The delightful Sarah Kennedy. Photograph: Gill Flett/BBC
I don't believe in having guilty pleasures. It's a hateful concept, with an awful built-in snobbery, and a dreadful phrase. However, I do believe in odd obsessions. Mine - well one of mine - is Sarah Kennedy on Radio 2. As something of an early riser, I tune in to Sarah after I've endured just about as much as I can stand of the Today programme - which is about 10 minutes. (Honestly, David Blaine should try listening to the whole of Today. Now that would test the limits of human endurance.)
Today, Sarah was talking about going to visit her mother, who's approaching 80, and taking some her kaftans. Kaftans were ideal for Sarah's "mummy", Sarah reasoned, as she could pop them on over her bra and knickers and still look glam. Now, is it any wonder that Radio 2 now has a record weekly reach of over 13.5m listeners and a 16.5 per cent share of the entire audience? I mean, people say it's down to Terry Wogan but I'm not so sure. How many of his record 8.1m listeners just can't be bothered re-tuning after La Kennedy has signed off with her trademark "See you tomorrow - if we're spared"? Quite a few.
Anyway, enough of me. What are your odd obsessions? What shows - TV or radio - do you find strangely captivating for reasons that you can't quite reconcile with your otherwise impeccable tastes? Do you, on days off work, tune in with trepidation to ITV1's Loose Women - or HRT TV as it should surely be known? Do you listen again to Elaine Paige on Sunday on Radio 2? Do you Sky+ The ONE Show? Have you been catching up with River City, "the Scottish soap" on the iPlayer? Do you watch Property Ladder religiously despite it being exactly the same every week? (Just me, then).
What do you find car-crash compelling, and why? No prizes for saying "This blog".
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