Name Droppers - Martin Kelner : Radio Colossus, Esteemed Journalist and Name Dropping Aficionado
Name Droppers
Thursday, 16 October 2025 - 29 minutes
Martin Kelner joins Watko to do a spot of name dropping and talks about his new life as an influencer, podcaster, content creator and cult leader.Martin is best known for his witty columns in numerous national newspapers, his humour filled radio programmes and his regular blockbuster appearances on BBC 5 Live’s award winning Fighting Talk.He’s worked as a broadcaster for almost half a century at numerous radio stations across the UK including the likes of BBC Radio 2, LBC, TalkSPORT, BBC Radio Leeds, JAZZ FM and Hallam FM (the latter being where his career as a presenter began).Martin has gained a reputation not only as a unique talent in his own right, but he’s also been a great supporter of others over the years and has given many household names their first opportunities in showbusiness. A talent-spotting guru!He has also written three best selling books, When Will I Be Famous?, Sit Down and Cheer and Wrestling in Honey.Martin has always been an innovator and got involved in podcasting in its infancy creating The Piss Poor Podcast with his ever present sidekick Edouard Lapaglia.He is now working on a number of new exciting projects that are based at martinkelner.substack.com and www.youtube.com/@MartinKelnerTVThey provide the platform for his two regular podcasts, Un Podcast De Martin Kelner and also Screen Break with journalist Will Buckley.The former covering a mix of topical commentary, humour, observations about current events, pop culture and an insight into his daily life in Wakefield. The latter being a reinvention of his old Guardian column focusing on everything you can watch on the small, medium sized and big screen.You can subscribe to get a peek into Martin's World via his substack and for the price of a cup of crap coffee a month you can also get lots of exclusive content.It's well worth taking the plunge! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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