Alan Bleasdale was quoted in the Liverpool Echo (12th February 1983) as saying he had the intention of being deliberately uninteresting on the show: "'I'm seriously toying with the idea of setting out to bore ten million people to death on Wogan tonight', says Alan Bleasdale, who, thanks to Yosser, is finding himself in constant demand on chat shows these days. 'The trouble is, if I do it well, I'll just get more people ringing up'. Personally I've a sneaking feeling he loves it. And he's promising to tell a few real Liverpool stories tonight. "