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PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:05 pm    Post subject: Danny Baker Reply with quote

Some of you are screaming for Danny Baker presence on Radio 2. I have decided that he will be welcomed to the network in the very near future. He is trying to chisel himself into the network in a different type of way.

Welcome soon too DB? Very Happy


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PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nah, he can stay were he is thanks
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:58 pm    Post subject: Re: Danny Baker Reply with quote

mark occomore wrote:
I have decided that he will be welcomed to the network in the very near future. Welcome soon too DB? Very Happy


'I' have decided??

You are Lesley Douglas and I claim my £5 !

Check the new 'All Day Breakfast Show' podcast out Mark. Peter Kay, Tiny Tim and David Kuo - all in the same show! LD should just transmit this! Prefereably in one of Dermot or Dutta's hours!
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

no
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(to DB)
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:52 pm    Post subject: Re: Danny Baker Reply with quote

mark occomore wrote:
I have decided that he will be welcomed to the network in the very near future.


That's nice of you Mark. I feel better now.

Personally I don't like Baker in anything more than small doses, but I'm relieved that you're happy at the prospect.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Absolutely not.

NB-Mark O-since when have you asumed the position of the Fat Controller eg "I have decided........"
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

And (mark-o), it's "chisel" not "chissel" by the way.

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Know I'm biased, but I think many underestimate how worthy Baker's talents now are for R2 given the bland and often crude alternatives from messrs O'Leary, Brand and Co. that are coming to the network instead.

I'd really urge anyone who han't tried him in the last 15 years to re-appraise. I genuinely think some will be pleasantly surprised. It's like Wogan but fresh and contemporary.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Lady Boil De Spudswell-I take my hat off to you-you must be the biggest Danny Baker fan on the planet.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mark Mayhew wrote:
Hi Lady Boil De Spudswell-I take my hat off to you-you must be the biggest Danny Baker fan on the planet.


Hmm, not quite...

http://www.internettreehouse.co.uk/

It's just that in a radio world rapidly filling with unedifying, vacuous, tv orientated mediocrity, Baker shines a light of intelligent, creative, imaginative freshness that holds values true to the medium of radio. Theatre of the mind. Appriase his work now if you don't believe me.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like the late evening TV show that Baker hosted back in god-knows-when. That was fun - a sort of precurser to the J.Ross thing on BBC1 but a helluva lot better. I remember one show on which his good friend Rick Wakeman appeared. Truly hilarious (and that's a somewhat over-used word these days!). I never realised until then what a great raconteur Wakeman is.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Danny Baker, Sony award winner,his breakfast show on the old Radio 5 was absolutely brilliant. I've still got his Christmas special with all his regular guests like Danny Kelly,Laurie Saur and Janet Elliss on tape and I dig it out for a listen every December.( Sad I know but I don't believe in Santa any more).
Ella,I remember the show with Rick,resplendant in a long great coat ,he told an hilarious story about smuggling uniforms out of Russia.

Bring Baker to Radio Two..you know it makes sense.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fog on the Tyne wrote:
Danny Baker, Sony award winner,his breakfast show on the old Radio 5 was absolutely brilliant. I've still got his Christmas special with all his regular guests like Danny Kelly,Laurie Saur and Janet Elliss on tape and I dig it out for a listen every December.( Sad I know but I don't believe in Santa any more).
Ella,I remember the show with Rick,resplendant in a long great coat ,he told an hilarious story about smuggling uniforms out of Russia.

Bring Baker to Radio Two..you know it makes sense.



Danny Baker's All Day Breakfast Show podcast - straight in at No.7 in the podcast chart after just one week and hardly any publicity! I'm impressed. Watch out R. Brand! Attention Lesley Douglas!

Where are Evans and Wogan's podcasts in this chart?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Remind me - how long did he last when parachuted in by (speaks in hushed tones in order not to wake the beast) Matthew Bannister
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Behind Geddon's Wall wrote:
Remind me - how long did he last when parachuted in by (speaks in hushed tones in order not to wake the beast) Matthew Bannister


I have been through the reasons why that particular appointment was never gonna work more times than I care to remember on the R2 board.

Sufficed to say Baker, who many have written off, must be doing something right on the radio now, in 2007, (not 1993 where some people believe he's still broadcasting!) to 'parachute' straight into No.7 in the download charts when others who have podcasts and are on national radio, are nowhere in that top 10.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Leopards and spots.
and the answer is?
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Behind Geddon's Wall wrote:
Leopards and spots.
and the answer is?


Simon King?

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lady Boil De Spudswell wrote:


Where are Evans and Wogan's podcasts in this chart?


They get enough listeners without having to resort to 'podcasts' Laughing Razz
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So whose Breakfast and Drivetime "Best Bits" podcasts are being constantly plugged on Wonderful Radio Two then?

Ella Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Was only joking.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know. Smile

They're very short podcasts apparently!!!

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Three years with falling ratings - now working for London's equivalent of Radio Humberside. Somehow this does not inspire confidence. Is john Noel his agent?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Behind Geddon's Wall wrote:
Three years with falling ratings - now working for London's equivalent of Radio Humberside. Somehow this does not inspire confidence. Is john Noel his agent?


Close - Noel Gay!

He chooses to work on BBC London because, as he said to Evans on the double header, they are one of the few stations to allow him creative freedom - thank God!

As we know, he's had meetings with R2 in the past so they evidently want him, but evidently on their terms of formulaic presentation and music.

Only when Lesley has the balls to relax things a little more - as she is already doing with Russell Brand - might we see a signed contract.

I personally suspect the No.7 podcast will inspire her confidence in his popularity.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Personally, I wouldn't put Russell Brand up as a shining example of quality radio. If this is the level we are to expect if DB comes to R2 then Heaven help us. As for artistic freedom - Wright is free to be annoying and Evans is free to be Very annoying. I'll be free to listen even less should DB make the leap from local to national radio.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Behind Geddon's Wall wrote:
Personally, I wouldn't put Russell Brand up as a shining example of quality radio. If this is the level we are to expect if DB comes to R2 then Heaven help us. As for artistic freedom - Wright is free to be annoying and Evans is free to be Very annoying. I'll be free to listen even less should DB make the leap from local to national radio.


Put my name on the list as well, BGW. I find DB slightly less annoying than the other idiots, because I actually respect his musical knowledge, but I wish he'd calm down a bit sometimes.

BTW - I'm actually listening to WAVE FM here in Marbella at the moment. There's hardly any talk at all, and the mix of music is actually pretty good most of the time. The other day they did a 60s special (don't they all?) but the music selected wasn't the usual same old standards compiled by someone who was never there. We heard some stuff that we hadn't heard for years - much like SOTS, in fact (still the best 60s orientated radio programme on the planet by a long mile!).

The weather's lovely here today. We'll be taking a stroll into the Plaza de Los Naranjas later for a little drinkie and a bite to eat. Back home after Easter, alas. Oh well...

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Baker now up two places to No.5 in the podcast charts!!

Watch out Russell! He's gaining on ya!
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 10:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I caught the said Mr Baker on QI last Night - Does Radio 2 need another smug alleged comedian - I think not.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:49 am    Post subject: Re: Danny Baker Reply with quote

mark occomore wrote:
Some of you are screaming for Danny Baker presence on Radio 2. I have decided that he will be welcomed to the network in the very near future.


Sounds like you've decided that you're the Controller, Radio 2 as well!!!!!

Ella Smile
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