BROADCASTING'S HOTTEST PROPERTY parachuted in as cornerstone of Bannisterisation process
ULTIMATE MANIFESTIATION of the Bannisterisation process
BESPECTACLED HOUSEWIVES' CHOICE POLTROON who mystifyingly became a 'national phenomenon' in the eighties
FORMER BLUE MINK VOCALIST brought in to do holiday cover for Noel Edmonds
FORMER RADIO LONDON PIRATE who became the first ever Radio 1 DJ bar none
One of the original stair-seated Radio 1 line-up, and also one of the first to leave
LATE EIGHTIES token girlie jock with hairspray addiction to match
Self-styled 'Compact Disc Jockey' who arrived at Radio One to take over the teatime slot from Peter Powell
MULTI-PURPOSE one-size-fits-all occupant of whatever slot happened to be vacant
SELF-APPOINTED late-night one-man intellectual outpost
FORMERLY in Knees Club-zaniness cahoots with Kenny Everett on Radio London
DIMLY-REMEMBERED Bramblesesque youth ticket jockette from early nineties intake
ONE OF A NUMBER of exciting new comedians brought in to try their hand at being DJs in the mid-nineties
PERHAPS THE EMBODIMENT of eighties red-white-and-blue-bodywarmer, get-your-R1-bugs-from-Smiley-Miley-on- the-Goodiemobile DJs
ONE OF the original subset of muso DJs
SATURDAY-NIGHT-JAPESMITHERY-in-waiting with bearded bouffanted melange of zany stunts
INITIALLY AFFABLE inventive bloke in oddly-named Sunday lunchtime slot Too Much Gravy
THE ORIGINAL - and best - Zany Bearded Funster
THE FLUFFMEISTER'S loveable, never-changing, Brentford Nylons-flogging patter reverberated
OBSERVERITE daughter of Liberal gourmet and cat food salesman Clement installed by The Bannister on lunchtime show
YANK SMOOTH TALKER and memory machine
THE MAN, or so the jingles had it, Who's Got The Best Music
MUCH-MISSED master of tape-fiddling
SEDATELY BEARDED and unchallenged king of American FM-style "and to take us up to the 3am news, here's a couple of classic...
BROUGHT IN to temporarily replace a Late Late Breakfast Show-occupied Noel Emonds
LANGUID CALEDONIAN hardcore counterculturalism representative of the 'chatting to members of Barclay James Harvest late at night' persuasion
EARNEST DIMINUTIVE bearded rock-centric early seventies mainstay
NOW BETTER KNOWN as the supreme overload of sweary heavyweight satire, but in a former life a gag-friendly tape-fiddling indie DJ for...
Ineffectual weekend early morning frontman
FRESH-FACED Canadian blond smoothie
ARCHETYPAL 'lets the music do the talking' (ie dull patter, tinted pilot spectacles etc) jock
UNREMARKABLE youthful mid-eighties recruit
TIME-HONOURED wacky-thumbs-aloft character, with permanent helium-hysterical microphone voice, who linked funny comedy clips
VOICEOVER-monopolising 'professional northerner' and Liz's rather more credible brother
UNSILENCEABLY northern 'earthy' humour-toting sister of Andy
ONE OF those 'next big thing' jocks - Steve Wright-lite schtick, funny voices etc - who never quite made the breakthrough
MELLOW-as-mellow-gets-voiced guitar legend-cum-Sunday evening post-Top Forty blues show frontman
UNLIKELY combination of trend-cyncial music journo Steve Lamacq and woman who booked the bands for The Word Jo Whiley
COMEDY DOUBLE-ACT first deployed in epochal razor sharp culturally-topical (i.e. jokes about Jamiroquai and Supermarket Sweep) sketch show Fist Of Fun
DEPENDABLE Chegger-siblinged presenter of the definitive Cream-era Evening Session
'SUNSHINE SHOW'-promising token million-o-clock-in-the-morning reggae jock
RELATIVE longevity-boasting adopter of Tarrantesque zoo format for nationwide breakfast consumption
WILD MAN Of Rock showcasing largely unacknowledged verbose whimsy skills as Peel summer replacement
SUSPENSION-PRONE local radio madman
INCOMPETENT banality-spouting sexist buffoon fired on air after a single ‘big launch’ show
FIRST female jock on Radio 1, cheerful big sister archetype turned largerette dance guru.
KNOWN as 'Me, Mark Page' to those few who listened to his tucked-away show
ANOTHER 'just the music' man
FORMIDABLE alterno-colossus and one-time tramp-resembling bloke scowling at the back of that infamous original Radio 1 group photo on the steps of...
WRY Imperial Phase pop-duo invited to do a novelty holiday cover slot as part of the baffling ‘Bates’ Mates’ summer scheme