SATURDAY-NIGHT-JAPESMITHERY-in-waiting with bearded bouffanted melange of zany stunts
INITIALLY AFFABLE inventive bloke in oddly-named Sunday lunchtime slot Too Much Gravy
THE ORIGINAL - and best - Zany Bearded Funster
FIRST headlining outing for the Collins & Maconie double-act
QUIETLY forgotten original 'fans only' iteration of the popular footballing pisstake-fest
GARRULOUS genial garlic-scoffing gregarious Gallic gadabout undertaken by alliteration-crazed titular tubster Tom Vernon on his trusty two-wheeler 'The Roman Philosopher'
THE ULTIMATE in complaining-about-nothing shows
NOTE-PERFECT impersonator-facilitated recreation of lost Marx Brothers radio show
EXCRUCIATINGLY beardily-tradicraft-named Capstick-heralded slot of obvious musical leanings with the most schizophrenic content possible for a radio show
INEXPLICABLE attempt to make science 'hip'
ESSENTIALLY an audio equivalent to all those whopping great Muir-edited 'gift books' available exclusively at WH Smith every Christmas
THE FLUFFMEISTER'S loveable, never-changing, Brentford Nylons-flogging patter reverberated
OBSERVERITE daughter of Liberal gourmet and cat food salesman Clement installed by The Bannister on lunchtime show
BACHARACH-skewed counterpart to Radio 1's In Concert
BATES-FRONTED weekly phone-in discussion-driven 'youth issues' early evening magazine show
BURNETT-INSTIGATED lunchtime lafforama
YANK SMOOTH TALKER and memory machine
BIZARRE 'SIDEWAYS LOOK' at Glam Rock from a media career-courting Noddy Holder
THE MAN, or so the jingles had it, Who's Got The Best Music
MUCH-MISSED master of tape-fiddling
Quasi-legendary, verging on the 'notorious' end of the scale, radio vehicle for the five-piece purveyors of finest 'joke'n'roll' whimsy.
RADCLIFFE AND KERMODE-alternating Walters’ Weekly-inspired arts show
BACK in the seventies and eighties, the diminutive Hamilton divided his time between his Radio 2 afternoon show and Thames continuity duties
Much-loved unhinged pastiche of ye olde 'Boys Own'-style publications and attendant tales of "derring-do and derring-don't" and features on improving outdoor hobbies
SEDATELY BEARDED and unchallenged king of American FM-style "and to take us up to the 3am news, here's a couple of classic...
RADIO cottoned on to the TV Burper-in-waiting long before TV did
BROUGHT IN to temporarily replace a Late Late Breakfast Show-occupied Noel Emonds
LANGUID CALEDONIAN hardcore counterculturalism representative of the 'chatting to members of Barclay James Harvest late at night' persuasion
EARLY ATTEMPT at half-hour speech comedy format with the aid of Patrick ‘Marby’ Marber
LONGSTANDING regular engagement for those two men posing as elderly female academics
REVERENTIALLY-referenced late-night Fall-honouring Radcliffe-helmed 'alternative music' slot
DOUGLAS ADAMS' superior sci-fi send-up, as overenthusiastic towel-wielding blokes hunting for off-airs of Marvin on Studio B15 are wont to remind you...
PETER JACKSON-trouncing epic-length Tolkein adaptations
'THATCHER'-lampooning Yes, Minister-riffing Tolkein parody fun from the pens of 'APR Marshall and JHW Lloyd'
EARNEST DIMINUTIVE bearded rock-centric early seventies mainstay
EMERGENCY STANDBY meeting of 'blarney' quota during Old Tel's wanderings in televisual Peter Egan-interviewing
Bring Me The Head Of Alf-Radio Cream-o Garcia!
NOW BETTER KNOWN as the supreme overload of sweary heavyweight satire, but in a former life a gag-friendly tape-fiddling indie DJ for...
STRANGEST concept ever for a childrens' show
HISTORICALLY and technologically-displaced ritual with unchanging regular-as-clockwork format
'DANGEROUS' late-night live psuedo-alternative comedy sketches from Nick Wilton, Helen Lederer, Steve Brown and Clive Mantle.
'SOME POSHOS OFF THE RADIO' - ie Emma Thompson and the Who Dares Wins lot - perform a bunch of old Douglas...
'RED BOX' fiasco-presaging stint as a phone-in Agony Uncle
PIONEERING bandleader-turned-DJ who single-handledly dragged the BBC out of the chaps-in-suits era by playing nothing but pesky 'gramaphone records'
ADVANCED-LEVEL Big Band-fixated roller-back-of-the-clock extraordinaire
Ineffectual weekend early morning frontman
"MORNIN' MORNIN', Jameson 'ere!". Unfortunately.
ONE OF the last chapters of David Jason's pre-fame 'difficult period'
FRESH-FACED Canadian blond smoothie
MILD CONTROVERSY-courting series of only very slightly 'mock' lectures examining "the vicissitudes of modern living"
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