Articles tagged Radio:
Meeting Sir David Attenborough
- 18 Feb 2013
One of the great things about doing my job at LBC is that I get to meet and interview some of my all time heros. Today was one such day. Of course the challenge when interviewing them is not to go all gooey and just indulge in half an hour of fan worship. I always try to remem...
An Encounter with Anjem Choudary
- 17 Feb 2013
This morning The Sun did what the News of the World used to do. It had a front page piece of proper investigative journalism. which exposed the radical cleric Anjem Choudary as a thoroughly nasty piece of work. They taped a three hour lecture in which he called Cameron and Oba...
Tomorrow on my Sunday Morning LBC Politics Show
- 19 Jan 2013
This is what we have lined up for you tomorrow morning between 10am and 1pm on my LBC Sunday Politics Show. 10am Algeria/Mali. Guests include former Foreign Secretary Lord Owen. 11am Adoptions are lower than ever despite attempts to make adoption easier. Guest from Barnardo...
Best of This Week on my LBC Show
- 18 Jan 2013
Every Friday on the blog I’m going to provide a few links to some of the interviews I have done over the previous seven days on my LBC show. Here are this week’s offerings. Book Club hour with Big Issue founder John Bird, talking about his book THE NECESSITY OF POVERTY and Ju...
Ignorance About Transsexualism Breeds Fear
- 15 Jan 2013
I was astonished to learn just before my programme went on air last night that The Observer had deleted Julie Burchill’s article (see previous post) from its website. Whatever one thought about it, it didn’t deserve that fate. By doing that The Observer has not only made a foo...
Call Clegg - Did It Work?
- 10 Jan 2013
If you missed Call Clegg on LBC 97.3 this morning, I’m going to repeat it from 7pm on my evening show Those of you who don’t listen to talk radio much may well wonder what all the fuss is about. But for a Deputy Prime Minister to commit to doing a half hour radio phone in eve...
Sunday Morning From 10am...
- 5 Jan 2013
A new feature on this blog will go live tomorrow at 9.59am. Instead of the book banner above, you’ll see a banner which tells you what is on my LBC show and a LISTEN LIVE button, so you can read the blog and listen to me live. For those of you who don’t know I present a radio...
The Cruelty of Families
- 30 Dec 2012
Christmas can be a very lonely time, especially for the elderly. I hear time and time again on my radio show of people whose families just aren’t there for them. They’re too busy with their own lives to worry about their elderly parents, let alone visit them. I just don’t unde...
Why Mental Health Has Become Important To Me
- 13 Sep 2012
Mental health remains a subject most people find difficult to talk about. Unless they are affected by it, it’s not something talked about in polite society. Or they are bored by it. I’ve never suffered from depression, or any other form of mental condition, so I have slightly ...
And in a Packed Programme This Morning...
- 1 Apr 2012
Starting a new radio show is always a bit daunting, even when you’ve been doing one for a year and a half. Doubly so when you are taking over a slot previously inhabited by two friends. This morning I broadcast my first show in the 10am-1pm slot on LBC 97.3, having taken over ...