2008, an apology, and Hugh Fearnly-Wearnly

Hello all. It's 2008. and I'll hopefully be back on the radio, bothering you all to listen again in February. Bitchin'

Just a few things for now;

Apologies to Carolyn Mearns, indie rockers the Futureheads, and all the residents and those associated with Sunderland, the surrounding area, and ex-Republic of Ireland midfielder Roy Keane, for incorrectly stating that said 'Heads were from Sheffield. Turns out they are not. Relevant entries have been changed, and I shan't do it again. On the plus side, good to see I have people reading this. Bitchin'

Also, my favourite telly of the year so far - Hugh's Chicken Run on Channel 4. It could have ended up as a horrible mess of "no, you'll bloody well eat this free range chicken you 'orrible slag" like the whole of Jamie's School Dinners, but in the end it came out nicely. We learned;

a) Intensive chicken farming is grim, but the mechanics are to be admired
b) Free Range chickens are good, but they get the cold a lot more often
c) Weakness in chickens WILL NOT BE TOLERATED - and this can be hard to take if, like HF-W, you are used to being lovely to animals
d) Some people just can't afford free range chicken, and HF-W accepts this, thus making him a benevolent kind of food overlord.
e) Most importantly, if you help them out, anyone can rear chickens. It looks like a right larf.

Basically, this was information-packed, had enough emotion to keep you caring, had enough swearing to remind you this was Channel 4, the home of TOUGH cooks, and was genuinely interesting. Plus it had hilarious talking heads from the townspeople that Hugh was trying to make free-range, saying things like "e'll never make me eat a 'appy chicken, e's a con-maan". See, even some comic relief...