Richard Bacon Interview

Like so many great broadcasters, Richard Bacon's life has not quite been a bed of roses. And his audience like him all the more for it. Equipped with intelligence, charm, wit, annoyingly good looks and a radio gift, Richard Bacon has emerged from BBC Local Radio, through a TV diversion, to become one of the UK radio's freshest and most versatile talents. Now on 5Live, he shows where conversational contemporary talk radio is heading.

Here, he talks openly in 2013 about his life, in a relaxed fashion, with his old friend and colleague, John Holmes, at BBC Radio Nottingham where it all began for this Mansfield lad.