Radio review: Chain Reaction | The First Time With . . .

Stephen Merchant gets nervous before hero Jarvis Cocker, while Bernard Sumner recalls forming Joy DivisionChain Reaction (Radio 4, Friday) – a great programme idea that regularly delivers excellent one-off interviews – ended its current run with Stephen Merchant quizzing Jarvis Cocker. Merchant said he was nervous about meeting an idol and sounded it, fluffing his lines and laughing a little too long and loud at a couple of funny asides.Still, adulation would be easy to slip into with the si...

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