Janice Long's late-night show is a cosy, friendly nocturnal natter
Janice Long (Radio 2) is looking for Christmas. "I decided to look for Christmas yesterday," she told listeners, "but I couldn't find it." She went into some big department stores, but they were all "bright lights and ker-ching". Her search for the festive spirit is set to continue at London's Borough Market, where she hopes to see "cockney people pushing barrows". Good luck with that.
Long's late night show is an affable, cosy thing and a good old nocturnal natter. One woman asked if it's wrong to be "icing Christmas cakes and drinking Bailey's" while her family is asleep, and Long told her to get her husband up to do the icing so that she could sit down with her drink. Another listener is having a gin and tonic after a late shift. "Ooh, a G&T," Long cooed, going into a reverie about how she likes to make them.
Her chat is down to earth, and she's not worried about looking silly. "I thought Dunkirk was in Scotland," she said. "Not recently. A while back." She talks cheeseboard selections at length with Alex Lester at a handover, and gives unaffected little glimpses of the sort of things that shape her day. That search for Christmas was delayed a bit, she explained: "I had to wait for Midsomer Murders to end."
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