This might be a bit overdue and probably irrelevant now after Radio Five’s commenatry from the Nurburgring brought Murray Walker back to the airwaves, but a few weeks ago (it actually could have been months) I heard Murray chatting away on Radio 4. He had been invited to talk about the championship and Hamilton mania, and it was great to hear him of course, but it got me to thinking…

He just has the kind of voice that makes you want to listen to what he is saying, ok sometimes in the race he gets a bit jumbled up, but his excitement in describing what is happening out on the track seems to overide all of that and you get carried along and feel like you are involved with what is happening too. On this radio segment he even ended up talking about hearing aids and was still interesting to listen to!