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Just In Time For Me Coming Back

It's become slightly academic for the next few months, but I've been thinking for a while that I need to find new listening for my morning commute. I tend to listen to Today, because I'm a news junkie*, and there's nothing else I've found that does anything approaching proper news in the morning since the now long-ago demise of much-missed 'proper' GLR (ah, the days of Fi Glover and Gideon Coe and real news-based speech-based local radio). But it's a safe bet that at least once every morning I'll turn it off in a fit of rage, usually over John Humphries trying to generate a totally unneccesary confrontation out of thin air, but they're all as bad as one another.

And now it's been announced that come the Spring, just in time for me to resume London commuting, probably, my least favourite BBC journalist not called Nick Robinson is joining the Today team. That's decided it for me - when I get back, for me at least Today will be history.

* And yes, I'm a news junkie about to go to the US for an extended period. Pity me as I thank the lord for the interweb.