Articles tagged Radio:
LBC 97.3 Drive: This Is What We Do...
- 10 Jul 2013
if you’ve never listened to my radio show, have a quick listen to these three audioboos from yesterday’s show. Because this is what we do… (And if you listen to only one, make it the last one. Especially if you want to know how I can be ‘cured’ of being gay!) listen to ‘Far l...
Winning Radio Presenter of the Year - Who'd Have Thought?!
- 4 Jul 2013
I’ll try to keep this short. Last night at the Arqiva Awards I won Radio Presenter of the Year. That has to rate as one of the proudest moments of my life. I was up against Real Radio’s Dixie & Gayle and Absolute’s Frank Skinner. To be acknowledged like that by your peers...
James Purnell Can't Justify His Salary or the BBC's Move to Salford
- 2 Jul 2013
listen to ‘'Are you really worth twice as much as a Cabinet Minister?' – Iain Dale to the BBC's James Purnell’ on Audioboo Have a listen to this from an interview I did yesterday with James Purnell, the former cabinet minister and now the Director of Strategy and Digital at ...
Discussing Mental Health on the Radio
- 30 Jun 2013
Since I have been presenting on LBC (nearly three years, since you ask) one of the subjects I have covered a lot is mental health. Last year the programme was shortlisted for the Mind Media Awards for best radio programme. We didn’t win. but were delighted to attend such an ...
ConservativeHome Diary Week 12: Osborne & Cameron Don't Care About Marriage Tax Breaks. Good
- 28 Jun 2013
Digby Jones is someone who knows how to give ‘good interview’. I talked to him about deficit reduction shortly after George Osborne had sat down on Wednesday. He was keen to emphasise that ringfencing health, education and aid spending was fundamentally wrong, especially healt...
Coping With a Downs Syndrome Child
- 8 Jun 2013
Last night on my LBC show we spent an hour discussing how parents cope with a Downs Syndrome child. There’s a new blood test which apparently is 98.5% accurate in detecting Downs in a foetus. I asked people to phone in and tell us how they reacted when told their child had Dow...
ConservativeHome Diary Week 8: So, Vince Cable Has a Point!
- 31 May 2013
So Vince Cable is at it again – criticising the very government he is a member of. This time, it’s about immigration policy. He thinks that public concerns over immigration have been fanned by the promise of an immigration cap. He also points out that we are losing the fees o...
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...