Just as it must be irritating for cricketer Stuart Broad to be continually compared and sometimes confused with his similarly talented father Chris, so can I imagine that Tom Ravenscroft, who's standing in for Marc Riley on BBC 6 Music, doesn't particularly welcome the continual comparisons with his dad, the late John Peel, who I was missing only the other day.
As he probably won't be reading this blog, I can confirm that the similarities in speech, musical tastes and appearance are definitely there. Apparently, he was also standing in for Tom Robinson, another idol from my youth, when he was away last month. He's presented on obscure stations before, like the short lived Channel 4 Radio and podcasts for Global Soundtracks but let's hope he gets his own BBC 6 Music show soon.
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