Danny Baker slams BBC 'Delivering Quality First' cuts

Danny Baker has hit out at the scrapping of his award-winning radio show under the BBC Delivering Quality First cuts programme.

The DJ presents the Danny Baker Show live on BBC London on weekdays from 3pm-5pm.

Baker said on Twitter: "So the BBC London afternoon show - current Sony Gold Holder - is to be part of the Delivering Quality First cuts. The logic of Genius.

"Nothing like having your show axed under an initiative called Delivering Quality First to let you know how valued you are. #CrapOutFirst."

"Just off up the end of the garden with 3 Sony Gold awards (one current, one not even mine) and a stick of dynamite. #DeliveringDynamiteFirst."

Before posting a video to a Zane Lowe Radio 1 video advert, he then quipped: "The BBC cuts are essential & I am happy to fall on their sword. I mean, how else are they to fund ads like this?

Watch the Zane Lowe Radio 1 advert below:



Baker picked up the Sony Gold Award for 'Speech Radio Personality of the Year' in May and was described as "a true original" by the judges.

He said soon after that he had "turned a corner" after undergoing treatment for mouth and throat cancer.

Around 2,000 jobs will be cut by 2017 under the Delivering Quality First programme and various BBC services reduced, director general Mark Thompson confirmed yesterday.

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