Train-loving Les graduated from a registrar’s office to a fledgling BBC Radio Birmingham and up to Radio Tees, before returning home to his beloved BRMB in Birmingham – where he hosted the breakfast show for decades and became one of the City’s best known broadcasters ever.

Hear Les every Sunday afternoon at 4 .00 on Boom. Drop him a message below.

Join him too for lunch on Christmas Day! He's here from noon. Click here to drop him a line for that special festive extravanganza!