A week listening to… BBC Radio 1Xtra

Despite the occasional creepy DJ, it's hard not to be seduced by the spirit and madness of the urban music stationBeing a middle-aged indie fan I am not Radio 1Xtra's target audience, but the first voice I heard was a familiar one – Sarah Cox. Poor Sarah, once breakfast show queen now relegated to emergency DJ: last Monday she hosted three hours of waffle launching a two-day festival 1Xtra is hosting in Hackney in 2012. The programme, broadcast live from inside the Olympic park, was supposed t...

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