Johnny Owen

Johnny Owen presents a really good morning show on Signal 2.  Just wandering in and out of the kitchen now and again, I keep hearing so many wonderful bizarre things.  Being reminded of the names of a couple of his listeners, Kate and Sidney Pye, for example; the irrepressible Bob Blackman who will be fondly remembered by those of us of a certain age; the Double Dutch Elvis singing barely comprehensibly, but very Elvis-like; being reminded to get the brussels started about the beginning of December so they'll be ready on 25th...simple, trivial funny things seemingly just mentioned in passing, but no doubt requiring serious forethought.  He's great with the audience participation thing too. It's a different set of stuff every day and whether it be asking people to call or text in if they've ever been chatted up by a 'B/Z' List celeb., or any of 1,000,000 other fairly pointless questions, there always seems to be a bunch of Stokies who respond in spirit and with great humour and self-deprecation.

These days, I just can't deal any more with a DJ's inane babble - I happily make an exception in Johnny's case.