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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: BBC Radio 5 Live presenters, Danny Baker, Eamonn Holmes, Colin Murray, Simon Mayo, Adrian Chiles, Kevin Greening, Nicky Campbell, 7 Day Sunday, Richard Bacon, Des Lynam, Jacqui Oatley, Matthew Bannister, 6-0-6, Gloria De Piero, Kate Bellingham, Dougie Anderson, Anita Rani, John Inverdale, Ross King, 5 Live Sport, Victoria Derbyshire, Wake Up to Money, Dotun Adebayo, Shelagh Fogarty, Peter Allen, Anita Anand, 5 Live Report, Up All Night, Julian Worricker, Mike Ingham, Rhod Sharp, Colin Paterson, Brian Alexander, World Football Phone-In, Eleanor Oldroyd, Phil Williams, Sally Bundock, Ian Dennis, Rachel Burden, Mickey Clark, Andrew Verity. Excerpt: Danny Baker (born 22 June 1957, Deptford, South London) is an English comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter. Since the late 1970s, he has worked for a wide range of publications and broadcasters including NME, LWT, the BBC, and Talk Radio. Baker was born in Deptford in south east London. He left school in 1972 at the age of 15 and initially worked in One Stop Records, a small record shop in South Molton Street in London's West End. In 1976, with fellow Deptfordian Mark Perry, Baker founded the proto-punk fanzine Sniffin' Glue, and this led to an offer from the New Musical Express, home to the likes of Julie Burchill, Tony Parsons, Charles Shaar Murray and Nick Kent. Baker initially began working as the office receptionist, but was soon contributing regular articles and reviews before progressing to interviews. He often refers to these times during his radio shows, regularly citing examples of the ridiculous behaviour exhibited by his rock star interviewees. In the later 1990s, Baker wrote a weekly sports column for The Times and was briefly a columnist for early issues of movie magazine Empire. By 1980, Baker was making documentaries for producer Janet Street ...
