FLUFF-FRONTED mockery of all things History Of Rock-slanted
MELLOW-as-mellow-gets-voiced guitar legend-cum-Sunday evening post-Top Forty blues show frontman
UNLIKELY combination of trend-cyncial music journo Steve Lamacq and woman who booked the bands for The Word Jo Whiley
DOUGLAS ADAMS and conservationy pal Mark Cawardine set off on a globe-straddling shorts-ahoy Attenborough-aping animal odyssey
FIRST EVER UK-based commercial station, beating Capital to the air by that all-important couple of months, and offering up a heady mixture...
MIRTH-INDUCING EU-anticipating English Language version of the European Top Forty chart show
COMEDY DOUBLE-ACT first deployed in epochal razor sharp culturally-topical (i.e. jokes about Jamiroquai and Supermarket Sweep) sketch show Fist Of Fun
EIGHTIES-as-they-came sitcom featuring Alexei Sayle
CYNIC PAR EXCELLENCE of the R2 nightshift for the best part of 20 years of whom the dreaded TOGs offered approving words...
WEEKLY epistle with an Uncle Sam postmark from Alistair 'Lochaber No More' Cooke
FINAL resting place of the one-time broadcasting institution, by then very much on its last legs thanks to the machinations of Derek...
DEPENDABLE Chegger-siblinged presenter of the definitive Cream-era Evening Session
NED SHERRIN-led roundtable arts discussion pot-pourri
HIGH-CONCEPT Iannucci-instigated ‘Political Comedians Do Question Time’ gambit
SHORT-LIVED attempt at courting LBGT listenership to audible MP consternation
NOISY yoof-slanted and inevitably doomed to failure attempt at creating a hit new soap opera on the radio.
'SUNSHINE SHOW'-promising token million-o-clock-in-the-morning reggae jock
'MARK THOMAS WITH JOKES' series of heavily politicised sideways looks at thorny sociocultural issues
DECENT ENOUGH aural prelude to sixth-form comedy fave of the day
LAST GASP of the short-lived craze for 'improv comedy'
FROM Saturday Club hip young gunslinger (well, sort of) in the sixties, to the 21st century, which finds him in almost exactly...
RELATIVE longevity-boasting adopter of Tarrantesque zoo format for nationwide breakfast consumption
ANDY HAMILTON and Nick Revell were your hosts for a double-hander sketch show driven by proto-Lee & Herring gambit of Kelly Monteith-esque...
MISLEADINGLY-titled arts magazine show with nary a 'break'-toting DJ within earshot
NAVIGATION through the minefield of personal finance
WILD MAN Of Rock showcasing largely unacknowledged verbose whimsy skills as Peel summer replacement
EARLY SHOW ultra-dry behemoth of fond remembrance
LEGENDARY where-it-all-started morning miscellaney presided over by Danny Baker
SUSPENSION-PRONE local radio madman
Ultrasmooth compere of mid-morning roving doorchime-themed Open House
CHRONOLOGICALLY INSANE granting of weekly hour-long slot for Jonathan King
CONCURRENT companion piece panel shows both making heavy use of Frank Muir and Dennis Norden.
NUMERICALLY-INEXPLICABLE opportunity for everyone from Ozzy Osborne to Bobby Ball to pick out their twelve personal platters that mattered
INCOMPETENT banality-spouting sexist buffoon fired on air after a single ‘big launch’ show
OCCASIONALLY-NETWORKED locally-grown Caledonian sketch comedy and obvious precursor to the television show of largely the same name
HEADLINE-GUFFAWING weekly satire-lite hoedown.
STRAIGHT-TO-THE-POINT-CUTTING Radio One newsarama
FIRST female jock on Radio 1, cheerful big sister archetype turned largerette dance guru.
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