Antoine de Caunes, presenter
In the late 80s, I was presenting a French music show called Rapido and Janet Street-Porter [then BBC2’s head of youth and entertainment] happened to see it. She said, “I want that on the BBC”, which was already kind of weird. A French guy to host a UK rock show, are you kidding? It was like asking a British chef to host a French cuisine programme. When Rapido came to an end after a few seasons, producer Peter Stuart and I were asked to pitch a weekly magazine show. Peter came up with Eurotrash, which was an attempt to reconcile Brits with the rest of Europe. We failed in that mission, I noticed!
