"TV PICK OF THE DAY: Brass Eye Special. Any new material from Chris Morris is always welcome..." This was how the Daily Mail's Femail website announced the most controversial single television programme of the last year. Within 24 hours, they'd changed their mind somewhat. Brass Eye creator Chris Morris suddenly became public enemy number one, condemned as sick by tabloid after tabloid, doorstepped by the Mail and challenged to 'defend' his satire. But who is Morris? And how did he move from cult humorist to most hated man in Britain?

He started at BBC Radio Bristol in 1987, where he hosted a show called No Known Cure.