Alex Cann

Alex presents the Tameside Radio morning show.

He's partial to a bubble bath, a lot of trips to the cinema, and is also a bit of a politics geek.

He's a great knowledge of chart music from across the decades, and presented on many different UK radio stations for the last 21 years, but most of all loves being a big part of the Tameside Radio team.

His favourite dessert is tiramisu, and his wife has the same birthday as him, a fact she is not a fan of.

You can hear Alex on Tameside Radio every weekday between 6am and 11am.

You can also follow Alex on twitter @alexbcann

 

HERE ARE SOME ALEX'S PREVIOUS SHOWS:

• Alex Cann Column - 20th March 2025

  With the cost of a first-class stamp set to rise to £1.70 in April, the sixth increase in the last three years. I'd suggest buying a book of stamps at the current price and stashing them away for a rainy day. Just call me Martin Lewis and be done with it.

• Alex B Cann Column - 13th March 2025

  The money app Plum has published a list of questions most likely to elicit a negative response at a dinner party. Even though I am fairly unlikely to plan any such occasions any time soon, I thought it might be useful to take you through the list, to spare you any potential blushes, should the Come Dine With Me cameras be filming at your place. Incidentally, why do so many contestants on that show do steak as a main course? I guess it's seemingly straightforward to cook, yet everyone has very particular preferences about how well (or otherwise) it's done, so the potential for mishaps is great.

• Alex B Cann Column - March 6th 2025

  "It's a Brat Brits", shrieked irksome host Jack Whitehall, as Charli XCX bagged one of her five awards during the ceremony. I've watched the Brits most years for as long as I can remember, and whilst it's shattering my showbiz age admitting this, I remember the Mick Fleetwood and Samantha Fox 1989 debacle all too clearly. If you don't recall this TV car crash, it's worth watching on YouTube for the sheer comedy value. Bros being presented with the Best Newcomer award by Ronnie Wood was a highlight.

• Alex Cann's weekly blog - 9th January

  It was tempting to write something this week about the digital darts being fired from the keyboard of the world's richest man, and how it might be better if we just switched social media off for a bit, but for the sake of my blood pressure, I thought I'd share the first part of a musical Top 10 with you.

• Alex's Weekly Blog - 31st October

  Back in March, celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley -Whittingstall clashed with the health secretary at the time, Victoria Atkins, over what he claimed was the government's failure to tackle the obesity crisis. Measures such as limits on special offers and banning junk food adverts before 9pm were kicked into the long grass until at least October 2025. Separately, reports have suggested that the pandemic made obesity rates significantly worse among children, as unhealthy eating habits and a lack of exercise became the norm.

• Alex's Weekly Blog - 17th October

  A gentle reminder that British Summer Time ends at 2am on Sunday 27th October, and the clocks 'fall back'. There's a survey for everything, and in 2019, a YouGov poll found that 59% of Brits would prefer to remain permanently in BST.

• Alex's Weekly Blog - 10th October

  I was shocked to read a report recently into the scale of shoplifting at Co-op stores. Despite the chain returning pre-tax profits of £58 million for the first half of the year,  they were hit with huge costs from theft and fraud amounting to almost £40 million, amid a shoplifting epidemic.

• Alex's Weekly Blog - 3rd October

  Back in the day, I used to love watching Top Of The Pops on a Thursday night. It was one of the telly highlights of the week, at a time when there were only three channels, no social media, and Dial-A-Disc was still a thing (ask your parents if this doesn't ring a bell).

• Alex's Weekly Blog - 26th September

  The UK has a rich history when it comes to condiments. A lot add unami taste to our dishes (a Japanese word meaning 'savoury deliciousness'), and a survey carried out recently by Fentimans found brown sauce ranks second in a list of the UK's top 10 favourite bold flavours.

• Alex's Weekly Blog - 19th September

  I wrote about stress recently, and feel quite zen this week, apart from the fact I'm writing this column right up against the deadline.I don't know where the weeks are going, and Christmas is now less than 100 days away, whilst the nights are drawing in faster than I can eat a bag of Haribo Tangfastics.

• Alex Cann Film Column - 20th March 2025

  There are some pretty decent offerings this week, beginning with the taut, twisty spy thriller Black Bag. Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett lead a strong cast in this tale of subterfuge, loyalty, double-crossing, and gameplaying. It's a neat entry into my 'decent films lasting no more than 90 minutes' list, as George Woodhouse (Fassbender) is tasked with finding a mole within their spy circle. Unfortunately for him, one of the possible suspects is his wife Kathryn (Blanchett). Will he put his job before his marriage?

• Alex B Cann Film Column - 13th March 2025

  Marching Powder is a contender for the worst film of 2025 so far for me. Danny Dyer plays Jack Jones, an ageing, down-on-his-luck football hooligan whose marriage is on the rocks as his life spirals out of control. The biggest wonder is that Dani (Stephanie Leonidas) sticks around past the opening scenes. In my book, this is certainly not a film to rush to see on the big screen.

• Alex B Cann Film Column - March 6th 2025

  I was fortunate enough to catch a preview screening this week of Flow, the Oscar-winning Latvian animation about a solitary cat caught up in a raging flood and forced to team up with other animals to try and survive the torrent. There's not a single word of dialogue, but this is a mesmerising watch from start to finish. An unlikely alliance is forged between the cat, a capybara, a dog, and a secretary bird, and the film leaves us thinking about climate change, living in the moment, and survival. Clever stuff, and it proves that sometimes you don't need a wordy script to move cinema audiences.

• Alex Cann's weekly film blog - 9th January

  A mix this week of stuff that I watched over the festive season and a couple from this week, to start another year of movie watching!

• Alex's Weekly Film Blog - 31st October

  With it being Halloween week, it's worth mentioning that horror has had a rather lucrative year at the cinema, with movies such as The Substance, Terrifier 3 and Smile 2 all delighting audiences and smashing their budgets at the box office.

• Alex's Weekly Film Blog - 17th October

  There's often a debate about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie. In my book, it absolutely is. It contains four Christmas songs in the soundtrack, the action takes place at a Christmas Eve office party, and both the director and scriptwriter say it is a festive movie.

• Alex's Weekly Film Blog - 10th October

  I find myself at odds with most reviews I've read of Joker: Folie a Deux, as I thoroughly enjoyed it. As the latest edition of The Rest Is Entertainment points out, musicals are very difficult to market. Wonka and Mean Girls are recent examples of musicals where it was pretty well concealed in the trailers, until you went to see them and realised everyone was, er, singing.

• Alex's Weekly Film Blog - 3rd October

  It's almost impossible to review The Substance without spoilers, but I'll try. It's grisly, bone-crunching, shockingly gory stuff, but what a performance from Demi Moore. This is possibly the most bananas movie I've ever seen, and Moore's finest hour in my book.

• Alex's Weekly Film Blog - 26th September

  It's a rarity, but a trio of films were all released last Friday that I couldn't wait to see. I've managed two of them this week, and both are outstanding.

• Alex's Weekly Film Blog - 19th September

  Starting this week with my film of the month for September. Strange Darling is grisly and twisty as hell The best review I've seen comes from rapper Kid Cudi, who wrote: "Movies like this come every so often. As a fan of horror, I've never been this thrown by a horror movie before. I went in thinking one thing, and left knowing another". The difficulty in reviewing this movie is that it's definitely best enjoyed without spoilers. It's gory, tense, and nerve shredding.