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clott south · Guest

Apart from satisfying your lust LBDS I can see no valid reason for bringing Danny Baker to Radio 2. And give you give us any reason why he want to. Can you not just enjoy him where he currently his instead of trying to inflict the oaf on us?! Smile

Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 3:33 pm Post subject:

The big assumption is that it is 6music or radio2 listeners who are download Mr Baker's efforts, It may be ERCC using it to scare the kids away from Beverley Bus Station.
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Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:35 am Post subject:

True, Evans and Baker were perhaps at their TV peak at the time, but then they'd only got there because of several years graft and name-making mainly on the late lamented and much revered BBC GLR radio station. Which, of course one M. Bannister used to run very successfully.

It was the GLR connection, as much as any incidental tv profile, that got Evans and Baker on Radio 1.

It just goes to show that what works on local radio does not always transfer to the national stage.
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mcl · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:02 pm Post subject:

Much as I like Baker, I think he may come unstuck with the podcast idea - there are rumblings on other forums that there have been quite a few duff ones of late, and if that continues paying £2 a week may not be a viable option.

If he can keep up the standard he may be OK, but if he exhibits the same symptoms he and Evans had in the bad days of TFI Friday (lazy, poorly thought out, back-of-a-beermat ideas, self-indulgence etc.), he might be well advised not to count his chickens.

He should be on Radio 2 where I can hear him for the cost of the licence fee anyway - it might persuade me to tune back to 88-91!
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Simply put keep this East End Barrow Boy where he is.

A truly terrible DJ/presenter imho.

No way is he worthy of a slot on a national radio station.

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Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:22 am Post subject:

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Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:41 pm Post subject:

Big smoke local radio doesn't make it as far as the North, and my speakers are currently detached from my PC.
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Danny's 'All Day Breakfast Show' gets its second Radio Times review.
Yup! The jolly old podcast, and Wippit! - Page 121 of next weeks' issue. Somebody there must really love him...

"The warmest and funniest radio show ever conceived for a podcast-only audience from the rightly titled 'future of radio', Danny Baker."

(Attention, Radio 2!)
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Mark Mayhew · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2897

Absolutely spot on.

Danny Baker-a total waste of space.

I remember his dire appearances as the host of 606-what happened here-he was fired for being rubbish.

Keep the East End barrow boy off Radio 2 at all costs-truly terrible-one man who if he were a Mars bar would want to "eat himself".

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Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:50 am Post subject:

Danny Baker

GLR 1989-90
Radio 5 1990-93
Radio 1 1993-96
GLR 1996-97
Talk Radio 1997-99
Virgin Radio 1999-2000
BBC London 2001-

This man is a radio hobo, unable to settle down until he found his niche in BBC local radio - is this the 'talent' that we want on radio2 - I think not!

There are plenty of talented people who have proved themselves at Radio2 with out resorting to the BBtalent book or the style fof zoo radio emenating from Messrs Wright and Baker.
What radio 'Talent' requires 3 sidekicks to do a radio show?
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From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil

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Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 2:11 pm Post subject:

Lady B

I will grant that Danny Baker is more talented than Pete Mitchell, but there again, so's Yeast.

As for Deadly, Boggy and Fran, they serve a function on the program, that of news readers, whereas Lynn does the travel.

Steve's 'Posse', like Baker's sidekicks are there to shore up the ego of the main presenter.
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From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil

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howard66 · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 43

Lady potato's not still rabitting on about Baker.

Nothing changes here in three years!

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Saturday, August 25, 2007
Radio One More Time: The University Of Turmoil

We fear change

Danny Baker's arrival at Radio One should have been a triumph. And, in many ways, it was. Baker was fresh from the old Radio Five, quitting just a couple of months ahead of the network closing down to make way for Five Live - "when I suggested I might be going to Radio One, they weren't that bothered...". Although he hadn't managed to single-handedly save the station, he did at least pull it together to such a position that it was able to live out its final days in some sort of dignity. The "Morning Edition - and stick with it" baseball caps notwithstanding.

However, Baker was given a tricky beat - the old DLT slot, still warm from the departing dudgeon of the beared one, and probably the slot with the most conservative of all Radio One programmes. Gone was the snooker and the reassuring tales of life on a home counties farm with a Swedish wife, in came callers putting on rollerskates two sizes too small zooming over bubble wrap and a cast that included a Radio Five newsreader, the former editor of the NME and a man who sounded, well, working class.

The sudden shift in style was something of a leap - certainly bigger than Matthew Banister's other changes, such as the gentle fading out of Simon Bates to make room for Simon Mayo. In fact, Baker admitted to Mojo that he didn't even have a radio style as such: he just did what he thought radio was - a lot of talking with records plucked from a pile on the basis of what you want to hear next.

If Danny Baker is a bit of a acquired taste, the strongest thing on the menu was The University of Turmoil. Over the course of the programme, Danny Kelly would select images from that day's newspapers, usually of alarmed or worried looking people or animals, stick them on pieces of paper with the word "Turmoil" written on them - maybe with an inappropriate headline added on for good measure. The last page would deviate from the formula with the appearance of the phrase "WE FEAR CHANGE". Towards the end of the programme, Kelly would pass over the folder and - seeing his handiwork for the first time - Baker would attempt to describe the contents to the audience, hoping to get through the feature before his head hurt too much from laughing.

You had to be there. It was inspired.

Although, admittedly, not everyone who was there agreed.

Baker became the focus for most of those upset by the new sound of the station - quickly losing the Sunday slot, and eventually losing the Saturday one as well. However, by taking most of the heat generated over the new schedules, Baker effectively bought the space for the other changes to bed down and saved Radio One in a way that Chris Moyles could only dream of.

The University Of Turmoil resurfaced - just once - a couple of months ago on Baker's BBC Radio London show, for the first time in over a decade. It still is bloody inspired.

[Celebrating 40 years of Radio One: Radio One More Time]

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James said...
This show was fantastic. I loved how the phone-in subjects were absurdly specific - While local commercial radio was asking us to join their latest battle-of-the-sexes debate ("Giggly sidekick Sharon says women are the best drivers, but I know that's rubbish, so tell us what you think!"), Danny Baker was asking us to call him if we knew someone who almost had the same name as a celebrity, but not quite ("My boss is called Les O'Connor", etc). And yet it always worked, and it was a hoot.

My favourite stunts were when he was as testing out cartoon theories. One was a man cycling down a hill into a pond, to see if his hat followed him above water. Another was a caller filling a trumpet with soap to see if notes came out in bubbles when played.

I remember seeing DLT on one of those documentaries about the Radio 1 changes a few years ago. It was a long time after his replacement (Baker had long gone), but he still clearly hadn't accepted it. He explained how a fellow old-guard DJ had phoned him during Baker's first show and gasped "Have you HEARD what they've done to your show?!". Neither could believe that snooker on the radio had been replaced by a phone-in asking listeners if they'd ever got a child's sucker-based toy stuck to their foreheads.

And yes, Turmoil was fantastic...
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SantaFefan · Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 1:02 pm Post subject:

Well, reading all of that has reminded me of how much I hated the changes to Radio 1, particularly when DLT went.
I don't actually remember Baker's show but I certainly didn't like him at the time, or for many years after that ( Gazza Baker Evans clan. )
Horses for courses.....
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Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:09 pm Post subject:

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Scott_Nelson · Guest

The good news is Danny Baker is replacing the talentless Sean Keaveny from January...plus Gideon Coe is to be moved back to mid mornings. Both Sean Keaveny and George Lamb have failed to make an impression on 6 Music.