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Danny Baker is back on tour in 2023. The third (and final) part of the trilogy that began with the sell-out tour ‘ Cradle To Stage’ , charged on through the ‘ Good Time Charlie’s Back!’ shows, now reaches its peak with ‘ At Last… The Sausage Sandwich Tour’ .

Danny Baker's concluding chapter of high kicking euphoria begins 28 January 2023 in London and then tours theatres across the UK before finishing in Lytham on 30 April.   More dates will be announced soon.  

This brand-new full tilt non-stop thunderous performance will be another panjandrum of unstoppable anecdote. The last ever instalment in this gleeful raucous eruption, chock full of true-life tales and show business revelation! Every night is unique! PLUS! The Sausage Sandwich Game played LIVE AND DRIPPING WITH CONDIMENT! This time there's even a bonus appearance from Dan's old man SPUD! Imagine that!  

"This makes that Abba thing seem like a lot of fuss about nothing!" - an actual quote from Dan himself.

Altogether now...Will it be Red Sauce, Brown Sauce or...?

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Danny Baker: At Last... The Sausage Sandwich Tour

• 28th Jan 2023 - 30th Apr 2023

Danny Baker is back on tour in 2023 ! Buckle up at Curtain Up because here we go again! The third (and final) part of the trilogy that began with the sell-out tour Cradle To Stage , charged on through the Good Time Charlie's Back! shows, now reaches its peak with At Last... The Sausage Sandwich Tour .

Danny Baker 's concluding chapter of high kicking euphoria begins 28 January 2023 in London and then tours theatres across the UK before finishing in Lytham on 30 April.

This brand-new full tilt non-stop thunderous performance will be another panjandrum of unstoppable anecdote. The last ever instalment in this gleeful raucous eruption, chock full of true-life tales and show business revelation! Every night is unique! PLUS! The Sausage Sandwich Game played LIVE AND DRIPPING WITH CONDIMENT! This time there's even a bonus appearance from Dan's old man SPUD! Imagine that!

"This makes that Abba thing seem like a lot of fuss about nothing!" - an actual quote from Dan himself.

Altogether now...Will it be Red Sauce, Brown Sauce or...?

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It's been two years since that tweet got Danny Baker sacked from the BBC

By Robert Chalmers

Presenting live radio is one of those areas of work – much like goalkeeping, brain surgery or air traffic control – where one momentary error of judgment risks being remembered in a way that years of otherwise dependable service never will be. I’m not proud of this, but when somebody mentions the name of Nicky Campbell – who I believe is technically the greatest British phone-in host of my lifetime – my first thought is not of those innumerable hours of brilliantly managed debate on BBC 5 Live, but of the day in 2009 when he uttered the most unfortunate of spoonerisms as he introduced a woman from the “West Kent Hunt”. Ninety minutes later, with the catastrophic phrase still burning in his brain like neon, he did it again. As Danny Baker – fired from 5 Live after an inadvertently offensive post on twitter – can confirm, even the very best can have a bad day.

As I write this, it is two years to the day since the corporation sacked Baker from his Saturday morning show. A couple of days later I took a train to Nottingham, where he was booked to make his first appearance in a national tour of his one-man show: this after a comprehensive roasting from all sections of the press.

Baker’s sin had been to seek to lampoon the hysteria surrounding the birth of Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, son of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, by posting an image of a chimpanzee in a suit being paraded by what appeared to be an aristocratic couple, with the caption, “Royal baby leaves hospital.” It was a variation on a joke he had used previously to ridicule privilege: a long standing feature on his show has been “Monkeys dressed as famous people plus fairground music.” Reminded by a friend that his tweet could be construed as a sickening racial slur intended to mock Markle’s African-American heritage, he immediately took it down.

Baker is not a close friend; our relationship is one that, like many these days, has developed primarily across email and social media. I do know him well enough to be certain, if you’ll forgive a dead metaphor, that he is a man who doesn’t have a racist bone in his body. I’m also aware, from the merciless piling on that he suffered in the wake of that inane episode, that there are a great many people who can’t conceive there are those of us for whom the royal family are – while not a source of resentment or fury – just the equivalent of a soap opera we occasionally hear about, but never watch: unless and until, as with the palaver that greeted Harry and Meghan’s departure for the United States, they do something that is prominently featured on the national news. All I can say to the numerous commentators who surfaced after that incident to call Baker a liar bedevilled by racism, conscious or unconscious, is that they are badly mistaken.

Travelling up to Nottingham, I read an email from the broadcaster in which he mentioned his treatment at the hands of the Sun and the Mail , among others.

“Mate,” it began, “what a nightmare. A goofy picture intended to gently ridicule privilege goes boom and how. If you’d put a gun to my head before all this and asked, ‘What royal princess has had a baby?’ I'd have had to take a punt. Well, I know now, don't I? Only a poisonous loon would have gone for the 'joke' as it became interpreted. Obviously once alerted to what royal baby it was, I was appalled. I immediately deleted the picture, flagged my shocking error and apologised. Beyond that, what on earth can you do?”

Addressing the reporters and photographers who had gathered outside his house in South London to question his professed ignorance of the royal lineage, Baker told me, “I asked one of them, ‘What do you think about Dick Gregory? What can you tell me about the life of Curtis Mayfield or Langston Hughes?’ They admitted that these were people they knew nothing about. But that conversation never appeared in their articles.”

In posting what he did, Baker inadvertently aligned himself with people such as the former charity director and convicted embezzler and racist Pamela Taylor, who celebrated the election of Donald Trump in 2016 by announcing, on Facebook, that she was glad the United States now had a “dignified” first lady to replace Michelle Obama as she was “tired of seeing an Ape in heels”.

When he walked on stage at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham on 12 May 2019, Baker's expression was something like Oscar Wilde’s might have been had he ever returned from France to London, following his disgraced exile in 1897, ready to face a welcoming committee on the harbour at Dover.

“It’s all been my own fault,” he said. “In my unthinking idiocy I was guilty of the most horrible, pernicious and revolting tweet. I had to ask myself whether I should come here tonight. And whether people were going to turn up after what I did. So thank you for coming out.”

It was an intensely moving speech, the more so in that gravitas and public expressions of mortification are hardly what Baker is best known for. He received sympathetic applause which, given the circumstances, made him look understandably uncomfortable.

His show was a triumph.

I hadn’t planned to write about the Nottingham trip. I’m a fan. I had tickets for that show and a couple of others on the tour. After the event, I did discuss the idea with one newspaper editor, but his feeling was that in defending a pariah we would lead ourselves onto the punch and that both he and I would, to misquote Bob Dylan, drag ourselves down into the hole that Baker was in. Inspired by that most irresistible of cocktails, cowardice and indolence, we just let it go.

Since he was sacked by the BBC, Baker has taken his Treehouse – essentially the same format as his BBC 5 Live show – to his Patreon site, where for a couple of quid a week you can listen, and contribute, as a subscriber.

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The brilliance of Baker’s show devolves from his infectious curiosity and from the fact that, as he once put it, “Most programmes choose subjects that any listener could have an opinion on. We go for the strangest subjects. Things such as: ever been upside down? Failures that escalated. Things you have spilled on a famous person. That,” he added, “is the fun. People who would never normally dream of calling in to a radio programme can’t resist it if they know they have a unique memory to discuss.”

There are many things for which Baker has far more affection than I do – among them progressive rock bands such as Emerson Lake & Palmer, Millwall football club and his former protégé Chris Evans. The presence of a foil in the shape of a younger woman – brilliantly fulfilled by Louise Pepper – is a stroke of genius: her bewilderment at some of the things only a man in his sixties could remember transforms his more ancient cultural references from a hindrance to an asset. In an age when station controllers are increasingly obsessed by the age and sex of their audience, his shows have an appeal that is beautifully timeless and universal.

When he did that 2019 tour, one reviewer who is roughly Baker’s age – motivated, I imagine, by a laudable urge to put the boot into an artist she depicted as a casual racist – painted him as an ageing man wanging on about things that would not interest the young, a sad figure pandering to people who still regularly thumbed through his work as a journalist in their huge collection of yellowing copies of the New Musical Express from the late 1970s. The emperor of old stuff.

I can only hope that she didn’t listen to one of Danny Baker’s most recent Patreon shows, which began with him reading extracts from Edward Gibbon’s Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire. This six-volume work, first published in 1776, does fall, incontrovertibly, into the category of “old stuff”. Somehow, though, it retains, as Baker pointed out, an extraordinary level of resonance for the modern world.

“History,” the presenter read, “is little more than the register of the crimes and misfortunes of mankind. If we contrast the rapid progress of gunpowder with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science and the arts, a philosopher would laugh and weep, at the folly of our species.”

“As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on destroyers than benefactors,” he continued, “the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.” Gibbon’s whole sublime work, he added, is online.

That show was a good example of Baker’s unique brilliance as a broadcaster. The speed with which he hurtles from subject to subject, combined with his encyclopaedic knowledge of popular culture, means that listening to him is a bit like sharing the company of somebody who has just got outside of three lines of cocaine and a pint of chablis and yet is still interesting (which, in real life, my more urbane friends inform me, such people rarely are).

And so we went from Decline And Fall to Edward Gibbon’s intended marriage to a girl called Susanne, an alliance forbidden by his father. (“I sighed as a lover and I obeyed as a son.”) From there to Gibbon’s influence on the science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, who, Baker mentioned in passing, was “a claustrophile. He couldn’t get enough of enclosed spaces. Then on to Gibbon’s death, which was accelerated by “an extreme case of scrotal swelling. In an age of tight-fitting clothing this led to a condition that left Gibbon a lonely figure in his later life. Susanne,” Baker added, “dodged a bit of a bullet there.” We moved from scrotal inflammation to goitres (“Which, when I was young,” Baker said, “were quite popular. No, not popular, er….”) and then to a meditation on the best sources of iodine, a deficiency of which apparently causes that last condition. I can’t quite remember how we got from there to the subject of “the most hubristic autobiography ever written”, for which Baker proposed Thoughts Of A Gemini : Sing Lofty by the late comic actor Don Estelle.

“Over the years, I have enjoyed some success,” Estelle boasts, “but it brings its dangers and scars of living… As individuals we are easily breakable. By illness, falling, by a million other ways. We are,” Estelle adds, as though suddenly intoxicated by his own profundity, “so much mashed potato.”

Danny Baker might not be for everyone, but if that episode of Treehouse was the only thing he had ever done in radio, you would remember him forever. It has to be said, though, that the show had an added dimension when it had its network slot at 9am on a Saturday morning. On radio, it managed to inspire a feeling of conspiratorial companionship, even in an age when everything is available on iPlayer.

One surprise about the ease with which the BBC, to use Baker’s words, “threw me under the bus” was how comfortable they appeared at losing one of their most brilliant assets. Nobody I know listens to 5 Live. I slipped into it in the late 1990s after having breakfast – in the line of work – with the former Blue Peter presenter Valerie Singleton, who told me to give it a go.

By that time, Radio 4 had reached what for me was a kind of tipping point of comfortable mediocrity. I was once so addicted to The Archers that when I was living abroad I had to have recordings shipped out to me. Now, its bizarre Home Counties view of rural life reminds me of nothing more than those evenings when people sit in an opera house and watch a man in evening dress extolling the joys of ploughing.

Historically the BBC has had a fairly robust tolerance of subjects that might be seen by some as ethnically controversial. My first proper job was as radio critic for a Sunday newspaper. One of the first shows I had to review was an episode of Desert Island Discs , then hosted by Sue Lawley, which allowed Lady Diana Mosley to deny that six million perished in the Holocaust.

“It’s just not conceivable,” she told Lawley. “It [six million] is too many.” Lady Mosley, widow of Oswald, founder of the British Union Of Fascists, went on to observe that: “The black shirt had several advantages. It was extremely cheap. I think it cost a shilling. Unemployed people could wear it. It made,” she added, “for a form of comradeship. It was so successful that an act of parliament had to be passed to forbid them wearing it.” (“The Jew,” her husband had once remarked, “fears fascism as the burglar fears the policeman.”) His widow’s reflections on the Führer’s elimination of non-Aryans were interspersed with her favourite pieces of music. These included, perhaps unfortunately, “A Whiter Shade Of Pale.”

One-time media critic or not, I can’t claim any special expertise on radio beyond a lifelong obsession as a listener. From the days of its inception as Radio 5 in 1989, its mixture of news and sport – a weird amalgam, I always thought – has had 5 Live (as it became in 1994) ridiculed as “Radio Bloke”. It’s a reputation controllers have tried very hard to shed, to the extent that you can sometimes hear an item on Hull Kingston Rovers followed immediately by an hour dedicated to the lesser-known challenges posed by an early menopause. Baker was valuable in this sense in that, though some may consider his radio persona – and it is a persona – blokeish, his constituency, as demonstrated by the diverse nature of the audiences on that 2019 tour, is refreshingly mixed in terms of demographic.

Baker’s departure was doubly unfortunate in that 5 Live is hardly a station in its golden age. It does have excellent comedy broadcasters on its roster – Elis James and John Robins deliver a highly entertaining and original show, albeit relegated to the rather weird slot beginning at lunchtime on a Friday. But to find an analogy for the gulf in quality between Baker and the show chosen to replace him, you’d have to look back to Oliver Cromwell’s succession by his son “Tumbledown Dick”.

The station has lost superbly accomplished broadcasters such as Phil Williams (to Times Radio) and Emma Barnett, who has decamped to Radio 4. Baker was one of those great performers that drew you in to the station, in the way that makes Nicky Campbell’s early shows such an asset. I still bear a permanent scar from when I brained myself against a loft beam in my haste to get to the off switch to silence Simon Mayo, who used to present the afternoon show. Now, quite frankly, I miss him. I got a text a couple of years ago from a friend, a very well-known figure, who had just been interviewed by one of the channel’s current daytime presenters. “It’s a good thing we did it down the line and not in the same studio,” she said. “Otherwise I think I would have lamped the smug fucker.”

Could the BBC have kept Danny Baker? Such a decision would unquestionably have been highly problematic for the organisation, if only because the fallout from the incident went around the world. It’s already referenced in at least one academic history of ethnic injustice. In January of this year the New York Times ran a feature with the title “Black Britons know why Meghan Markle wants out. It’s the racism” in which Baker’s tweet was prominently featured.

Baker has had his public defenders, but they have generally been people such as Dara Ó Briain, Gary Lineker and Janet Street-Porter, who know him. If this lapse had been perpetrated by someone whose character, instincts and history were unfamiliar to me, I can’t imagine leaping to their defence. I speak from personal experience when I say that arguing Baker’s case to people who have never heard about the incident – a group of fellow journalists in a Paris bar, for instance – it is very, very hard to carry the day.

That said, the BBC has been prepared to show a sometimes surprising degree of loyalty to certain of its presenters. I should say at this point that there is no suggestion that any of the individuals named below are now, or ever have been, guilty of racism. Jeremy Clarkson, in his period at the BBC, managed to survive using the word “slope” in a section of Top Gear that was broadcast in its “Burma Special” in 2014. In footage that was not shown, but leaked to the Daily Mirror , which still has it on its website, he appears to mumble the word “n*****”. It was not this, but punching a producer, that finished him.

In June 2018, Lord Sugar tweeted a picture of the Senegalese national football team photo-shopped to look like itinerant street vendors, hawking cheap sunglasses and handbags, with the caption: “I recognised some of these guys from the beach in Marbella, multitasking, resourceful chaps.” That image, which must have taken somebody quite a bit of time to conceive and assemble, was taken down, after prompting complaints including a letter from the Senegalese ambassador. Sugar tweeted: “I misjudged me [sic] earlier tweet. It was in no way intended to cause offence and clearly any attempt at humour has backfired. I have deleted the tweet and am very sorry.”

Such understanding has not always been extended to more humble servants of the corporation who have inadvertently caused offence. In 2014, after 32 years of service at the BBC, David Lowe, then 68, lost his “golden oldies” show on Radio Devon. Lowe’s offence was to have played the original 1932 version of “The Sun Has Got His Hat On” by Ambrose & His Orchestra – verse two of which many, including Lowe himself, was surprised to discover, includes the line “He’s been tanning n*****s out in Timbuktu / Now he’s coming to do the same to you.” The station reportedly received one complaint. Lowe, who was paid around £5,000 annually, was told to “fall on his sword”. Following coverage in the national press, the management offered to reinstate him: an offer that was “respectfully declined”.

Boris Johnson wrote a column in which he defended Lowe and likened the mentality and actions of those who are disparagingly referred to as “woke” to the culture of Boko Haram. The prime minister – who, like most top international statesmen, is ever-alert to any whiff of injustice at Radio Devon – has, on the subject of Danny Baker, remained silent, presumably not seeking to commit electoral suicide just yet.

Two years on from his own spectacular misjudgement, Baker is preparing for a touring show with veteran DJ “Whispering” Bob Harris. The dates culminate in a night at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London. Tickets are on sale for performances as early as next month, though as with other such events, the earlier dates would seem to be advertised more in hope than certainty. “Otherwise,” Baker says, “outside the Treehouse I have received no offers – zero – since the BBC showboated my sacking.” Should the corporation ever be accused of historic or future insensitivity in matters concerning race, he adds, “They can always point to how swiftly they dealt with me. In that sense, culturally, I am worth far more dead than alive.”

Next month he turns 64 – a grim milestone for anybody who grew up listening to The Beatles. Given the breadth of his interests and the frenetic nature of his extraordinary imagination, it’s hard not to believe that Danny Baker has at least one great new project left in him: a venture that may, if not quite erase the memory of his most unfortunate five minutes at the keyboard, introduce him to a new, less excruciating form of fame.

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Danny Baker: ‘My first love is not the stage. It’s lying in bed’

Widely known for his extensive TV and radio work, Danny Baker still pulls in the listeners on his twice-weekly paid-only subscription podcast titled The Treehouse co-hosted by Louise Pepper.

Danny will also be coming to the Cambridge Junction in March with At Last... The Sausage Sandwich Tour and there are only a few tickets remaining.

The show is the third part of a trilogy that began with the sell-out Cradle to Stage , and then continued with the Good Time Charley shows.

Sausage Sandwich is a new, full-tilt, non-stop thunderous performance of unstoppable anecdote, and every night of the tour is different.

“This is the third in the triumvirate of stage extravaganzas that I have presented before the nation,” confirms the affable Mr Baker, speaking to the Cambridge Independent via Zoom. “This was meant to be a 45-minute one-off seven years when the first book came out.

“I’m not a stage performer; my first love is not the stage. My first love is lying in bed, but I had to promote the book.”

Danny, 65, who first started on television in 1978, having been involved in music long before then, has written material for “every comedian you can imagine”. He also co-wrote TFI Friday with Chris Evans in the 1990s.

But he never really wanted to do comedy live on stage. However, while doing an on-stage Q&A about the book to tie-in with its launch seven years ago, he stood up to answer a question “and sat down again about 90 minutes later”.

He adds: “The audience seemed to like it, and afterwards they said, ‘Would you do another of these?’ and I said, ‘Yeah, sure’. Then one and two shows became 10 shows, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, on what became the first tour, and by the end of the evening I and the audience had had a good time and I hadn’t even left school yet, in the narrative of it.

“So I thought, ‘We’ll have to do a second one’, which we did before the world all stopped, so this show, the third instalment, should have been four or five years ago but events overtook us.

“It’s called The Sausage Sandwich Tour because of probably the thing I used to do on Saturday mornings, and because it’s the showbiz-y years of it – although it flits backwards and forwards to me dad and everything else.”

The Saturday morning thing to which Danny refers is the Sausage Sandwich Game, which requires members of the public to answer questions to which only the guest knows the answers and culminates with the seminal issue of whether they prefer ketchup or HP sauce on their sausage sandwich, or no sauce at all (the game featured twice on TFI Friday ). In what will no doubt be a delight to some, it will be played live at the Cambridge gig.

Danny, who says that the radio version of the Sausage Sandwich Game became “almost the most successful thing I ever did”, says: “So that’s what it is, and I’ll kick my legs up for the last time and hopefully this time I really will tip-toe into the shadows because it’s been a very long, strange trip so far.”

As befits the title of the show, there may even be free food available on the night. “We’ve been approached by a maker of sausages saying, ‘Can we provide them for the audience?’” reveals Danny, “so you may – I don’t promise this – get a sausage sandwich as you arrive!”

The performance is ‘officially’ 90 minutes long, although sometimes it goes on even longer. “It’s rather like radio,” explains Danny, whose father – a docker – also gets mentioned a lot. “It’s a stream of consciousness.

“There’s no script, there’s no point to it, other than out-and-out trying to make people just have a good time. When comedians say, ‘all comedy’s based on truth,’ no it ain’t. Some of the greatest comics in the world spoke the most wonderful nonsense.

“I just think you’ve got to keep relentlessly entertaining people, and I didn’t know that I could either do it, or people would want it.

“The last tour was 70-odd dates so here we go again with this, and as long as the audience are laughing and having a good time, rather like the old Ken Dodd approach, why not?

“Every night I’m loose on the stage and hopefully reading an audience to see what they want, and here we are in the third instalment of that – and last.”

Making his rise to the top even more impressive, Danny left school at 14 and went to work in a record shop.

“Then I was involved with punk rock, then I was writing for the NME , flying all over the world interviewing rock stars and soul stars and living in Los Angeles,” he recalls – I was 17, off a council estate.

“It was only then, because of that, that I got into television and fortunately I’ve always been a writer. I’ve written books, I’ve written screenplays, but I’ve also made a dubious career in television and all of that. So the point is I’ve always had that eye.

“I think I’m probably unique in terms of yes, I’ve worked with The Clash and The Sex Pistols and Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones and Michael Jackson and Prince and all these people, but also I’ve worked with Morecambe and Wise and Tommy Cooper and all the old comedians, as well as my generation’s things.

“I’ve worked on shows for Jonathan Ross and Chris Evans, and I’ve worked with Peter Kay, and so if I can’t get a show out of that, then I’ve not been paying attention.

“But it’s by no means just a reminiscence, it’s actually bringing people what it’s like to be dropped into the middle of this psychedelic landscape.”

[Read more: Harry Hill: ‘I’ll leave them punch-drunk with a very silly show’ , Review: Cambridge crowd delighted to welcome back Reef ]

Danny, who says he’s been receiving calls from people he hasn’t heard from in ages asking if he can get them Peter Kay tickets, will be bringing his own At Last... The Sausage Sandwich Tour to the Cambridge Junction’s J2 on Saturday, March 4.

Tickets, which are priced at £31.50, are available at junction.co.uk . For more on Danny, visit dannybakerstore.com .

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Danny Baker launched into a two hour rant against BBC bosses before sensationally quitting his popular radio show live on air.

The presenter branded the station chiefs who wanted to cancel his show "pinheaded weasels" and accused them of penny pinching.

The 55-year-old said he hoped those who had taken the decision "choked" on their abacus beads. He also complained about the pay his co-hosts earned.

Baker, due to be honoured with a top broadcasting award in only a few days, added: "By the way, nice way to treat a bloke who had cancer."

He told fans earlier he had learned his regular daily show on BBC London 94.9 was being canned and then used his entire programme to sound off about the decision which he blamed on cost-cutting.

Two years ago to the day he announced he was diagnosed with cancer and had a period off-air while he underwent a period of treatment but bounced back to resume his presenting career. Baker - a former Radio 1 presenter - also has a show on BBC Radio 5 Live which is apparently unaffected.

Figures such as comic Ross Noble and broadcaster Stephen Fry were among those who criticised the decision. And Rob Brydon said sarcastically: "Glad that BBC are axing Danny Baker's daily radio show. I've had it up to here with his wit, warmth and originality."

He told listeners: "We don't want to leave but we're being told to leave by people we've never met who don't listen to the show and certainly don't listen to you.

"We're laughing on the outside but crying on the inside. The station has cancelled the show."

He criticised the way his co-presenters Amy Lame and Baylen Leonard had been treated.

"By the way, and I hope you'll forgive me but Baylen and Amy get £50 for doing this programme. Fifty quid. I think it's fair to say that Jimmy Savile was paid more by the BBC in six months than Baylen and Amy have earned in the 10 years they have been together.

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"A bit too much financial information? Well, you know what, we're cutting this down to size for you with abacuses because that's what it's about. Shame on you for what you have done to my two co-hosts."

He said that whoever had made the decision, "I hope their abacus comes undone and they choke on the beads".

After telling his online followers earlier in the day about the programme being axed, he said: "We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus."

He said he had been told not to say anything about the programme being cancelled and had not been told directly by the BBC.

"Nobody from the station rang me," he told listeners.

Baker said station chiefs did not understand how important the programme is for the community of London.

"This is the best show I'll ever do, but that is apparently not the point - it's about kow-towing to the reams of middle management," he said.

He said the BBC should get rid of two-thirds of middle management if they wanted to make savings.

The BBC is said to have taken the decision in an effort to "refresh" the schedules.

But Baker's agent Alex Armitage claimed Baker was being dropped as a result of cuts in the budget to the local radio network.

He added: "Personally I think it is crazy. Danny is one of the greatest broadcasters in the country and this show is one of the jewels in the crown of the local radio network. I'm simply astonished."

Confirming his departure from the afternoon show on BBC London 94.9, a BBC spokeswoman said Baker would leave at the end of the year.

"Danny's still very much part of the BBC with his Saturday morning show on BBC Radio 5 Live and we're currently in discussions with him about options for a weekly programme," she added.

But Baker immediately hit back with a message on Twitter: "BBC London and I are NOT 'in discussion' about a new weekly show. In fact, I haven't heard a single word from them at all."

Baker - who began his programme this afternoon by playing Queen hit Radio Gaga - signed off from what he said would be his last show by telling listeners: "Aye aye, that's yer lot."

Other BBC presenters who have ranted about their bosses on air include Chris Moyles who complained last year that he had not been paid for his appearances on the Breakfast Show.

And in 1993 Dave Lee Travis used his programme to quit on air, when he said he was unhappy about changes at Radio 1.

The motormouth presenter was greeted by well-wishers as he walked out of Broadcasting House in central London, at which he had been presenting the show.

He said: "I'm happy to be the noisy poster boy for any of these ludicrous, spiteful, artless, culture-hating cuts.

"I'm happy to be the noisy poster boy and I'll be all right. You know why? Because I'm Danny Baker. It's what I do."

Baker said he found out about the decision to axe the show as a result of a "casual conversation".

He said: "When you confront people and say 'You weasel, why didn't you ring me up?', (they reply) 'That's not how we do it'. I think I've been here for 12 years. It's just ludicrous."

Baker believed the style of his BBC London show contributed to its downfall.

"The freedom of this show itself was threatening to middle management," he said. "They didn't get it."

Baker is working as a writer on a new Muppet-style series for the BBC called No Strings Attached. It is being developed with The Jim Henson Company.

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Unknown Hinson Is Back From The Dead With New Tour

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On November 15th of 2012, Unknown Hinson’s internet peeps posted that he had played his last tour dates in public, “period,” cancelling a few previously-booked shows and blaming the rising price of touring for having to call it quits after 18 years. But apparently the hillbilly vampire has been hit yet again with the traveling Jones, and has posted 14 new tour dates so far with “MUCH more to come,” and signed,

“Thank you, my friends for your support. I hope to see you all soon. Sincerely, Stuart Daniel Baker ‘UNKNOWN HINSON'”

Unknown Hinson is the alter ego of Danny Baker, a guitar teacher and studio musician from North Carolina. Reviving the sounds and modes of country music from its golden era with a Gothic and comedic twist, Unknown Hinson has garnered a devout cult following over the years from his entertaining songs, hilarious persona, and blazing guitar licks.

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Saturday, September 28th, Maryville, TN. Smokie Mountain Harley Davidson , “The Shed.”

Friday, October 4th, Asheville, NC, “The Grey Eagle”

Saturday, October 5th, Raleigh, NC. “Lincoln Theatre.”

Friday, October 11th, Chattanooga, TN, “Rhythm & Brews”

Saturday, October 12th, Charlotte, NC, “The Visulite Theatre”

Friday, October 18th, Atlanta, GA, “The Masquerade”

Saturday, October 19th, Fayettetville, NC, “The Rock Shop”

Friday, October 25th, Louisville, KY, “Jim Porters Good-Time Emporium”

Saturday, October 26th, Huntington, WV, “V CLUB”

Thursday, October 31st HALLOWEEN, Athens, GA “The Melting Point”

Friday, November 1st, Nashville, TN W/ “REVEREND HORTON HEAT” @ “Marathon Music Works”

Saturday, November 2nd, Birmingham, AL, “Zydeco”

November 8th, Jackson, MS “Martin’s”

November 9th, Pensacola, FL “Vinyl Music Hall”

November 14th, St. Louis, MO “Old Rock House”

November 15th, Chicago, IL “Reggie’s”

November 16th, Cleveland, OH “Beachland Ballroom”

November 17th, Newport, KY “The Southgate House”

November 22nd, Greenville, SC “The Handlebar”

November 23rd, Greensboro, NC “THe Blind Tiger”

December 12th, West Palm Beach, FL “The Bamboo Room”

December 13th, Tampa, FL “Skipper’s”

December 14th Melbourne, FL “The County Line”

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Beyond excited about this. I know he hit a rough spot with the passing of his wife, hopefully this can help him cope. May be just what he needs. Sure hope he plays somewhere close to me in TX.

Glad to hear he’s back! I saw him last Halloween in Nashville and it was a great show, can’t wait to get my tickets for him and Horton Heat should be a bad ass show!

Darn, none of those dates are anywhere near Los Angeles! (lol) I’ve seen Unkown live before and I just wish he would perform far more of his songs in their original form and leave out the 15 minute blazing guitar jams! Sheesh!

He likes to jam. He is one of the great “unknown” guitar players.

I have to disagree. He is an amazing guitar player and while his own compositions are cool I was blown away when I saw him close his set a few years back with a song of his that morphed into Hendrix’s “Manic Depression”. He absolutely killed it. Reverend Horton Heat followed that but Hinson kinda stole the show.

Dude! Are you high???

This is great news! The Kang is back

The guys Facebook posts can be absolutely crazy, but I’m glad he is going to tour again. Every time I’ve seen him, he’s stayed to shake the hand of every last person there, and signed the titties of every womern. He’s a great act and guy.

You made my day with this article.

Already bought my tickets for the Huntington show…can’t wait!

I came to the rodeo late, discovered UH early this year. This is great news, getting my ducks in a row to catch some shows. Anyone from Sydney, Australia want to catch the Hinson express and listen to his chart topping hits live, you know the deal.

Awesome musician, super nice guy, and funny. Glad to hear he’s back at it, hopefully Richmond, VA will be on his schedule soon.

I’m so stoked to read this! I caught one of his live shows in Greensboro two years ago and he was incredible. Can’t wait to see him again.

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Kursk: The Last Mission review – devastating drama tackles Russian sub tragedy

Thomas Vinterberg’s skillful recreation of the 2000 disaster that saw 118 men die is a film that bristles with rage and sadness

I n the final act of Thomas Vinterberg’s fiery retelling of the devastating Kursk submarine disaster of 2000, his fictional protagonist Mikhail Kalekov, played by Matthias Schoenaerts, asks a chilling question. He’s facing the seeming inevitability of death, having left his pregnant wife and three-year-old son on land, stranded on the bottom of the ocean with his surviving shipmates, one of whom was left fatherless when he was also aged three. Kalekov asks him: “What do you remember of your father?” He replies: “Nothing.”

It’s a haunting, hopeless moment in a film that not only stings with sadness but bristles with rage. Like in 2016’s Deepwater Horizon , which told of a similarly waterlogged disaster, there’s frighteningly well-choreographed human tragedy but also an unblinking urgency in holding the feet of those accountable to the fire. In that film it was the callous corporate greed of BP. This time, it’s the inhumane pridefulness of the Russian military.

As we meet Mikhail and his fellow sailors, they’re preparing for a wedding, a final hurrah before they head undersea for a weapons test. As part of a rare naval exercise (the first such to take place in Russia for 10 years), the men then head deep underwater in the Kursk submarine, stacked with a range of other missiles. But after equipment malfunctions, a set of explosions rip through the sub, killing the majority of the crew and sending the rest down to the bottom of the Barents Sea. Siloed in a damaged compartment, the men await rescue while struggling to remain alive.

But above the surface, there are added complications. First, there’s a 16-hour wait for authorities to even find the sub and then when located, there are deep structural issues with the potential mode of rescue, with shoddy, failing equipment making a difficult mission turn desperately impossible.

With inarguably his biggest, most mainstream film to date, Vinterberg has set himself a formidable task. In adapting Robert Moore’s exhaustively researched bestseller A Time to Die with Saving Private Ryan screenwriter Robert Rodat, he’s not only telling the stories of the men on the submarine but their panicked families on land and the bureaucratic idiocy that swirls around them all. He’s also assembling it all within the accessible structure of a disaster film, complete with suspenseful set pieces, tear-jerking speeches and a lead boasting matinee idol looks.

It’s an unlikely lurch toward the multiplex for a director who once co-founded the Dogme 95 movement with Lars von Trier and there are some interesting stylistic choices at play. The most notable, and successful, of these is Vinterberg’s decision to play with the screen ratio, only widening it out when the Kursk is submerged, and elsewhere, he employs intimate camerawork in the scenes between the men both above and below sea level, an independent touch in a broader picture, and some eerily effective views of the water that surrounds the ailing sub. It’s not all quite as effective, however. Given the budget and the ensuing expectations, Kursk exists in that familiar movie universe where Russian characters are played by Belgian, French, German and Swedish actors, all of whom speak English throughout. It’s a price to pay for a wider audience and while initially distracting, it could have been far worse (*coughs* Harrison Ford in K-19 *ends coughing*).

While too often films of this ilk struggle to add depth to the stock character of “waiting spouse”, Rodat’s script gifts Léa Seydoux, playing the wife of Mikhail, a far less passive role. One of the most enraging elements of the film is how poorly the men’s relatives were treated by authorities. They were kept in the dark as well as being openly lied to and Seydoux’s steely concern eventually explodes in an electrifying town hall scene before she delivers a gut-wrenching last act speech. It’s a striking, heartfelt performance and marks some of her best work to date. There’s also a strong turn from Colin Firth who plays real-life British commander David Russell whose attempts to help the rescue mission were rejected. He delivers one of the film’s most poignant moments, struggling to maintain composure in his uniform after finding out some tragic news.

It’s a heartbreaking, troubling film about men whose lives were cruelly deprioritised and whose families remain ever altered as a result. It ends on a note of melancholy but the burning anger also remains, the final scenes tinged with a painful awareness of wounds that may never heal.

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On July 5, 1943, the greatest land battle in history began when Nazi and Red Army forces clashed near the town of Kursk, on the western border of the Soviet Union. Code named Operation Citadel, the German offensive would cut through the bulge in the eastern front that had been created following Germany's retreat at the battle of Stalingrad. But the Soviets, well informed about Germany's plans through their network of spies, had months to prepare. Two million men supported by 6,000 tanks, 35,000 guns, and 5,000 aircraft convened in Kursk for an epic confrontation that was one of the most important military engagements in history, the epitome of total war. It was also one of the most bloody, and despite suffering seven times more casualties, the Soviets won a decisive victory that became a turning point in the war.

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Russian admiral: Kursk disaster caused by NATO sub

FILE - Crew members of the nuclear submarine Kursk, one of Russia’s largest and most advanced submarines, stand on the ship deck during the naval parade in Severomorsk, Russia, July 30, 2000. Kursk Captain Gennady Lyachin stands at right. Retired Vyacheslav Popov has alleged in an interview released Monday Nov. 22, 2021, that the 2000 Kursk submarine disaster was caused by a collision with a NATO sub, an unproven claim that defies the official conclusion that the country’s worst post-Soviet naval catastrophe was triggered by a faulty torpedo. (AP Photo/File)

FILE - The Kursk, one of Russia’s largest and most advanced submarines, travels in the Barents Sea near Severomorsk, Russia, in this 1999 photo. Adm. Retired Vyacheslav Popov has alleged in an interview released Monday Nov. 22, 2021, that the 2000 Kursk submarine disaster was caused by a collision with a NATO sub, an unproven claim that defies the official conclusion that the country’s worst post-Soviet naval catastrophe was triggered by a faulty torpedo. (AP Photo/File)

FILE - The Russian nuclear submarine Kursk, is shown at a Navy base in Vidyayevo, Russia, May 2000. Retired Vyacheslav Popov has alleged in an interview released Monday Nov. 22, 2021, that the 2000 Kursk submarine disaster was caused by a collision with a NATO sub, an unproven claim that defies the official conclusion that the country’s worst post-Soviet naval catastrophe was triggered by a faulty torpedo. (AP Photo/File)

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MOSCOW (AP) — A retired Russian admiral has alleged that the 2000 Kursk submarine disaster was caused by a collision with a NATO sub, an unproven claim that defies the official conclusion that the country’s worst post-Soviet naval catastrophe was triggered by a faulty torpedo.

Retired Adm. Vyacheslav Popov, who was the commander of Russia’s Northern Fleet when the Kursk exploded and sank during naval maneuvers in the Barents Sea, charged in an interview released Monday that the NATO submarine inadvertently bumped into the Kursk while shadowing it at close distance.

Popov told the state RIA Novosti news agency that the Western submarine was also damaged in the powerful explosion and sent a distress signal from the area. He didn’t identify the submarine and acknowledged that he lacks proof to back up his claim.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on Popov’s claim and pointed to the official probe that concluded that the catastrophe was triggered by an explosive propellant that leaked from a faulty torpedo.

Popov, who was blamed for his slow and bungled response to the catastrophe as the Northern Fleet’s chief, has made the collision claim before, but his latest statement was more outspoken and detailed.

Russian media reports have claimed that two U.S. submarines and a British sub were spotted in the area near the Russian naval exercise in the Barents Sea when the Kursk disaster happened.

The Kursk sank on Aug. 12, 2000, after suffering two powerful explosions. Most of the 118 members of the crew were killed instantly, but as the submarine sank to the bottom of the sea, only about 350 feet (108 meters) below the surface, 23 men were able to flee to a rear compartment, where they waited for help.

The disoriented Russian navy command wasted hours before launching a search, and the authorities turned down offers of Western assistance, stubbornly sending Russian mini-submarines to make repeated futile attempts to hook onto the submarine’s escape hatch. After a week, Russia finally invited Norwegian divers and it took them just hours to open the hatch, but by then it was too late to save anyone.

After the catastrophe, some navy officials said the crew members who survived the blast might have been alive for three days, but the investigators eventually concluded that all of them died of carbon monoxide poisoning within eight hours of the blasts — long before any help could arrive.

The government’s bungled handling of the rescue effort shook the nation and dented President Vladimir Putin’s prestige.

The Kursk’s wreckage was lifted in October 2001, allowing the investigators to retrieve 115 bodies and search the mangled hull for clues about the cause.