Doctor Who and the Gadget Detective

Why-oh-why doesn't Jonathan Richards have more phone-ins like this on LBC 97.3?

Stranded on Earth in the year 2008 after a valve voltage doodah thingy, the Doctor phones the Gadget Detective for help repairing the Tardis, only for Adrian from the Tottenham Court Road to nick it while his back was turned.

This 2008 clip is from the sadly defunct online talk radio station Play Talk, part of Play Radio UK. It features the Gadget Detective, Fevzi Turkalp, playing talkee to a Digital Spy foamer phoning the Mike Mendoza show. See if you can count the number of cans of Red Bull (the show's sponsor at the time) that Mike Mendoza opens and drinks during this call.

Jonathan Richards could learn a lot about making popular, inclusive radio from this clip. With more calls like this, and fewer people moaning about news and current affairs to a very niche audience who actually likes that type of thing, LBC's current fortunes could be turned around completely practically overnight!

I wonder how many times Jonathan Richards' salary is divisible by Oscar's student debt?

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Science & Technology

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• mike mendoza
• play radio
• doctor who
• radio
• gadget detective
• lbc
• foamers
• digital spy