Radio is a great medium, an underrated medium in fact. The best thing about Radio is it provides the script and lets the listeners imagination paint the pictures. The second best thing is Radio; unlike television can still be unpredictable. Never again will there be a Matt Bianco or Five Star moment on television, so tightly are programmes managed. On radio such moments happen all the time.

On a talk show broadcast by some obscure local station last night the subjects were, almost inevitably, financial crisis and the broken society. In came a call from professional northerner and old git Sam Strongitharm (Ah says what ah like an’ ah likes what ah says) who opened by announcing that the was a retired coal miner.

And what do you want to talk about,” the presenter coaxed him, not that coaxing was needed.

“Ah’m eighat-ty wun years owd an fer t’ last fifty years ah’ve watched this country gooin’ t’t’ dogs,” he told the world – or the few dozen of us tuned in at something after midnight.

“What do you think has caused that, Sam?” the chirpily patronising presenter asked.

“Ah’ll tell thee exactly whuts caused it,” belligered the unpatronisable Sam, it a’ started when we let them niggers and pakis in .........................................................

There was stunned silence.

Somewhere in the distance a lone churchbell tolled a funereal knell.

The industrial landscape became a desert of Ozymandias proportions, boundless and bare.

A keening wind blew tumbleweed across the window of the mind…

And then as the presenter floundered we started giggling hysterically.

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