There was a radio comedy show in the 80s called Radio Active (later adapted for television as KYTV), starring Angus Deayton, Philip Pope, Michael Fenton Stevens, Geoffrey Perkins and Mrs Miggins herself, Helen Atkinson-Wood. It was, ostensibly, the first national local radio station "broadcasting to you locally, wherever you are in the nation".
The DJ names, for the most part, were hideous puns such as Anna Daptor, "Uncle" Mike Stand (the kiddies' favourite), Mike Flex, Mike Channel - and Mike Hunt. How they got that under the BBC radar we shall never know.
Their programming was equally puntastic: the local events roundup "What's Going On?", or make-at-home crafts show "So You Want To Make Something Of It?". However, one of my favourites was the Right Reverend Reverend Wright and his religious spot, "God Alone Knows".
The DJ names, for the most part, were hideous puns such as Anna Daptor, "Uncle" Mike Stand (the kiddies' favourite), Mike Flex, Mike Channel - and Mike Hunt. How they got that under the BBC radar we shall never know.
Their programming was equally puntastic: the local events roundup "What's Going On?", or make-at-home crafts show "So You Want To Make Something Of It?". However, one of my favourites was the Right Reverend Reverend Wright and his religious spot, "God Alone Knows".
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
