Good Morning Nantwich: Adventures in Breakfast Radio

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What possesses a right-minded comedian to quit the day job for life as a breakfast radio DJ
The opening DJ on the Beebs new alternative radio channel, 6Music, Phill Jupitus was a maverick on the flat landscape of inane commercial breakfast radio. Disregarding the prescriptive chart-led schedule and showing no fear in the face of BBC management, this ex-performance poets personal crusade against the bland, the predictable and the smug self-satisfaction ensured that he never had any trouble practising what he preached.

Not one to pull punches, Phill recounts with acerbic wit, honesty and more affection than he would care to admit, his encounters with petulant band members, tedious showbusiness jargon, colossal salaries and four-letter firewalls.

Inviting world-weary media cynics and radio enthusiasts to sit back and revel in a heady dose of painful banter ensuing from the absent interview technique, The Clash, the perils of idols as on-air guests, Black Umfolosi and The Coasters, Nantwich remorselessly dissects the limply beating heart of breakfast radio and reconstructs it one playlist, anecdote and transcript at a time.

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No one knows or cares more about radio or can write about it with such wit, love and grace Stephen Fry

'Very funny' Lauren Laverne, Grazia

'As interesting as it is timely what shines through is his affection for a medium he flourished in' Shortlist

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Having risen up through the alternative comedy ranks as Porky The Poet, Phill worked extensively with Billy Bragg in the heyday of the late eighties' Red Wedge movement and even directed videos for Bragg and Kirsty MacColl. Phill Jupitus has selected four of his favourite episodes from the evergreen radio series. As with other volumes in the The Very Best... range, Jupitus has written an introductory sleeve note explaining just what makes these four episodes of Dad's Army: The Very Best Episodes Volume 1 so great.