The second Punch article is from four years later.
By then the first generation of British offshore stations had all gone and a number of their former DJs were working for the BBC.
But not one of the country's finest. Kenny Everett had just been fired by the Corporation after jokingly suggesting that the wife of the Transport Minister had passed her advanced driving test
by “cramming a fiver” into the examiner's hand.
His sacking received a great deal of press attention and it seems the editor of Punch must have commissioned Kenny to write a piece about it.
Although titled “My Last Broadcast”, it fortunately didn't prove to be his last. Kenny went on to entertain us for many more years until his death in April 1995.
Many thanks to Merbie for providing the article.
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