WELL, if that's the way to win back your core audience, or even attract new, I fear for Radio Solent's future.

Sally Taylor might be a competent "linker-upper" on TV, but in this role, well, I would have enjoyed a kinder acoustic experience listening to a rusty saw attack a tin bath! All that forced humour, the coffee machine joke was a belter - all 23 times, you could imagine Mia Costello frantically ringing round her pals to join in the fun.

Eager to please, Sally gushed her way through the agony, embracing each caller like her life depended on it. Perhaps her career does.

Still, the fans in fogbound Romania were enjoying it. Maybe that's where next weeks star prize flight tickets should be for. I can think of two people I'd love to see win it!

J C MARTIN, Hedge End, Southampton.

PS Please could they take the "croissants" with them.