DJ Simon Mayo has told how he landed at the centre of a legal dust-up with the BBC when he took the p out of PopMaster, the Radio 2 legend Ken Bruce’s popular quiz.
The BBC got in touch when, months after his departure from Radio 2 in 2018, Simon joined Scala Radio. The 62-year-old broadcaster said: “On the first day we did a feature inspired by Ken Bruce’s PopMaster.
We did an opera-based quiz called OpMaster, which was really just a gag. “There were some legal conversations that happened and we didn’t do it again.
But it made people laugh. “But everyone is cool, everyone is grown up, and radio is an intelligent industry. As far as I know, nobody has any problems.” The BBC website reviewed his first Scala show in March 2019, noting his
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