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 B Cann column - Thursday 6th November 2025

  It's been another week of pretty bleak news, and whilst it's always tempting to use this column to vent my spleen, I thought we'd indulge in a little chillout time instead. When it comes to relaxing, research commissioned by Bahlsen has come up with a top ten countdown, charting the best ways to switch off from the treadmill of life. Here they are in full.5021]

• Alex B Cann column - Thursday 30th October 2025

  A tweet from actor Reece Dinsdale this week asked "where does 'wrong and ugly' end and racist begin"? This was inspired by the dreadful viral clip of Reform UK Ltd MP Sarah Pochin, responding to a caller on one of those seldom watched new  rolling TV news hannels, who was bemoaning the state of telly adverts.

• Alex Cann’s weekly blog - Thursday 23rd October 2025

  I remember my first date with Sofia very well. It was back in the mists of time (well, January 2010!), and although the chain restaurant I chose turned out to be pretty underwhelming, as did the film (Did You Hear About The Morgans, 12% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes), the date went pretty well! Reviews of my movie choice point out the lack of chemistry between its leading stars, and one critic sums it up perfectly as "a meandering and thoroughly conventional rom com". We've been married now for over 13 years, so thankfully my choices didn't scupper things.

• Alex Cann’s weekly blog - Thursday 16th October 2025

  If you've been to the supermarket recently, you won't have failed to notice the soaring price of everyday items. British grocery inflation rose to 5.2% in the month to October 5th, according to industry data released earlier this week, which is only adding to pressure being heaped on consumers by higher energy bills.

• 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 B Cann film column - Thursday 6th November 2025

  1985 was a vintage year for movies, with Beverley Hills Cop, A View To A Kill, and of course Back To The Future, which I watched on the IMAX screen in Ashton this week with a friend who has somehow never seen this classic before! I was rather envious of him, watching the time travel escapade for the first time. The special effects have aged jawdroppingly well, and my favourite fact is that Christopher Lloyd was just 46 when he played the eccentric Doc Brown.

• Alex B Cann film column - Thursday 30th October 2025

  The Woman In Cabin 10 (Netflix) has racked up well over 30 million views on the streaming platform at the time of writing. Keira Knightley told Fabulous magazine that she loves a good thriller, and author Ruth Ware certainly wrote a cracking page-turner, which inspired this mildly enjoyable film. It also stars Ted Lasso's Hannah Waddingham and LA Confidential's Guy Pearce (Mike from Neighbours!). As Knightley's Guardian journalist character says, "people are capable of appalling things". Her premonition comes true, as she witnesses a woman being thrown overboard from a luxury liner that she

• Alex Cann’s weekly film blog - Thursday 23rd October 2025

  I've only watched one film this week, as I've had a few days off, and I have to be honest, it was pretty underwhelming. After The Hunt promised much, with a star-studded cast including Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield, but it was badly scripted, disjointed, frustratingly oblique at times, and full of characters you didn't care about or believe in. It wasn't the worst film I've seen this year on the big screen, but it was definitely in the bottom quarter.

• Alex Cann’s weekly film blog - Thursday 16th October 2025

  This week, me and Mrs C took a trip to the Penistone Paramount, which is a real cinematic gem. Friendly staff, a characterful building that dates back over 100 years, and even an intermission to grab a tipple! Along with the Parkway in Barnsley and the Rex in Elland, it's one of my favourite hidden cinema gems. Mike Wallbank tells me Tameside's towns had many indie cinemas back in the day, and it will be great to see Ashton's Metro Majestic reopening in due course.

• 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.