I – or rather, Robin Cooper – was on Danny Wallace’s XFM Breakfast Show today as I am every Friday. Well, this time I was on the phone. I/Robin felt it necessary to discuss the topic on everybody’s lips at the moment: Mr C and all those wolves… Thanks to @dedboy2000 for the image. Nice [...]

I made this phone call many years ago. It’s short and sweet. And very silly.

Here’s an oldie. About 10 years ago, Nigel Pivaro – the actor who played Terry Duckworth from Coronation Street (massive British soap for all non Britishers) – was on the radio. The station was LBC, a London based talk channel, and I called in claiming to have been an extra on the show. Ahhh… what [...]

Here’s another bit of silliness from my old LBC radio phone-in calls. This time a gardening show, in which I tried to see how long I could read from a gardening book, whilst pretending it was in the form of a question. I remember my brother was in the room at the time, laughing, and [...]

This is a phone call I made many years ago to LBC in London. It’s one of my favourites just because it’s so gentle and basically completely pointless. The subjects up for discussion were, ‘How many hours sleep do you need each night?’ and, ‘Have you seen this terrible new logo they’ve designed for London?’ [...]

Yes, it’s another slice of telecommunication stupidity. This time to the lovely Beverly Hills Hotel. And what a charming sales person. OK, it’s 6 minutes long, but hope you titter…. My proudest moment? ‘Scraps’.

This was definitely worth £9 added to my (well, Baal’s) phone bill: And what a lovely, genuine smile she had, particularly after I said, “Aren’t wars terrible?”. More Baal nonsense here.

Well, I couldn’t quite believe how this live on-air phone call to semi madman Gilbert Deya went. I guess, if you ever have pain in your buttocks, just do what I did: Couldn’t resist slipping the word ‘bum’ in there. Just once. Did you hear it? PS – What? You never bought my book?