More Classic Danny Baker Radio 5 live Clips

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BBC radio presenter Danny Baker is being treated for cancer (bbc.co.uk)
Get Well soon Danny Baker (tvtrigger.wordpress.com)
Classic Danny Baker Radio (tvtrigger.wordpress.com)

Classic Danny Baker on Radio 5 Live

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We hope Danny is coping well after recently being diagnosed with cancer. We’re all missing him on the radio (and tellybox), so here’s a few classic bits found on youtube. Ahoy hoy candyman.

First clip is Teletext Alex replacing all the words in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ with footballers names. Get a cup of rosy lea and enjoy…

Fraser Digby’s Washbag

And the sausage sandwich game with El Tel when it was known as “Oi.. Do me a Favour”..

After Danny Baker’s cancer news I’ve realised he’s a national treasure (guardian.co.uk)
BBC radio presenter Danny Baker is being treated for cancer (bbc.co.uk)

Danny Baker – Get Well Soon

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On Monday I posted a selection of Peter Kay adverts, one of them featuring Danny Baker. Later on that afternoon it was announced on his blog that Danny has cancer. I had no advance knowledge of this. (I normally do adverts on the 1st of the month – you can check that on the stats).

Danny is a hero of mine. I once knocked on his door as a market researcher, he politely said no, and I rang his radio 1 show that weekend and jovially asked the producer if he wanted to do the survey on air. They never called me back. I did speak to the great man again on Virgin radio, when I told him the Dali Llama was staying in my street, and had bumped my neighbours car (true story).

Danny is a radio legend. Before the illness, you could catch him 5 days a week for just two hours a day on BBC London 94.9 FM and saturday mornings on 5live also two hours 9am-11am. (IS TWO THE MAGIC NUMBER FOR DANNY?)

Below is a clip from his BBC1 saturday night chat show in the 90s. I think it was modelled on the American chat shows of the time (letterman Leno Carson) but the style never caught on for a daily show here, although years later Graham Norton tried it on Channel 4 before moving to the Beeb.

After his own chat show, Danny met Chris Evans at GLR (the forerunner of the current BBC London) and later became a writer for TFI Friday which catapulted Evans to fame.

Danny is starting chemo soon, lets hope he beats it, and gets back to doing what he does best, entertaining his fans. DANNY is quite simply, irreplaceable.

AHOY HOY CANDYMANN!!