So, I get back from my vacation and try to settle into my regular routine. Firstly, it's disrupted by a strike by BBC jornalists although I was amused that somebody quipped you could hardly tell and thus proving they're over-staffed anyway.

I digress. What I came back to was the news that Danny Baker won a Sony Radio Award and prompty went on to quit his breakfast show:

The ebullient presenter is taking what the station described as "an extended summer holiday" after three years on the show, during which he will work on a film script for channel Five.

He told listeners: "We will reform and come back in another shape one day. People thought we were crying wolf ... we were just crying. We've been saying it for a while now. We've been doing it for three years. We're packing up the tree house at the end of the month." [The Independent]

Now that's going to mess up my morning routine something rotten - there's nobody else on air anything like Danny Baker. It's not just the fact that he is the only speach-driven presenter that's not news-based it's because he is bloody entertaining. Ahhh. I think a paragraph from another article in The Indpendent says it all,

Such confidence that radio requires unique skills will always make Sony award-winning breakfast presenters highly sought after. But they have to be carefully looked after when they arrive. Getting up in the middle of the night to sound fresh at the microphone can become gruelling for even the most dynamic broadcasters. BBC London's breakfast ace, Danny Baker, proved it with his response to Sony Awards triumph. Named DJ of the year, beating O'Connell, Baker announced his departure from the airwaves within the day. He is going to write a film script for Five. Radio executives searching the market for proven breakfast talent are hoping it flops [The Independent]