Radio review: Jameela Jamil's Official Chart Show (Radio 1), and last week's highlights Jameela Jamil is a very pretty young woman who made broadcasting history on Sunday afternoon, becoming the first female presenter of Radio 1"s Official Chart Show in all its nearly 50 years and various incarnations. How do I know she is very pretty? Because she is in vision for the show's final hour, as was her predecessor last year, Reggie Yates. Back then he wore a remarkable jumper. She wore a white furry hood with ears and long lapels, which went nicely with her polka-dotted dark tights. At least, I think they were polka-dotted but it might have been the curious pixelation which kept making her face blur in a sort of visual equivalent of the hiss, fade and crackle of old Medium Wave. Jameela sounds girly but she's gutsy, revealing she once slipped in a puddle when interviewing Olly Murs, broke a front tooth, cracked several ribs and carried on broadcasting for nine hours because there was no one to take over. And she stuck her tooth back in with nail adhesive, too. On Sunday, sporting a sparkly beauty spot close to her beautifully linered left eye, she avoided such risks, asking Emeli Sandé who was her dream cuddle, saying she couldn't believe her luck in introducing David Bowie's video, Where Are We Now? It's number six, by the way. Scream and Shout by Will.i.am with Britney Spears is number one. The only way to understand either, I now realise, is visually. At 7.00pm Jameela ceded the airwaves to Dan and Phil. Dan and Phil are "YouTube Sensations." They talk to camera, play videos (professional and amateur) of listeners" requests in a manner reminiscent of that film Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure with Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter. As that came out in 1989 when Dan and Phil were probably only a twinkle in their parents" eyes it's probably just a coincidence. Or an homage. A highlight of their first hour was a video parody (or was it an homage?) called Clique, in which Nick Grimshaw and other Radio 1 personalities drove about in cars and gestured wildly. Grimshaw wore a white furry jacket. I am pretty sure that was ironic. Call Clegg (LBC, Thursday) also made broadcasting history, this being the first time a serving Cabinet Minister has made a regular weekly commitment to a live phone-in show. What's in it for Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg? A space of his own on the airwaves. What's in it for LBC? A way of showing it is a now national station, available via digital radio and online, far beyond its allotted FM frequency. It got massive publicity. I will definitely listen again. Because Nick Ferrari, into whose breakfast show this is an insert, steers it with unobtrusive skill, directs the limelight onto the callers" questions and will, I bet, teach Clegg a lesson or two in simple, practical communication. A Tale of Two Villages (Radio 4, Tuesday) was about Grimethorpe and Thurnscoe, two places that lost their principal reasons for existence when their pits closed 20 years ago. Grimethorpe has reinvented itself. Thurnscoe hasn't managed it yet. Mark Hodkinson and producer Sally Chesworth let the stories of both unfold mostly through the words of people who live there, have seen what's happened. At first: no work, no prospects for school leavers, high levels of crime and drug use, no hope. In Grimethorpe people found the will to fight back, stand up for each other. They also had local authority help, to build roads, bring in new businesses, regenerate. Twenty miles away in Thurnscoe the investment has been in affordable housing and a Country Park. But who wants to live where it needs two buses to get you to the nearest hospital? Who visits a Country Park in a dying community? Good questions. Where Did All the Comrades Go? (Radio 4, yesterday) answered its own question unexpectedly: New Labour. Max Cotton's adventure trail through ideological transitions was deftly plotted, briskly told, firmly documented. When old-style Soviet Communism died in Britain in 1991, party members looked to Italy for workable neo-Marxist models. Finance came through old Communist property holdings. The effect was to engender think-tanks, Demos, for one and the forging of links with New Labour, which brought writers for Marxism Today into the very heart of Blairite politics. No wonder it all fell apart.