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The advert for candidates seeking to replace Adrian Van Klaveren as Controller Radio 5 Live is out.

Adrian got his fingers burned "helping out" in news in October last year; he was parachuted back to TV Centre to provide extra editorial cover, during the dual-running solution which flowed from the Newsnight/Savile hoo-ha. Days into his tenure, Newsnight wanted to run a film about a North Wales children's home  - and a man who wrongly said he'd been abused by Lord McAlpine. Now Adrian is making his way as an executive producer in Vision, prepping for World War 1 anniversary coverage.

The last hoo-ha for Adrian was his home address, in Hampshire; he was anointed, by Jenny Abramsky, as Controller 5 Live ahead of the network's move to Salford, and on appointment said "I'm really excited about leading the station to its new home". Leading, it was later revealed, but not always there round-the-clock. In the last financial year, he was reimbursed over £15k for accommodation costs, on top of a pay package of £193k.

So does the new advert seek an explicit location commitment from a successor ? "Based in Salford" is as far as it goes. This may not be a problem; the acting Controller, Jonathan Wall, lives in Knutsford, and seems to be in pole position for the permanent gig.