BBC 1! BBC2! BBC3! BBC4! BBC5! BBC6! BBC7! BBC heaven!

So I got to talk to my all-time radio idol live on-air last night!

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie have a nightly show on BBC Radio 2, a station known for being pretty staid and safe and inoffensive. Radcliffe and Maconie are hadly hellraising wild men, but they are probably the only DJs on R2 to play Iggy Pop, The Fall, Buzzcocks, etc. Anyway, they have both been huge godlike geniuses to me for years (Radcliffe especially, whose shows I have listened to ever since I was a callow teenager.)

So they have an ongoing feature on their show called The Chain, whose concept is simple enough: each record (or 'link') in The Chain has to be somehow connected to the previous one. The connection can be as tenuous or obvious as the submitter likes. Each night at a couple of points in the show they speak to the listener whose suggestion has been accepted as the next link.

And last night it was me! My suggestion of a Divine Comedy song to follow a Madness song (on the grounds that both bands had written songs about Michael Caine) was triumphant! For the next week you can hear, courtesy of BBC.co.uk's 'Listen Again' feature, my three minutes of starstruck babbling...

So...click here and then select Tuesday's episode ('Graham Nash speaks') from the Listen Again list on the right hand side. Although you would do well to listen to the whole show, you can skip ahead to my bit if you like -- I'm on at around the 1hr 42 minute mark.