Alan Brazil News
August 2006
Talksport announced that from 14 August 2006 Alan Brazil will be rejoined by Mike 'Porky' Parry on the breakfast show after Porky's two-year absence due to heart problems.
Porky said:
"I've been raring to get back in the studio with Alan, but the doctors kept refusing to give the go-ahead, they said that my heart wasn't up to it. As the listeners will know, you need to be fighting fit if you want to square up to Alan in the debating stakes.
"It was only when the doctors were sure my heart could take the on-air arguments we're bound to have that they gave me the all clear and said I could go in the studio with him without the need to have an ambulance on stand-by."
15 December 2005
Talksport's breakfast show with Alan Brazil and Graham Beecroft was rated the Number One Radio Show in the nation by the advertising weeekly, Campaign Magazine.
19 March 2005
Surprise, surprise, Alan Brazil did not show up for the Breakfast Show on Friday. Well it was the day of the Gold Cup!
Paddy Power had earlier suspended their betting on the market as the signs became clear. Earlier in the week, referring to the incident last year when he went off skiing (the snow was fantastic in Meribel), Alan Brazil suggested this time might be different:
"Last year I was bang out of order and I held my hand up. This year? Well, I am due in on Friday . . . whether I'll be there or not I don't know. I have to go home Thursday because it's my wife's birthday but I might be back here Friday. We'll see."
Brazil's non-appearance was the one banker this Cheltenham.
8 December 2004:
Ex-footballer Alan Brazil had a hiccough in his co-presenting of Talksport Radio's breakfast show.
I am very grateful to Talksport1089.co.uk for their report, which can be summarised:
"The Daily Mail has today reported that Alan Brazil has received a soccer-style fine for thee latest breach of his talkSPORT contract... his new agreement stipulates a fine of £5,000 if he fails to complete a show for reasons his bosses regard as unacceptable... Sale goes onto say that yesterday’s antics from Brazil has occurred for the third time in four months when he was taken off air after only 12 minutes because talkSPORT executives claim, he was slurring his words. Brazil blamed his enunciation problems on the cough mixture he had been taking which has turned out to be an expensive remedy."
What I find curious is the timing. Up at the crack of dawn, I was listening to the breakfast show and had just read The Racing Post, December 7, 2004:
"Paul d'Arcy has accepted 'a substantial sum in damages' and an apology from the publishers of the Ipswich-based Evening Star over an article that claimed he had acted unlawfully over the sale of subsequent Classic winner Indian Haven...
"...Mr Atkins [d'Arcy's lawyer] said the article suggested there were grounds to suspect d'Arcy had conducted himself 'unprofessionally, unlawfully and disgracefully' in connection with the sale, and had acted in flagrant disregard of the interest of his 'co-owner', former footballer Alan Brazil who, in fact, was never a registered owner of the colt.
"The article carried the headline, 'Brazil counting the cost of £100,000 horse sale ...it's now worth £3m ..."
As Jung would say 'syncronicity'.