While taking part in BBC Radio Cymru's weekly radio show, Dau o'r Bae, on 13 June 2008, Cairns was asked to apologise on air, and immediately did so, for referring to Italians as 'greasy wops'.
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He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 2's Pause for Thought, as well as to programmes on BBC Radio Cymru and BBC Radio Wales.