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The end of an ear

(or 'era' if you prefer)
It's over! The last Christian O'Connell Breakfast show on Xfm has been and gone. Always the highlight of any uni holiday, daytrip down south (like early morning starts for uni championship karting) and more recently commutes to work, it was a brilliant show for 5 years.

There are a couple of mp3s available online, not great quality but well worth having a listen to if you're an Xfm fan:

• The last 5 minutes of the last show, finishing off with Chris Smith's final Changing Tunes (to The Littlest Hobo)
• An eleven-minute compilation of the finest moments of Xfm breakfast.

The latter includes all the classics, just a few of these being the culmination of the Hasselhof campaign, Brian Blessed, Damon from Oval and a reminder of earlier in the week when Stephen Fry phoned the show to hear the Fry vs. Blessed mash-up. The funniest moment on the compilation is when Christian encourages a listener to propose to his girlfriend on air to win tickets to the Reading Festival – the listener goes off to do it and Christian is left floundering "I'm not ready! No! What've I done?!"

Lauren Laverne takes over Breakfast soon and Christian is starting at Virgin (booo) in late January. Luckily Lauren is completely nuts too, so getting up in the mornings should be no less pleasant despite the dark and the rain and the traffic and the…

: 23 Oct 2005 15:20 |  Tags: About Me Xfm |  Comments (3) |  Close comments |  Report a problem