Spotty Presenters Of A Different Sort!

There's no denying it. Even Noel Edmonds can't forget his first love!
A lot of Gotchas including the first ever one on The Saturday Roadshow in 1988 were based within radio, with the first recipient in question being Gloria Hunniford, coping with a B.A. who smashed up a record that was playing midway through on her Radio 2 show.

Four years later there was DLT's outburst, and then in 1993 Gary Davies was lured into Blobbyland to teach Mr Blobby how to become a DJ. Of course this was when Mr Blobby was funny as just part of the gotchas which a lot of people tend to forget before the whole thing went out of control stopping Take That from getting Xmas Number One.

And here we go with another of my prized possessions. The VHS of "One on 1" a documentary produced in 1988 based around a day in the life of BBC Radio 1. I'll never forget Gary Davies's part when he said that he hated having to record a radio show and nothing beat the buzz of live broadcasting. That and "Iiit's Just Coming Up To 12:45!" before hitting the jingle machine.

Gary wasn't treated very fairly at Radio 1. In 1992 he moved from his Bit In The Middle to Weekend Breakfast and a late night album tracks show where he played records from the likes of Steely Dan, Swing Out Sister and Eric Clapton. And a lot of Eric Clapton.

No seriously, the bosses at the top came in too soon after he started reiniventing himself and in December 1993 he was booted from Radio 1 joining Virgin 1215 which he wasn't afraid to reveal on air during his final shows.

Danny Baker who had by now taken over from DLT on weekend mornings said that "If you wanted to hear Layla over and over again, you could always listen to Virgin..." and guess who later ended up there!
Danny's reinvented himself however, and despite heavy use of "The Candyman" from Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory he's interviewed some great guests at BBC London including Ross Noble, Carleen Anderson, Sylvester McCoy and has always seemed really interested in them.

That's another addition to my to do list. Revisit the Blood on The Carpet documentary about Matthew Bannister's tenure at Radio 1 made in 2001. That was an interesting if slightly biased insight as the only DJ from the pre-Bannister era they interviewed was Adrian Juste!
A nice enough guy but he spent too much time using comedy clips from Monty Python, Morecambe and Wise and the Two Ronnies for my liking.

I did however end up laughing when he revealed how he resigned from the station and it made me realise that in some cases, DJs tend to have bigger egos than the management.
But then again Matthew did make quite a few drastic moves on his arrival at the station although that's understanding having been employed there 10 years earlier as a newsreader.

I've respected what Matthew Bannister did since his arrival as he always came across as relaxed when appearing in interviews including a couple on Live and Kicking with both Emma Forbes, and Zoe and Jamie respectively. And there were plenty of high points including Simon Mayo, Mark Goodier, Dave Pearce with "Mr Whippy's Organ", and those who came and went such as Clive Warren and Charlie Jordan.
I even remember her ID "She may have the same name as a bloke! But she's all woman!"
And I think I could use that line in one way or another come Freshers!