At first glance Ivan Brackenbury's hospital DJ came from the same camp as Al Murray's Pub Landlord and Steve Coogan's Alan Partridge.

He was a misguided, enthusiastic character you would probably cross the street to avoid in real life, trying his best to entertain his listeners in his Disease Hour slot.

With his hastily cobbled together jingles, shamelessly stolen from Radio 1, and his inappropriate music requests, he was a lovable incompetent, armed only with his malfunctioning laptop and mic.

Among the requests, which frequently veered over the boundaries of good taste, were spins of Coldplay's Yellow for a jaundice sufferer, Van Halen's Jump for a depressed man on the hospital's 14th floor and a burst of the Ski Sunday theme for a young lad paralysed on the slopes. On top of those were a long-running gag about a telephone wind-up and several rounds of a roadshow-style quiz with the same hapless contestant who had the misfortune to sit in the front row.

Unfortunately, despite initially looking like a fame-seeking Northern character to rival the great John Shuttleworth, Ivan's show began to descend into a string of hospital-themed one-liners. We learnt little about the baseball-capped character behind the mic that could have added a bit of depth to the show.

That said, Ivan's advert for a £1.50-a-minute chatline for stutterers and his cheeky delight in discovering a hospital superbug sufferer had "spent the night in bed with Mrs A" were worth the entrance fee alone.