Who’s Calling Christian got off to a flying start this morning with calls from Ricky Gervais, Helen Baxendale, Adrian Chiles and Shay Given.
Gervais had returned from America to find 10 emails asking him to call Christian while Adrian Chiles was accosted by a mum the school gates just days after another listener targeted him at his local Sainsbury’s.
It seems that people everywhere are doing whatever they can to get their hands on the prize money and a quick look at Twitter reveals that George Clooney, Noel Fielding and Stephen Fry are just some of the celebs our listeners have in their sights.
Whoever calls in however, we’ll be asking them all the same question: “What would you do if you were Prime Minister?” It’s already generated some surprising results…
Ricky Gervais: “I suppose the serious answer would be stopping animal cruelty. Particularly those inbred people who still go hunting when they are not meant to, I’d like to smack them in the mouth.”
Adrian Chiles: “I’d say we’re going to have the World Cup then we are going cancel football for a year. The 2010/11 season will be cancelled. I think we all need a break from it – the players, the fans, we all need a bit of time to reflect. A Farmer has to leave a field fallow from time to time. We need to re-group, go back to our families, go back to whatever else we do in our lives and tackle it afresh in the new season.”
Helen Baxendale said: “The very first thing I would do is make sure all children did ballet before their lessons at school. I’m standing for ballet for everyone. Like in China they do Tai Chi, I think we should all be out in the park doing an hour’s ballet. It would do a lot do a lot good for our self discipline, motivation and appreciation for the arts.”
There are two weeks still to go so watch this space and hear the calls in full via the brilliant new Breakfast Show homepage at www.absoluteradio.co.uk.








