BBC Three dating show I Kissed A Boy followed ten single men who were matched up by producers and had to meet for the first time with a quick snog.The show, which was hosted by former The X Factor judge Dannii Minnogue, ran for eight episodes as the contestants faced the threat of new arrivals and “kiss off” challenges. It proved to be a huge hit and applications for the second series are already open! The boys involved in the show had to make some very tough choices, and plenty of hearts were broken along the way, but viewers are hopeful that at least some of the lads ended up finding lasting love on the show.The final episode saw the last remaining couples have a final “kiss off” in a bid to decide whether they should call it quits now or give it a go in the real world.
"These are the names of the places you will pronounce wrong": What it was like to DJ on Manchester's lost Piccadilly Radio
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As a self-confessed "southern jessie", Peter Baker never imagined he would spend years as the voice of Greater Manchester's mornings.
But as breakfast show presenter for Piccadilly Radio and Key 103, in the seventies, eighties, and nineties, Peter, now 67, became the person thousands of Mancunians woke up to.
Piccadilly Radio 261 first aired nearly 50 years ago and was the first commercial radio station to broadcast in the city. Sponsored by the BBC, Peter studied at the University of Bath to become a sound engineer but soon became disinterested and wondered if he could make it as a radio presenter.
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Borrowing the studio key, he recorded a demo tape and sent it off to Piccadilly Radio in 1975, which was then just a year old.
Impressed, the station invited the then 20-year old student - who spent his youth listening to pirate radio and 'playing DJ' - for an audition.
Having never been to Manchester before, the shock of what he was about to become part of hit Baker as soon as he set foot in the city.
"I got off at Piccadilly Station and there was this big light up billboard that said 'Welcome to Manchester, home of Piccadilly Radio' just as you come out," Baker told the M.E.N. "I thought bloody hell, this is a big thing!"
Peter tried out for the graveyard slot, a live show that ran for seven hours between the hours of 11pm and 6am. With no music being played between those hours, airtime was filled with interviews with live guests and chats with callers phoning in, which Baker describes as being "like a mini LBC (talk radio station) at
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