Planet Bern

Welcome to Planet Bern (it's close to Uranus). Feel free to launch your probe and linger around our craters for as long as you wish.

Bert...or is it Ernie?

On these pages you'll find everything you need to know (and much you couldn't give a tuppenny toss over) about BBC Radio Northampton's mid-morning presenter and the team that joins him every weekday from 8 'til 11 with radio's most loved load of camp old nonsense.

There are pictures and biogs of the whole team, a chance to hear again some of Bernie's best interviews, features, regular diary pieces and articles, and you can put any question you want to him. Try and make them original: the most commonly asked questions Bern's been set in nearly 20 years as a pro (and an old one, at that!) are: where did he come from? Is he like it all the time? And is he or isn't he?

He's more than happy to answer them again, but he'd prefer something a little fresher, as everyone would on their first day back on the college campus.

Planet Bern is unlike any other. He lives in a unique world, unfettered by the ravages of talent or taste. So stiffen up your mouse, light up your laptop, and have a look around.

Choice interviews

On Thursday, 4th October 2007, Bernie spoke to his first radio hero - Tony Blackburn - at the launch of his autobiography 'Poptastic', about his start on the pirate ships, the launch of Radio 1 and the ups and downs of his life:

On Wednesday, 17th October 2007, Motor racing legend Sir Jackie Stewart took time out of a book signing in Northampton to speak to Bernie about his high regard for Northamptonshire, his friendship with Beatle George Harrison - and of course the boy wonder Lewis Hamilton:

On Tuesday, 6th November 2007, Bernie was joined in the studio by a new group described by some as Theatreland's answer to Il Divo - Teatro:

On Monday, 11th February 2008, the former lead singer of X Factor runners-up G4, Jonathan Ansell, joined Bernie live in the studio as he releases a brand new solo album of movie classics:

Anna B's Mum's Chocolate Pudding Recipe

ingredients:
4oz dark chocolate (70% cocoa)
4 oz butter
3 eggs
3oz caster sugar
2oz plain flour
Milka (or similar melting choc)

Directions:
- Melt dark chocolate with butter
- Whisk eggs and sugar till fluffy
- Fold in flour
- Add dark choc/butter mix to flour/eggs/sugar mix
- Mix together
- Pour into 6 rammequins, and add 1 or 2 cubes of Milka to each (choc cubes should sink down in to the mix)
- Bake for no longer than 12 minutes (adjust if fan assisted) at 180 degrees
- Serve immediately