Today The Dark Lord meets his musical hero - only to find out he's aged a little, the sordid story of a colleague and a plumber in a motorway service station and how football could be improved!
Today what happens when you let your jeans warm up by a fire, the soldering iron that almost ended The Dark Lord's career in romance, a drugs bust and what happens when LSD reduces you to talking in English and French, at the same time. The stories he couldn't tell on national British radio, all in today's podcast.
How the staff of a top shelf magazine entertain themselves and it's not what you think. How did The Dark Lord start out in entertainment? Find out today. Also today find out how Alex's harmonica career is going and what happens when you book a romantic room with a view.
It's February but The Dark Lord is still lamenting the most expensive Christmas tree ever. Also this week a trip to meet one of the greatest goons and the most frightening American motel room ever!
Is it just normal people that lead normal lives? It seems not as Alex reveals today. Also this week, learn how the top shelf magazine Mayfair almost became a Bond franchise sponsor, almost, very almost - and that tricky social etiquette of forgetting someone's name.
This week Alex spills the beans on his first brush with sloppy romance, why his resting expression gets him in constant trouble and why you should check the facts first before punching someone.
Alex reveals a little known secret today, but don't ever call him Norman. He also reveals the fact he'd like a tattoo and a story about mauve ink.
It's the gift that keeps on giving, this podcast. This week Alex will solve that dilemma of what to buy next time you're invited to a wedding. Also, why he doesn't live in a small village any longer and the hatched plan to drive a top shelf magazine editor absolutely mad!
Ah so that's what happened to the socks then? Sleep deprivation can be hellish as you're about to hear. Also the Dark Lord reveals how he crashed the car and why the family pick on him for mistakes he made four plus decades ago.
Well, we made it, 2020. A new year of podcasts to come and thank you for being part of last year's bash. Just before you head back into work, the Dark Lord shares the last of his holiday six of the best. Suitable for adult ears.
The Dark Lord thought you may like a few of his personal favourites from the first year with his very own podcast. Six of the best served up minus indigestion. Some of his favourite moments with an adult flavour, just like a Christmas pudding doused with far too much cognac.
With just a few days to go to the big day, the Dark Lord attempts to put himself on the naughty list with the first of our Christmas and New Year specials over the holiday period. Six of the Dark Lord's favourite moments from the first year of the podcast. Just make sure it's your maiden aunt that listening along with you and not the kiddies!
This week Alex reveals how his friend launched a new fetish magazine, the celebrities he chooses to avoid, a building disaster in France and why he just can't trust what's said to him by 'store experts.'
Here's a snappy guide on how to have fun with cold callers. Also being British and passing wind plus the button of doom.
Do you get to a certain age where you can just speak your mind as a rite of passage? That subject, the bear proof suit and contentious nobbly knee competitions.
The brand new Monday format and Alex recounts how his father took scissors to his favourite toy, how he met the man behind the most famous advertising tune in history, what went wrong at his first satellite TV job and the day nobody noticed he'd got it momentously wrong in radio.
It's the new Monday show and today Alex shares the intimate story of his Graduate moment. There's tattoo talk and someone got the football scores wrong!
As from next week there's change afoot here at The Best Time of the Day Show Podcast; now there's a mouthful. The show will air on Mondays with a good clutch of new stories each week from The Dark Lord of radio. Make sure to download/listen every Monday either from the website below or via your favourite podcast app, we're on them all! For the last time then, here's the omnibus edition and tune in again Monday!
It's all change next week, as the new Monday episode will have a week's worth of goodies. Start your week with The Dark Lord every Monday and make sure to subscribe; we're on Google and Apple Podcasts, Spotify and your favourite podcast app. Today's short story takes you behind the scenes in radio to find out what really goes on on tour!
Another radio story today. Alex, being an international wireless Megaladon mixes in high circles obviously and here's a one of those 80s style recounts where The Dark Lord takes an American pop star to one of the worst British boozers.