Radio head: Sunday-morning shows

It was The Commodores who sagely described easy as being "like Sunday morning". And that's how I like my radio on Sundays: easy-going programmes you can dip in and out of around chat, snoozing and the papers. Saturday, when the mornings are busier, it's Jonathan Ross (Radio 2) while it lasts; I loved his account last week of dealing with octopus carpaccio in a swanky fish restaurant. But Sunday mornings are all of a sudden caught in a comedy tussle. The best news is that Christian O'Connell's The Solution – a show so forced and unfunny I used to stare, disbelieving, at the radio – has departed, replaced by Chris Addison's 7 Day Sunday (5 Live, from 11am). It's an hour of quips about the headlines or, as Addison put it: "God said, let there be a radio programme in which four idiots are facetious about the week's news." It's really quite funny, and comprehensive in its sweep of topics. Venezuela's President Chavez was deemed "fantastically leftfield"; Italian television was described as being mostly "prank-based"; and postmen and women, we were informed, "excrete red rubber bands" when nervous. You sort of have to be there, listening intently, to get the four-way chat (with regulars Andy Zaltzman and Sarah Millican plus a weekly guest). It's quite involved: if you lose yourself in the papers for a minute, you will miss hefty chunks. Dave Gorman (Absolute Radio, from 10am) is easier for the multi-tasker, as the gags are more self- contained. I liked his admission that, finding himself in a darts shop in London's East End, he came over all blokey and geezerish, referring to his girlfriend as "my missus" and telling the shop assistant he wanted "something with a bit of heft in the dart" even though he's a total darts novice. "I'm adding 25% bloke to myself," he admitted, recalling the moment with a nicely embarrassed chuckle.