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The Guardian - UK
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Monkey

French + Saunders x Cassidy = Radio 2

Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. Photograph: BBC

So exactly how long will it be before Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders turn up on BBC Radio 2? Monkey only mentions this after French said the duo were interested in having their own radio show. "Strangely enough we would like to do radio, we never did that," she told Simon Mayo on BBC Radio 5 Live on Friday. "We don't know if we would be any good at it. We realised when we were driving around on tour playing the tunes we like playing, which are mainly lots of 70s stuff [like] David Cassidy, we thought that might be quite nice for an hour to be in the company of French and Saunders." French? Saunders? Cassidy? On the wireless? For an hour? Monkey reckons they'll be commissioned by Radio 2 before you can say Lesley Doug ... On the other hand, they might also end up doing a telly chatshow. Please. God. No. "We would quite like to do a chatshow, with both of us blethering in somebody's ear," added French. "I don't know if we would be any good at it, but we would like to have a go at it." Let's stick with the radio stuff for now - and see if you still want to do the chatshow after that.

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