This was the most fun I've ever had making radio and hopefully it came across. Each week when I stepped into the studio it felt like I was doing something big and I got a gut feeling that it was working. I haven't had that many times in my career so part of me is upset to have given it up, but the fact that I've done it once gives me confidence to know I could do it again (hopefully on a bigger scale). For now, I will have time (one of the most precious commodities) back in my life. 

Producing and presenting The Saturday Show was hard work, but it proved to me a few things. Firstly, local radio is not dead, it's alive and kicking. More and more networking may be going on across the UK but I believe there is still a market for local radio. The size the transmission area is very important though. It mustn't be too small and it mustn't be too big: there is an optimum size. If licences had only been granted with this in mind, Ofcom might not have had to backtrack in the unforgivable way they have.

I've also learned that budgets may have disappeared but where there's a will there's a way. Radio is still about content - it rewards those who create something out of thin air. A show that has been properly prepared feels good to present. It's also a massive bonus to have a boss who trusts you and a boss who is willing to take risks on air. At many other radio stations I would never have been allowed the creative freedoms I had.  

Anyway my reign on The Saturday Show is over and it's time to look forward to the next project, whatever that will be!. I'll leave the archive here just in case you ever want to reminisce!