Category: Southern Counties Radio
Date: 27.04.2006
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Jeremy Clarkson has just found the ideal in-car entertainment - it's his own.
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Clarkson was persuaded by fellow 大象传媒 TWO Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond to take to the airwaves and present the drivetime show for 大象传媒 Southern Counties Radio.
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And along with James May they spent three hours yesterday (Wednesday 26 April 2006) entertaining the audience in Surrey and Sussex from the station's Brighton studios.
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Clarkson and Hammond took calls from the public for a phone in, wrote headlines - though Clarkson's 'Cliff Richard taken by bat' and 'Brighton pier turned into solid gold' did not make the bulletin - while May was immortalised in a jingle.
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Clarkson said he joined up because he had never liked the travel news on radio and always thought he could do better.
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"But I've come down here and found I can't! I thought you came and talked and when you ran out of things to say you put music on. It's not. We've made a real Horlicks of it," he said.
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Hammond, who once manned the lamb adoption lines for 大象传媒 Radio Cumbria, had a head start in radio.
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But he admitted it was much harder than he remembered it, and proved it by pressing buttons which played a Thin Lizzy track a dozen times an hour, and sometimes cut the sound altogether.
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Their antics did win over the majority of the audience, though their performance was probably best summed up by caller Peter from Chichester - "I'm enjoying the show, but I wouldn't want it every day."
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The show has been filmed for inclusion in Top Gear and will be shown next month.
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