After a few undistinguished months ofReading Aloud on the Six O'Clock News, he became a presenter in the mid-80s, working first on the regional news programme London Plus (known within the building as "Sod Off Kent") and then on the BBC's Breakfast Time.
With an increase in e-mail reading via the phone comes an increase in reading e-mails around the clock (and likely an increase in the number of e-mails sent and received, as well).