During Morris' brief time at BBC Radio Bristol, he decided it would be a fine wheeze to pump a little helium gas into the studio during the news bulletin that followed his show.

The story has since Chinese-Whispered its way around the internet (one source claims the newscaster had to struggle with a Smurfy voice during the reporting of a fatal train-crash).

The reality, as confirmed by the show's producer in the above video, is more prosaic: the helium-vocal effect didn't kick in until the end-of-news weather ("We seem to have some problems with a few balloons").

Schoolboy stuff, then. But he was just limbering up...