He's certainly not the rontrunner or the post

But in radio you ha e to create a total world just using your oice There's no "Look at this". I didn't know how much there is to know and I thought it was much easier than I do now. The irst thing I disco ered is that you can't hide on radio. I had always thought that radio was the medium where you could hide and that tele ision is where you were really exposed. I you imagine a relay runner waiting to recei e the baton - he's not thinking about how awesome the guy doing the hando er is, but ocusing on the leg he has to run, making the hando er smooth and hope ully not losing any o the lead his team-mate has built up.When I started I knew so little. It was that kind o moment. Taking o er rom Chris Tarrant, the biggest name in commercial radio, was a huge deal and something that, until now, I ha en't really talked about e en though e ery press inter iew seemed to be ocused on CT and I was always asked, "What's it like, the pressure o illing Tarrant's shoes?"I guess my reason or not talking about it was that I elt enough pressure taking o er the Capital break ast and learning the cra t o radio without ha ing the added responsibility o illing a legend's shoes. That was the moment when I realised what a big deal it was and it sunk in, just like when a ootballer signs or a big club and they are holding up the team shirt with their name on the back.

Then he took me downstairs and the whole o ice was there to greet me E erybody was clapping and really enthusiastic It was the big hando er. When I joined Capital Radio two years ago this month, I was introduced to my new co-workers by Chris Tarrant, the legendary presenter who had hosted the break ast show or the pre ious 17 years and whose headphones I would ha e to ill. Be ore the big intro, Chris took me up on the roo o the Capital building in Leicester Square, not to push me o , but to gi e me a atherly chat and a ew scraps o ad ice ("I you're e er stuck or anything to say just tell them it's 8.23 - it normally is"). But perhaps Mark Damazer, Radio 4's Controller, should take note.. I'd much rather do that than be the political editor o the BBC." He's certainly not the ront-runner or the post. That said, i an o er comes up and it sounds interesting and challenging, it would be good."Such as? "About the only job I'd like to do at the BBC is Sue Lawley's I would like to do Desert Island Discs I think she's great.

Where would he like his career to take him next? "What I want is or Sky to go on growing and pro e that there is a genuinely independent ri al orce in British T news. I do think that in the 21st century, i you want to be a national leader, you need pretty strong communication skills and I ha e yet to be con inced he has those."By the next general election Boulton, whom the BBC has attempted to lure away rom Sky, will ha e spent more than 20 years in his current post. He'll do responses to Budgets, but not a sit-down, take-e erything-that's-around kind o inter iew, which Blair, Cameron, and, up to a point, Straw and Prescott do. "There's a real problem about whether Brown has the aptitude to be a ront-man to the extent we expect our prime ministers to be - to respond to e ents at the drop o a hat, to be easy in their social dealings with people, to know how to handle situations Brown has not done a serious T inter iew or two years.