Paxman's Late Night Love

I have a confession to make...

As well as having been sucked into the late night showings of Jerry Springer (Jerry has soooo changed - they've got all these new sound effects - for example a boxing bell when people start fighting, a police siren when anyone mentions their time "inside", etc.). I am aware that this is a slippery slope - first Jerry Springer, next, who knows. Well, as it would turn out, I appear to know.

I have found myself more and more, turning on the radio when I go to bed and tuning into Graham Torrington's Late Night Love. This show consists of Graham Torrington giving "advice" to the woebegotten callers. Tonight, his parade as a relationship expert consisted of him warning us of the spreading epidemic that is hitting our country: The Serial Cheat.

Apparently cheating in the UK has reached epidemic proportions - yes - this is not just something that is happening here and there - the country is rife with it. People everywhere are cheating on their partners - you yourself should be constantly checking pockets for phone numbers, sniffing coats for lingering remnants of alien perfume (not from actual aliens - I just mean perfumes that may not belong to you...), checking car glove compartments for stray lingerie that is not yours and checking shirt collars for suspicious lipstick marks.

Old Graham appears to have taken it upon himself to behave as if he is the Jeremy Paxman of relationship shows. He asks questions as if he thinks he questioning the prime minister on the state of the nation - in that sort of agressive "I'm right, you're morally questionable" sort of way, leaving large pauses once someone's answered his question, as if to say "there you go - that's the morally questionable sort of answer I was expecting from you - now what else do you have to say for yourself that is going to prove that I'm wrong about you".

Never heard Graham Torrington? Well fear not, you too, can experience this phenomenon that is Mr Torrington, King of local radio trash shows, because he's probably featuring on a station near you...

Click here and scroll down to the Graham Torrington section - and count yourself lucky if you don't fall into the catchment area for any of those 40 (yes, that's FORTY) stations that feature Late Night Love.