Articles tagged It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter:
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 33: Being Muted And Then Shouted at By George Galloway
- 14 Aug 2015
I suppose this is rather more accurately titled ‘It Shouldn’t Happen to a Guest on George Galloway’s Radio Show’. Back in 2010 I was invited to appear on George Galloway’s talkSport show, which I had always enjoyed listening to. You never quite knew what was going to happe...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 32: Getting Something New Out of an Interviewee Who's Been on Every BBC Outlet Going
- 7 Aug 2015
Earlier today I did a 25 minute interview with Camila Batmangehlidh from Kid’s Company. We covered a lot of ground. It was one of those interviews where as an interviewer you know you’re going to struggle to cover anything new, as she had been all over the BBC for most of ...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 31: When People Say Presenting a Radio Show is a Piece of P***...
- 1 Aug 2015
I’ve lost count of the times people say to me: “God, I wish I had a job as easy as yours. I mean, you just sit there and talk, which is what you love doing anyway.” Oh if only they knew. Yes of course, if you’re a talk radio host you like talking and hearing the sound of your ...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 30: Hosting a Labour Party Leadership Hustings
- 25 Jul 2015
A few people have asked what it was like hosting the Labour Leadership hustings debate and how I prepared for it, so I thought I’d jot down a few notes about what happened both in the runup to and at our live 90 minute debate on Wednesday. I have seen several of the other h...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 29: When a Caller Says Jews Should Get Over the Holocaust
- 15 Jul 2015
It’s not often I shout at a caller or stun them into silence, but that is what happened tonight on LBC. I was conducting a phone-in about the 94 year old Auschwitz guard who was sentenced to four years in prison today in a court in the German town of Lueneburg. I started off b...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 28: Should You Ever Disagree With a Fellow Presenter On Air?
- 9 Jul 2015
Earlier today my LBC colleague James O’Brien discussed the Tube strike on his morning show. He launched an impassioned defence of the strikers and an attack on employers. I could hardly believe what I was hearing, so I thought I’d take him to task on my Drivetime show. He are ...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 27: Getting Off To a Good Start on Election Night
- 9 May 2015
Listeners and viewers have a lot of choice on election night, so it’s important to get off to a flying start. We decided to start our show at 9.55 and build up to 10pm when we would get the exit poll flashed onto our screens. I was co-presenting with Sheila Fogarty for the...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 26: Reviewing the New Jon Gaunt Podcast
- 2 May 2015
What any radio presenter needs is ‘stickability’. You need to give the audience a reason to stick with you rather than twiddle the knob and tune into a different station. In commercial radio that’s doubly important, as the presenter isn’t in total control of that because of th...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 25: Breaking the Official Secrets Act & Protecting an Interviewee
- 18 Apr 2015
Back in November I wrote about a phone-in we did on the Vishal Mehrotra case. Vishal’s dismembered body was found in 1981 and he had been a victim of terrible sexual abuse. Towards the end of the hour our collective mouths were left gaping open when we had two calls from ex-po...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 24: Hosting an Election Debate
- 10 Apr 2015
Last night’s LBC Women Leaders’ Debate debate took a lot of planning. It all started back in February when my producer Jagruti Dave sidled up to me and said ’wouldn’t it be a good idea to do a women’s debate during the general election campaign’, seeing as all the other debate...