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From the blog of Gideon Paull at The Times of Israel

Nation Radio UK has replaced Mike Read with Neil Fox on the breakfast show. Mike Read wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday morning saying the station has decided to have a breakfast show ‘that confirms and fits in with the rest of the day’s programmes both in content and musically’, and that he was surprised by the decision. Instead, Mike will continue to be part of the weekend schedule, including as host of the Heritage Chart. Mike tells RadioToday he’s also keeping busy writing: “...

Print Phil Springer maneuvers his knobby but agile fingers across the keys of the upright piano in his daughter’s living room and croons the opening lines of the Christmas song so sexy that when Eartha Kitt recorded it for the first time in 1953 it was banned in parts of the South: Santa baby, just slip a sable under the tree / for me / Been an awful good girl / Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight. At 91, his voice might not purr like Kitt’s did — it’s more an affectionate bar...