There's nothing more irritating than going to bed with a tickly throat, resulting in me wheezing.
I'm guessing that's more a less a punishment for the rather cutting things that have come out of it whilst up in the radio rooms but when you've got a lot of people making stupid in-jokes or messing about, it's difficult to resist.
As planned, I made sure I was up at around 9am to listen to the repeat of last Sunday's
Desert Island Discs with Janet Street Porter being interviewed.
There were plenty of wide ranging choices including George Formby which Janet was rather reluctant to choose as it came into the category of a song that reminded her of when she was younger. There were also a few more up to date examples such as "Unfinished Sympathy" by Massive Attack or "Massive" as they were known at the time of release due to the first Gulf War in 1991.
One of the more interesting choices was The Pet Shop Boys and their Christmas number one "Always On My Mind" which Janet had chosen as she had asked Neil and Chris to appear on a children's programme that she produced for ITV where they refused to wear paper bags over their heads but after they went round to Janet's house for dinner they became friends since and have always been up for send up.
I'm guessing the show in question that they appeared on was "Get Fresh" which was the first Saturday morning show of it's kind to be presented from a different location each week produced by a different ITV region, through the use of a mobile studio or
"The Millennium Dustbin" as it was known.
Janet also spoke about Network 7 that was made around the same time and how she didn't like how some of the "dated" gimmicks such as on screen tickers still continue to be used by many of the rolling news channels not just in the UK but all over the world.
It has to be said however that the programme was more or less responsible for changing and influencing the way television programmes are made to an extent and she tends to undersell herself as the programme's producer.
There was also talk about the "success" that was L!VE TV in the mid 90s and taking part in
"I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here" in late 2004 where she was superb. They mentioned her rather steamy relationship with Paul Burrell although the funniest part was when she got into a row with Brian Harvey after he broke wind near the cooking stove, resulting in him making an early exit.
I'd imagine Janet's more well known in London having appeared throughout the 1980s as one of the team members on London Weekend Television's light hearted Friday evening magazine "The 6 O'Clock Show" which was hosted by Michael Aspel alongside other regulars Fred Housego and Danny Baker.
That brings to mind a rather amusing out-take when they recorded a special edition of the show in Southend and Danny played a man on an ice cream man asking Michael
"how would you like crushed nuts?"
As an aside, Digital Spy have uploaded a selection of photos of an individual who probably has more mentions on my blog than anyone at University. That being Bob Holness although he is a Pinner resident just a few stops on the Met line from here.
I'd imagine that a lot of the examples in that selection have christened many a photo frame over the years although if you look at the final one it's safe to say that unlike Bruce Forsyth, he's probably getting on a bit rather quickly despite being the same age.
Bob must be one of the only people along with Matthew Kelly, who is associated with a catchphrase that isn't even his line.
Whoever thought that he would be the ideal choice to present Blockbusters must have chosen him by accident as such successes can't be planned.
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