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’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 - Thursday 9th October 2025

  World Smile Day was invented by Harvey Ball back in 1999. Whilst he might not be a household name, he does have a pretty cool claim to fame ; Harvey invented the yellow smiley face back in 1963, and by the late 90s, he was concerned that his design had become heavily commercialised. To try and reclaim the original message of good cheer, along came World Smile Day, with the official slogan: "Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile".

• Alex Cann’s weekly film blog - Thursday 9th October 2025

  If you found yourself in a life or death situation, you could do far worse than calling on Barb (Emma Thompson) to help in the icy delight Dead of Winter. Barb is heading out in a snowstorm to go fishing on a frozen lake, and stops to ask for directions. A few things don't seem right, but she ploughs on, despite the drips of blood visible in the snow...

• Alex B. Cann column - Thursday 2nd October 2025

  We are well and truly into autumn, and it’s definitely my favourite season.

• 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 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 - Thursday 2nd October 2025

  It’s James Bond Day on 5th October, and I’m rather excited about watching Goldeneye again on the big screen next week. The Tina Turner theme song is an underrated ‘90s banger, and I think you could make a solid case for Pierce Brosnan being the best 007.

• 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.

• Alex's Weekly Film Blog - 12th September

  I decided to catch up on the original Beetlejuice last week, and realised I'd somehow never seen it! A shocking omission, I confess, but I really enjoyed the 1988 classic. You can find it on Amazon Prime Video.