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Who would you erase from the airwaves?

When a Teeside breakfast show mysteriously went missing, listeners mourned. But which programmes - or DJs - deserve to disappear?

With twists of fate as cruel as they can sometimes be, it is the hour of broadcasting as a volunteer on Radio Teesdale for which Andy Greener will always be remembered.

Phone lines lit up during his stint on the breakfast show slot earlier this week, and Greener took this as sign that listeners were enjoying his jovial banter and lively running gags about local paranormal goings-on.

Except they weren't. They couldn't hear them. Greener had forgotten to switch over from automatic overnight output, so all his audience heard on a busy news morning was a tape of easy listening and general jingles. Eventually the station manager managed to contact Greener, who presumably found a record number of missed calls on his mobile, and normal service was resumed.

We'll never know what the audience missed in that hour, but I can't help wondering if Greener managed to weave the whole thing back into his paranormal theme, blaming the mess on a pesky Teeside poltergeist. But this sorry, sweet tale left me wondering: if you could nip into a studio and naughtily blot out an hour of something or someone on radio, what would it be and why?

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