Best Time of the Day Show

Today The Dark Lord meets his musical hero - only to find out he's aged a little, the sordid story of a colleague and a plumber in a motorway service station and how football could be improved!

Today what happens when you let your jeans warm up by a fire, the soldering iron that almost ended The Dark Lord's career in romance, a drugs bust and what happens when LSD reduces you to talking in English and French, at the same time. The stories he couldn't tell on national British radio, all in today's podcast.

How the staff of a top shelf magazine entertain themselves and it's not what you think. How did The Dark Lord start out in entertainment? Find out today. Also today find out how Alex's harmonica career is going and what happens when you book a romantic room with a view.

It's February but The Dark Lord is still lamenting the most expensive Christmas tree ever. Also this week a trip to meet one of the greatest goons and the most frightening American motel room ever!

Is it just normal people that lead normal lives? It seems not as Alex reveals today. Also this week, learn how the top shelf magazine Mayfair almost became a Bond franchise sponsor, almost, very almost - and that tricky social etiquette of forgetting someone's name.

This week Alex spills the beans on his first brush with sloppy romance, why his resting expression gets him in constant trouble and why you should check the facts first before punching someone.

Alex reveals a little known secret today, but don't ever call him Norman. He also reveals the fact he'd like a tattoo and a story about mauve ink.

It's the gift that keeps on giving, this podcast. This week Alex will solve that dilemma of what to buy next time you're invited to a wedding. Also, why he doesn't live in a small village any longer and the hatched plan to drive a top shelf magazine editor absolutely mad!

Ah so that's what happened to the socks then? Sleep deprivation can be hellish as you're about to hear. Also the Dark Lord reveals how he crashed the car and why the family pick on him for mistakes he made four plus decades ago.

Well, we made it, 2020. A new year of podcasts to come and thank you for being part of last year's bash. Just before you head back into work, the Dark Lord shares the last of his holiday six of the best. Suitable for adult ears.

The Dark Lord thought you may like a few of his personal favourites from the first year with his very own podcast. Six of the best served up minus indigestion. Some of his favourite moments with an adult flavour, just like a Christmas pudding doused with far too much cognac.

With just a few days to go to the big day, the Dark Lord attempts to put himself on the naughty list with the first of our Christmas and New Year specials over the holiday period. Six of the Dark Lord's favourite moments from the first year of the podcast. Just make sure it's your maiden aunt that listening along with you and not the kiddies!

This week Alex reveals how his friend launched a new fetish magazine, the celebrities he chooses to avoid, a building disaster in France and why he just can't trust what's said to him by 'store experts.'

Here's a snappy guide on how to have fun with cold callers. Also being British and passing wind plus the button of doom.

Do you get to a certain age where you can just speak your mind as a rite of passage? That subject, the bear proof suit and contentious nobbly knee competitions.

The brand new Monday format and Alex recounts how his father took scissors to his favourite toy, how he met the man behind the most famous advertising tune in history, what went wrong at his first satellite TV job and the day nobody noticed he'd got it momentously wrong in radio.

It's the new Monday show and today Alex shares the intimate story of his Graduate moment. There's tattoo talk and someone got the football scores wrong!

As from next week there's change afoot here at The Best Time of the Day Show Podcast; now there's a mouthful. The show will air on Mondays with a good clutch of new stories each week from The Dark Lord of radio. Make sure to download/listen every Monday either from the website below or via your favourite podcast app, we're on them all! For the last time then, here's the omnibus edition and tune in again Monday!

It's all change next week, as the new Monday episode will have a week's worth of goodies. Start your week with The Dark Lord every Monday and make sure to subscribe; we're on Google and Apple Podcasts, Spotify and your favourite podcast app. Today's short story takes you behind the scenes in radio to find out what really goes on on tour!

Another radio story today. Alex, being an international wireless Megaladon mixes in high circles obviously and here's a one of those 80s style recounts where The Dark Lord takes an American pop star to one of the worst British boozers.

A tale of woe from his early days in radio. It may surprise you, but The Dark Lord is far from perfect. Well, we never thought he was, did we?

The Dark Lord visits Butlins for a holiday programme, but is the kind of place he'd usually holiday?

It's the third omnibus, don't those weeks fly? If you missed the week, here's the best way to catch up, since everyone seems to be 'catching up' these days. Hear how Alex really started in radio, why he needs protection from his own mouth, the day Linda Lusardi had her revenge to why sniffing out gherkins can give you important street wise information. It's all in the latest omnibus.

Alex muses of the skills passed down from our ancestors, useful in the modern world.

Habits have changed in the world from the days when cliché workdudes would whistle cliché tones down to street level. Here's the day Linda Lusardi silenced the lot on a building site.

The Dark Lord has on more than one occasion nearly met the wrong end a hardened knuckle. Luckily he has friends to help him out.

If you want to know how to start in broadcasting, well here's how Alex moved up through the gears. You just need to be good with making tea, special tea that is.

In our second omnibus edition Alex reveals his first car tale driving across Europe, who ate all the sandwiches at a nude photo shoot, why you shouldn't scoff all the on board snacks when flying abroad for the first time and how he almost got signed up by Uncle Sam.

We're not entirely sure he'd have been cut out for it, but here's the closest of shaves for the Dark Lord as he takes a wrong turn touring the States!

Alex takes his first foreign jaunt in Majorca in 1967. The horrors of sharing a room after Alex scoffs all the food on the airliner on the way out. Make sure you're not eating when you listen to this one!

You see, now you get the secrets of life that Alex just couldn't share on national terrestrial radio. Here's a glimpse behind the scenes at the type of photoshoot you and I will probably never experience!

We all love our first car, or so thinks the Dark Lord and now he wishes he'd have kept it!

The first of the omnibus editions by popular request. In this first one, why the top shelf was made of gold for some magazine owners, how living in a house of ill repute is a cold encounter, why laws should only be made at night, plus learn of Alex's encounter with an automatic rabbi.

Alex tries out open day at the Synagogue, so he can understand his friends' faith more, but we're not entirely sure he learned much from this venture.

What would happen if politics only took place at night and those that worked during the wee small hours made all the laws? Well Alex has a theory about this and why it would work perfectly. This Friday the new omnibus edition comes out, the entire week in one sitting.

If you want to eject tenants of a certain stature, there are seemingly tricks of the trade practised by landlords. Here's a tale about what happens when you share your digs with the oldest profession.

We believe The Dark Lord knows too much about stuff like this, but here's an advertising lesson you probably weren't expecting.

Alex recounts a story of a listener train trip to London. Four coach loads of pensioners bound for England's buzzing capital at Christmas. The Dark Lord leaves with a souvenir he wasn't quite planning for.

Greasy spoon or Michelin star. The Dark Lord shares privately with you his idea of the perfect breakfast.

One that could never be recounted when Alex frequented the night time airwaves of The Corporation; a story of what happens when a grown man uses a Polaroid camera for the wrong reasons.

Following on from revealing Boloxnia, we thought it about time you learned about another secret place not yet discovered by the military; Nocturnia, a place of enchantment.

It doesn't matter who you are, or even how large you are, you just don't mess with the Salvation Army. As you're about to find out.

You wouldn't have thought it possible would you? Your own mother, kicking you where it hurts you most.

Just sit tight, don't say too much and certainly don't touch anything. Well, alright you can. But don't tell anyone, alright?

Pining for the age of slam shut doors, the Dark Lord reminisces of the golden age of BR rolling stock.

Why should they have all the fun? Here's a way to tell which celebrities have their feet firmly stapled to planet normal.

Remember that song by Johnny Cash? Well, this isn't quite that story, but here's a tale of keeping things together, even at the most challenging moments.

A story of red mist descending as Alex recounts one of radio's more colourful characters.

Not one to play in front of Grandma today. Alex shares some important drinking knowledge, not to be consumed while you're eating tea.

You may not know this about the Dark Lord, but he is in fact a qualified and very proficient microlight pilot. It all started in rather strange fashion though as you're just about to find out.

We talked about languages yesterday. Today it's all about the accent. The Dark Lord recounts meeting a 'man mountain' in America and chastising him for mocking his English accent.