This is absolute radio Frank celebrating Frank Skinner's 60th birthday.

This is Adrian Chiles on absolute radio Frank interviewing Frank, which is a great privilege.

Do you select me for this Frank or was I forced upon you?

You were suggested to me and after some wrangling I gave in.

I was worried that people won't understand two accents like this, but you know, I think

they're available in the West Midlands.

That'll be good.

What did you listen to when you were a kid?

What's your first memory of local radio?

It must be West Brom related surely.

It was BRMB in Birmingham, obviously.

Two things, Les Ross's Breakfast Show, which included things like a sort of regular sitcom,

which was a Western, which used to be on every day.

I don't know who did the voices.

There was never any credits.

And then the sports stuff was a bloke called Tony Botler, who you may remember.

It was a fabulous, he's catchphrase was, OK, OK, no one's ever never nabbed for

themselves to mind.

When you went to the Albion, you stayed to the end.

My granddad used to drag me off early.

So many times we were driving away.

I had Tony Botler say, goal at the Hawthorne's, Tony Trathouac.

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