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Sarah Wade
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What Time Is it Eccles?
Spike from The Goon Show, 1958 Classical music in the morning, jazz in the afternoons, half an hour for lunch (battenburg or a danish) and to open the French windows and talk to the birds. The Magic Roundabout at five to six and then a bath. "The public perception of Spike is this sc...
It's a Painful Business: On The Hour with Eddie Mair
"I've got my rum and coke," he says, as he saunters into a deserted Radio 4 Extra office. Eddie Mair in the Radio 4 Extra studio It's 7.50 am on a Wednesday morning. I've scrubbed out a R4 Extra mug specially in readiness for a demanding, adrenalin-fuelled presenter. (Along with ...