IF TERRY Wogan stalwarts were phased by the risqué humour of Chris Evans and Jonathan Ross, the unleashing of Russell Brand and his infamous ballbags into the rarified atmosphere of Radio Two later this month is likely to provoke the kind of stramash The Archers' racier plotlines once caused on Radio Four.
How listeners more accustomed to whimsy with just a hint of double entendre will cope with his Dickensian pretensions and his relentless, in-your-face, sexually explicit repartee is anyone's guess. But then the former heroin addict has been on a consistent upwards trajectory since he fronted Channel 4's Big Brother's Big Mouth and made the most of a brief encounter with supermodel Kate Moss, so he could easily prove a hit.
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