Dr Dickerson also won the Offer You Can't Refuse Prize at the RES when his views on corporate takeovers so interested one radio station that they invited him to get up at 5.45 am to talk to their breakfast business programme. There have been academic conferences where the best way to be up at that time would be to add an hour or so to the previous evening's after-dinner session but the RES is a little more sedate. Resisting the temptation to suggest that they ring his Doppelganger, he managed to persuade them to pre-record his views.