{"id":66,"date":"2006-11-19T19:27:48","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T18:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?p=66"},"modified":"2007-04-28T11:42:43","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T10:42:43","slug":"the-return-oflocal-radio-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"The Return of&#8230;Local Radio Man!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes!! Huzzah and hurrah!<\/p>\n<p>Local Radio Man is back!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently listening to the BBC Wales coverage of the Doctor Who Celebration (I&#8217;m getting images of a Peter Haining book and balloons flashing before my eyes) and, bless, they seem a lil bit bewildered by this whole Doctor Who thingy. Chris Cork-something is classic Local Radio Man. When asked if he was a fan, he replied, remembering he is at a huge Doctor Who event, &#8216;No.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>As usual, they spotted the one fan wearing the Tom Baker costume and interviewed him, rapidly backing away when he came within a close orbit of  saying something meaningfull&#8230;<br \/>\nHis interview with the lil kiddies was classic eighties Local Radio and his interview with David Tennant consisted of trying to a) get Tennant to speak in a Welsh accent and B) Ruggedly trying to get Billie Piper&#8217;s phone number.<\/p>\n<p>His main concern, to be honest, was explaining that his suit (from Debenham&#8217;s, apparently) was bought BEFORE the tenth Doctor was revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Pure nostalgia, listening to this chap&#8230;and indeed, the whole shebang cos frankly, the BBC Radio Wales presenting team are worth their weight in Gold&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>note..its now, apparently, pronounced Sy-COR-ax&#8230;which is nice&#8230;.Ill keep you posted as to what other howlers these guys come out with&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes!! Huzzah and hurrah! Local Radio Man is back! I&#8217;m currently listening to the BBC Wales coverage of the Doctor Who Celebration (I&#8217;m getting images of a Peter Haining book and balloons flashing before my eyes) and, bless, they seem a lil bit bewildered by this whole Doctor Who thingy. Chris Cork-something is classic Local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.staggeringstories.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}