LIKE tea, coffee and those yummy new Rolo biscuits, Radio 2 is one of the little joys of working at home. There’s Popmaster in the morning, Jeremy Vine and his loons at noon and Ask Elvis, which should be licensed by the NICE committee as an instant cure for depression.

Lately, though, I’ve become slightly obsessed by Chris Evans’ Top Tenuous. For the uninitiated, it’s where listeners text in with the most tenuous link they have to a celebrity or a situation; whether it’s the chap whose auntie served Jose Mourinho with a snack on a visit to London, or the lady who, on being told the man she was talking to was a David Beckham lookalike, made a complete fool of herself before she realised it actually WAS David Beckham.

If you’re already wondering what I’m on about it’s obviously not going to work, so you should retune to the Home Service or flick through to the TV listings now.

But if you are interested in these surreal diversions, here are a few to get you going…

1. When I was asked to work in Poole’s Royal Mail sorting office for a Christmas feature, one of the letters I handled was addressed to Sir Bruce Forsyth.

2. My mum’s friend owned a pram which used to belong to the children of Charlie Chaplin.

3. Journalist Kate Adie was three people ahead of me in the border control queue following our flight home from Greece. Her luggage came off the carousel quicker, too.

4. My Auntie Betty – who wasn’t really my auntie but my granny’s best friend who we had to call auntie because that’s what you did in the early 1970s – lived next-door to the ex-sultan of Zanzibar. 5. My Grandpa saw playwright George Bernard Shaw walking down the Strand in London. He was too scared to go up and talk to him.

6. On a Thomas the Tank engine day during the 1990s, my son and the child of comedian Hugh Dennis nearly sat in the same carriage.

7. My sister’s colleague saw Robert Redford eating an ice-cream in the store where she was buying one for herself. He kept looking at her and smiling so she smiled back. Only later did she realise she’d dropped her ice-cream down her front.

8. My mum once went on a date with jazzman Acker Bilk.

9. My son’s girlfriend’s relative designed ties for King Edward VIII.

10. My dad played in a football match in which one of his opponents was Jimmy Greaves. Greaves’s team won.

11. Jimmy Savile waved his cigar at me and my brother and sister as he sped past us in his Rolls Royce in 1976 when we were on our way to Yorkshire for our holiday. We were in an Austin 1100.

12. A neighbour of mine claims the wooden floor in his sitting room came from the now-demolished Dorset mansion of 1950s socialite Lady Norah Docker.

13. My mate Nick once served Princess Diana’s mother with a plate of salad.

14. My husband auditioned for the pop group which went on to become the ’70s glam-rock sensation, Wizard. He told them he couldn’t go on tour with them to Germany because he had to do his O’ levels.

15. My friend’s brother was summoned to London to talk to a mystery client about selling him a London taxi. The client turned out to be the Duke of Edinburgh.

16. My granddad was stuck in the same prisoner of war camp as the flying ace Sir Douglas Bader. Granddad described the disabled hero as ‘a nuisance’ because his escape plans always clashed with everyone else’s.

17. My son’s friend’s father once acted as the solicitor for the late Monkee, Davy Jones.

18. My sister was pushed off her bike in Washington DC by the security guards for President George Bush Snr. He didn’t wave as he drove by.

19. My former boss’s mother-in-law once dated the actor Oliver Reed. She described the hell-raising star as ‘well-behaved’.

20. My best friend Sarah had a friend who claimed that Princess Anne named her daughter after his sister.