Articles tagged It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter:
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 13: "Should You Have Gone to Specsavers, Prime Minister?"
- 12 Sep 2013
Here’s the interview I did for my LBC Drivetime show today with the Prime Minister – who, before we went on air, urged me to blog more! Anyway, we covered the new scheme he was launching today to encourage new business start-ups, the row with Jose Manuel Barrosso (he expre...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 12: When a Minister Won't Answer the Question...
- 9 Sep 2013
listen to ‘That awkward moment when a politician cant answer a simple question!’ on Audioboo This evening I interviewed Treasury Minister Sajid Javid about the state of the economy. He pulled me up on an economic statistic I gave, so when he tried to pull the wool over my ...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 11: Interviewing Badly Briefed MPs
- 30 Jul 2013
It’s never a good idea to issue a spur of the moment press release as inevitable you will live to regret it. That’s what happened to Labour MP Barry Gardiner today. In the prep for our show on LBC today, we noticed a tweet from a Labour council candidate, Matthew Kercher. It r...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter: No 10 - Freebies
- 24 May 2013
Back in the hey-day of music radio, when men were men and children should have been very afraid, I’m told that virtually every day radio presenters would be sent loads of freebies. Free clothes, free food, free whatever. Those days are long gone, and rightly so. But we present...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter: No 9 - Handling Breaking News of a Potential Terror Incident
- 22 May 2013
I’m writing this forty five minutes after coming off air from possibly the most challenging four hours of radio I am ever likely to be faced with. So forgive me if this is at all rambling or disjointed. Sometime after 3pm this afternoon our Classic FM newsreader came over t...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter: No 8 - Interviewing at Short Notice: Tia Sharp's Grandmother
- 16 May 2013
“Can you get here in 30 minutes. You’re doing an interview with Tia Sharp’s Grandmother and stepdad.” This phone call from my LBC producer came the day after Stuart Hazell, Tia’s Grandmother’s ex-partner had been sent to prison for 38 years for Tia’s brutal murder. They hadn’t...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter: No 7 - Beware of Breaking News on Twitter
- 23 Apr 2013
I love a breaking news story. The adrenaline flows. You never know what’s going to happen next. It’s the biggest challenge a talk radio presenter can face – especially when it concerns a subject you have less than a passing acquaintance with. One thing is for sure, as a radio ...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter: No 6 - Reluctant Guests
- 9 Apr 2013
I’m afraid I indulged in a bit of Twitter bullying this evening. There’s nothing I hate more than some idiot know-it-all PR idiot being rude to one the team who produce my Drivetime show. In our first hour tonight we covered the resignation of the Kent Youth Police & Crime...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter: No 5 - Turbulent Priests
- 11 Mar 2013
And yes it’s true, I did say it. As someone tweeted… Not many people can claim to have said that on their first day in a new job. Good work! Hey ho. At least it gave people a laugh, I suppose. I thought I had rescued it and corrected myself having only said the ‘cu’ ...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter: No 4 - Reacting to a Guest Faux Pas
- 27 Feb 2013
This afternoon I recorded an interview with best selling author Barbara Taylor-Bradford, which we’ll be putting out on next Thursday’s LBC Book Club programme. So as a well trained radio presenter, I thought I would trail it at the end of my programme tonight. With me in the s...