He has written and presented a wide range of radio documentaries on politics, history, the arts and entertainment – and been nominated for Sony Awards for some of them.
Since A Rhyme in Time, the panel games he has devised and chaired for BBC Radio 4 include Funny Peculiar, Whispers and, most recently, Wordahollics. He has made more than a hundred appearances on Just A Minute since 1981 and, in 2018 and 2019, sat in as chairman for Nicholas Parsons for four episodes.
He appeared on Britain’s first commercial speech radio station, LBC, on its very first day: 8 October 1973. For five years, between 1997 and 2002, he produced and hosted more than two hundred editions of LBC’s weekly arts and entertainment review, Sunday with Gyles Brandreth.