From the dross of broadcasting, to the boss of broadcasting; or certainly - as Russell Davies put it in his Radio 2 documentary 'From Broadcast to Podcast' on New Year's Eve - one of its rather talented Uncles.

This week I have the pleasure of working with the great Henry Kelly on his radio show, and although my role is restricted to pressing the odd button on behalf of a regular minion completing his festive holiday, I'm only too pleased to begin 2007 in such a way.

The delights of a morning spent in a confined space with a broadcasting legend like Henry are many. He'll disappear seconds after the start of a record and reappear seconds before its end, clutching two cups of fresh soup, one for him, one for you; he'll regale you with irreverent stories that leave you crying with laughter long after he's regained composure enough to rattle off a (slightly) cleaned-up version for the benefit of his listeners.

But above all, you always learn so much. Did you know, for example, that Henry is the only man in Europe to own a bouncy castle made entirely of PVC leather? Or that Henry launched the highly successful Llama Wear clothes label, whose jumpers and cardigans were critically acclaimed at Milan Fashion Week? No, neither did he...

In today's show, one of Henry's regular technology pundits was extolling the virtues of Wikipedia, a phenomenon which was apparently just as new to Henry as it would be to the listeners. To illustrate, Mr Technology tried to impress Henry by quoting a string of Henry Kelly facts from his page in the Wiki annals, and duly impressed Henry was.

Had that reading of 'facts' been allowed to continue south along the page, I'm certain the result would have been quite different. Later during a record, Henry's producer called through to the studio and demanded to know more about "the Crawford Baptie scandal", in which "(Henry), Bob Holness and Bruno Brookes had (allegedly) spent £10,000 of BBC money at a Liberace auction house in Stoneybridge".

Henry was equally surprised and amused to read about the scandal, just as he was to learn about his supposed ownership of the bouncy castle and his pioneering role in the llama fashion market. The horse's mouth playfully dismissed it on-air as "nonsense", and promptly went back to drinking its soup. Great radio.

Besides, it's not the first time Henry's been exposed to a little online indiscretion, and it's a delight to note that like so many of the broadcasting greats, he doesn't take any of it too seriously. As Henry himself remarked as he pawed over his Producer's lovingly crafted script to introduce today's classical music spot, "It's amazing what you can download from the internet these days..."