Gemma Cairney: 'I expected showbiz at the BBC. Instead, I got mildew'

Gemma Cairney, Radio 1's new breakfast DJ, on Madonna and selling tequila shotsGet a show on Radio 1, which emanates from an ageing BBC outpost in central London, and you work in the basement. Get a show on Radio 1's sister station 1Xtra and you work from a studio on the third floor – nicer, with windows, but a strict no-eating policy. Daylight or lunch: these are the luxuries presenters trade when they switch between the stations, as Gemma Cairney is about to do."When I first came to work in ...

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