I'd like to do radio just like pictures - leave the imperfect stuff on the cutting-room floor.
I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.
I love radio and have done a little bit for years - since 'Workers' Playtime' in the 1950s. It's also a good springboard for comedians.
I have always loved broadcasting - as a child in Liverpool, I would wake up and listen to Morning Merseyside on BBC Radio Merseyside and wonder, 'How do they do that?'
I'm so excited and honoured to be joining the BBC Radio 2 family.
If I could be lucky enough to just have radio as the base for the rest of my life, I could build off that. No matter how successful I become, I always look at radio as the only skill set I can really call on. I even know how to operate the boards.
People often lump radio and television together because they are both broadcast mediums. But radio, anyway, and the radio I do for NPR, is much closer to writing than it is to television.
I remember thinking, 'I don't know if I can do radio.' I never even listen to it.
I've always trusted my natural instinct because nobody ever taught me how to be on the radio or produce a show, and I never went to broadcasting school or anything like that.
I've been working in radio on and off for most of my career. There's a restfulness about it. It's more focused on the voice, so you don't have to worry about extraneous things like sound effects, as there's someone there to look after that.
Performing on radio is great, you roll up with no makeup in pyjamas and nobody will know.
Radio was my first love as a broadcaster and where it all began for my on-air career.
