Join Martin Ingram for Original 106's Sunday Brunch every weekend from 10am-2pm.
It's the ideal accompaniment to your Sunday morning into Sunday afternoon, with great music (lots of it...), a bit of chat, some of the juicy bits from the Sunday papers, and if Martin has anything to do with it the coffee's on and the croissants are in!
Guests on Sunday brunch in the past include Jeff Wayne who talked to Martin about bringing the mammoth production of War Of The Worlds to the AECC; Linda Gray from Dallas; Paul Merton from "Have I Got News For You"; Stefan Dennis who plays Paul Robinson in Neighbours; Singing Kettle; Zammo from Grange Hill, Newton Faulkner, and actor Simon Williams from "Don't Wait Up" and "Upstairs Downstairs".
JIM BOWEN Gentleman-Jim Bowen, star of tv's "Comedians" and of course "Bullseye" recently took Martin's category-board quiz , and you can hear Martin in conversation with one of the tv greats (or should that be super-smashing-greats?) on this page soon.
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EUGENE SULLY A recent breakfast-show "Are You Smarter" quiz contestant, who was on Big Brother 1995 is Eugene. Exclusive to originalfm.com, here's a bit of the conversation here.
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ISLA ST CLAIR
Martin called Isla to see what she's up to these days and to reminisce on when she and larry Grayson used to pull in up to 20 million viewers on saturday nights for tv classic "The Generation Game"
BIG BROTHER 2000! Love it or hate it, it's difficult to totally avoid it! Big Brother 9 is with us again. Martin recently spoke to original Big Brother winner Craig Phillips to see if he thinks it's still worth watching and how things have changed with this tv phenomenon since it began back in the year 2000.
ANNE BEGG MP
Recently, Anne Begg, Labour MP for Aberdeen South took part in Martin's "Are You Smarter" quiz. What you didn't hear was the chat about life as an MP, Westminster traditions, how tough a time Gordon Brown is having, and more.....
MARTIN & A GAMESHOW GOD!!! ITV are currently screening the latest in a long line of tv gameshow comebacks, this time its good old "Mr & Mrs"! And on Sunday Martin spoke to the man who will be forever linked with the show in it's heyday - Sir Derek Batey. Well - he's not a sir.....but he should be!
Derek Batey, from the gameshow old skool presented "Mr & Mrs" for an incredible 21 years from 1967 to 1988. It's seen several revivals since, but if you're of the belief that the original is always the best (of course it is...) this will always remain the definitive version.
Martin spoke with Paul, otherwise known as "The Cat", who runs a website that's a must for all pop fans in Scotland. The website is called Jock'n'Roll, and Paul's a bit of a dab hand at tv quiz shows having appeared in loads of them. In fact that's how martin found out about the website after his recent appearance on BBC2's "Brainbox Challenge" the other week. Have a listen to this part of Martin's chat with the cat!
MARTIN MET NEWTON FAULKNER
He's had an incredible year, a massive selling album with "Hand Built By Robots", he's a genius on the guitar and on Wednesday played to a capacity crowd at the Music Hall, as part of his sell-out tour. Martin caught up with Newton back stage and found out his feelings on playing live, visiting Aberdeen and they compared guitar-fingers!
THE SOUND OF... Martin was joined on the phone for a chat by local lass Amy Lennox, who's doing rather nicely for herself on the stage of London's Palladium Theatre, no less! She's appearing as Liesl in "The Sound Of Music"! (Yes, the one with Connie Fisher!).
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Grange Hill's most notorious pupil - Zammo Maguire, AKA Lee MacDonald called up the show when Grange Hill got the chop.
Have a listen here, Lee's talking about being involved in that famous storyline that (kind of) made a pop star out of him.
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THE AIRPORT CREW TO TACKLE BEN NEVIS FOR A GREAT CAUSE
AberdeenAirport staff are preparing for the next leg of their fundraising campaign in aid of a five year old autistic boy from Aberdeenshire – climbing the highest mountain in the
British Isles. The family of Fraserburgh boy Blaine Innes hope to take the youngster to a world-renowned autism centre in the
US. The total cost of
Blaine’s travel and treatment at the Son-Rise Programme in
Boston is estimated at around £16,000.
Airport staff launched the Going the distance for
Blaine campaign, to help the fund the trip which experts say could turn the youngster’s life around. Now four members of staff will be joined by a retired airport police Inspector on a climb of
Ben Nevis in
Western Scotland. The airport’s Malcolm Brown, Gavin Roberts, Gareth Bristo and Ross Murray will scale the 4,406 ft peak in July this year. Since last year, airport manager Malcolm Brown has been working with Blaine to help him become accustomed to the airport environment. Malcolm has already helped more than 30 youngsters with autism in recent years, in support of the Grampian Autistic Society. Blaine’s condition means unusual or unfamiliar situations can be extremely stressful for
Blaine and familiarising him with what to expect at an airport will ultimately help him make the journey to the
US.
Malcolm said: “We’re looking forward to the climb but we’re in no doubt about how challenging it’s going to be.
Blaine is a lovely wee boy and anything we can do to help will be well worth the effort. The programme in
Boston is renowned for the huge difference it makes in the lives of young autism sufferers and we are determined to help
Blaine get there.” The climb follows a major event in December last year which saw around a dozen airport staff taking part in a 12 hour sponsored cycle on exercise bikes within the airport terminal. The cyclists kept the wheels turning constantly and raised more than £1,500 through generous donations from passengers.
Airport Managing Director Kevin Brown was impressed with the staffs efforts he pledged to match the sum raised, brining the total to just over £3,000. In addition, several members of the public have since pledged cash for the campaign. Malcolm added: “We would like to thank everyone who have been supporting the campaign and we’d like to encourage anyone who thinks they can help to contact us. Taking part in the Son-rise programme will make a huge difference in this special little boy’s life.”
Last year
AberdeenAirport donated more than £6,300 through it’s charity committee. Donations and funding is available for local groups, clubs and schools in the area – for more information or to request fundraising support, write to The Charity Committee,
AberdeenAirport, Dyce,
Aberdeen,
AB21 7DU.
Join Martin Ingram for Original 106's Sunday Brunch every weekend from 10am-2pm.
A recent breakfast-show "Are You Smarter" quiz contestant, who was on Big Brother 1995 is Eugene. Exclusive to originalfm.com, here's a bit of the conversation here.
Martin called Isla to see what she's up to these days and to reminisce on when she and larry Grayson used to pull in up to 20 million viewers on saturday nights for tv classic "The Generation Game"
BIG BROTHER 2000!
Recently, Anne Begg, Labour MP for Aberdeen South took part in Martin's "Are You Smarter" quiz. What you didn't hear was the chat about life as an MP, Westminster traditions, how tough a time Gordon Brown is having, and more..... 
MARTIN MET NEWTON FAULKNER
THE SOUND OF...
Grange Hill's most notorious pupil - Zammo Maguire, AKA Lee MacDonald called up the show when Grange Hill got the chop.
Aberdeen
