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The Guardian - UK
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Edinburgh festival: Jim Bowen
Jim Bowen at the Edinburgh festival. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty

"Stay out of the black and in the red - this next song is by Franz Ferdinand." "You can't beat a bit of bully! Tomorrow's weather - showers with sunny spells." Why is Monkey talking such nonsense? Because Jim Bowen has turned his hand to radio presenting on Cumbrian community station 106.6 Indigo FM. The former Bullseye man is hosting a mid-morning slot broadcasting to the good people of Kirkby Lonsdale, Ingleton, Casterton, Caton and Clapham. It is not the former Bullseye presenter's first radio gig. He hosted a show on BBC Radio Lancashire for three years until he resigned after making a racist remark on air. Indigo FM probably doesn't have the budget of its BBC brethren, but we're sure it earns more than enough to pay for Bowen's BFH. That's bus fare home, if you didn't watch Bullseye. Are you asking me or telling me? You can't beat a bit of Indigo FM.

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