Sid the Sexist he has single-mindedly committed himself: having sex." He is a coarse and unsophisticated 30-year-old who still lives with his mother, a fact which often poses as a stumbling block to any potential liaison, and is unable or unwilling to use any kind of decorum when approaching women, instead using outrageously crude lines that never succeed in achieving anything beyond rejection or a violent response from the woman in question. In one of his most famous examples from an early issue of "Viz", Sid approaches a woman with; "How, pet, my name's Sid. D'ya fancy a fuck?" When answered with a
Salah Sid But he was perhaps best known as a presenter of "Between High Schools", a site-specific television and radio show resembling "University Challenge". In 1979, at the age of just 29, Sid was selected as the first ever Algerian broadcaster at the BBC World Service, where he broke picket lines in creating a completely new style of radio broadcasting. He later began voice-coaching broadcasters in his new style, commenting that it made the broadcaster sound ""less like a dictator and more like a democrat"." Sid has conducted interviews, covered conflicts, presented documentary features, and broadcast the news and current affairs for