Articles tagged LBC:
Coronavirus: It's About Time Public Health England Stopped Hiding
- 1 Mar 2020
As a radio presenter you often face dilemmas covering controversial subjects. When there's a terror incident, at what point does it become OK to speculate about who perpetrated it? And this week we've faced this question: how do you cover the Coronavirus without scaremongering...
Announcing the 'Iain Dale - The Whole Show' Podcast
- 4 Feb 2020
Back when I started on LBC in 2010 people's listening habits were much less complex than they are today. Very few people listened to podcasts in those days. Most listened to radio on normal linear platforms.There were few online listeners. Ten years on, things have changed dra...
Watch: Iain's Best LBC Moments from 2019 (40 mins)
- 24 Dec 2019
Thanks to Olly McGrath at LBC for putting together this 40 minute long video of my most memorable interviews and calls of 2013 LibDem MEP Lucy Porritt doesn't seem to know anything about the subject of the interview. (October) Emily Thornberry incur...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 71: Coughing Through a General Election Show
- 13 Dec 2019
Watch the full 8 hour show by clicking above Back in March 2010 I had only ever presented one show on LBC. Quite how I had the temerity to suggest that I should present their election night show, I have no idea. Looking back I had quite a cheek. I had presented a E...
Iain Dale & Shelagh Fogarty to Anchor LBC's Election Night Coverage
- 6 Dec 2019
LBC is to broadcast its most extensive election night programme to date next Thursday, when the station simulcasts a fully-integrated results show on air on both radio on FM, DAB and global player, and in HD video on global player and LBC’s digital and social media channels. ...
Election Predictions, Debates, Shows and More...
- 30 Oct 2019
Well, off we go for the first December election since 1923. A governing party has never won a winter election, so if Boris Johnson attains a majority he will have broken a political record. The last winter election was in February 1974 when Ted Heath went to the country asking...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 72: Corpsing
- 19 Oct 2019
We all do it from time to time. Something happens and we just start to laugh uncontrollably. Sophie, my producer unearthed this clip from last year. The context is that around 6.30pm each day, she and I disappear into a recording booth to record a 10 second trail, which is the...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 67: So I'm a Soft Interviewer, Am I?
- 5 May 2019
I've never quite understood why some people continue to think that I am a soft interviewer. It's true that I tend not to shout or get aggressive. It's true that if I get a bit shouty, I do it with a smile, but that does not equate to 'softness'. I prefer to do conversational s...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 66 - Behind the Scenes of an Election Night Show
- 3 May 2019
Click on the above and you can rewatch the entire 6 hour show! Preparing for an presenting a live six hour election night show is probably one of the most complex things that we ever do. There is a tremendous opportunity for things to go wrong. And given we stream the w...
If You're Free on Sunday Mornings for the Next Seven Weeks...
- 13 Apr 2019
"Can I have a word," said James Rea. "Is it going to be another of those 'adult conversations'," I said, smiling? Last time this happened, I discovered I was being moved from Drive to the Evening Show! The long and short of it was that James wondered if I'd be intereste...