Dave Fanning: ‘Would I have rather stayed doing The Movie Show? Yes. Would I rather have stayed on 2FM? Yes. Would I rather have done that programme on Radio 1? Yes’

Dave Fanning has just turned 70. “Did I?” he asks with that cat-who-got-the-cream grin he sports most of the time. “Where did you read that? Wikipedia?” You told me on the phone last week. “I could have been lying.”