in 2012. After 9/11, where he reported for BBC News, and while taking a sabbatical, Sharp and his wife fell in love with the fishing town of Marblehead, Massachusetts, in the United States. From 2004 to 2020, he presented the show (Monday to Wednesday) from the town. Initially using the studios and ISDN line of local radio station WESX. From 2007, he presented the show from a home studio within the couple's 18th-century house in Marblehead's Old Town section. Broadcasting from the United States made Sharp "pretty unique" among BBC radio hosts, according to former BBC deputy news director Stephen Mitchell. Features The show had a heavy interest in the United States, partly due to the favourable time differences between North America and the UK, and often featured news and interviews from there. The Super Bowl was also broadcast in an extended programme for some years. The programme launched a couple of Twitter pages and has a group on Facebook. Some elements of the show were available to download by podcast. Namely; Game On (under the Let's Talk About Tech thread), World Football Phone-In and Dr Karl. Regular features The programme gained a cult audience because of its off-beat approach to the news combined with various regular features. These included - Monday: The Phone-in, topics have included gardening, parenting and DIY. Tuesday: Game On, video game culture explored. This is the BBC's oldest games focused strand and has been produced in its current form since 2008. Wednesday: East Coast / West Coast: a regular look at US news and culture from either Los Angeles or New York. Thursday: Science questions to Dr Karl who joined the show from the Australian ABC network. Friday: The North American Sports Show, the first edition was broadcast in September 2018. Saturday: World Football Phone-In, with journalists Tim Vickery (South America), Mina Rzouki (Europe), Jon Arnold (Central and North America), Mark Meadows (Europe), Paul Sarahs (Europe), John Duerden (Asia) and Mark Gleeson (Africa) covering some of the world's football hotbeds. Sunday: The Virtual Jukebox, where callers suggested and then voted on a music track to be added to a growing list of tunes. A playlist is available on Spotify For many years from the beginning of the programme the film critic, Dave Aldridge was a weekly contributor. In 2007 the programme pioneered a monthly live mental health phone-in with regular guest, Martin Seager, Consultant Clinical