LBC Chit Chat #11

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The Big One said:
EXCLUSIVE October 8 1973 LBC started broadcasting. October 8 2023 it will be 50 years old (although not the original LBC !).

From the Head of Global Customer Support (he hands out trouser braces!!) " The LBC team are working behinds the scenes to celebrate LBC at 50! Stay tuned listening to LBC and keep an eye on the website at lbc.co.uk for the latest news. "
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Blimey! Doesn't seem that long ago that we all going on about LBC celebrating being 40. At least Steve Allen was still there then.
 
Ndrangheta said:
i tuned in for PMQ's and there was a caller who seemed to be stuttering and unsure of himself and James piled straight-in: "Have you rung-in by mistake? You seem confused" ...

"No," came the timid reply, "I'm just very nervous, I've never called before".

duck me James is a bleep. I think the bloke was actually trying to agree with him aswell ... about, ironically, the police being told not to be 'nice'. I just clicked-off at that point.
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Steve Allen is still broadcasting from LBC in the early hours. His presence lives on through Ian Payne.

1) Nickname for the producers ✔
2) Bring in cake from Pret for The Boy Band ✔
3) Mention Hinge & Bracket ✔
4) Make offensive remark about being blonde ✔

I'm starting to like Ian Payne. I think he's got the balance right. Bit of lighthearted stuff at the beginning then gradually getting more serious till NF.
 
FenellaTheWitch said:
Steve Allen is still broadcasting from LBC in the early hours. His presence lives on through Ian Payne.

1) Nickname for the producers ✔
2) Bring in cake from Pret for The Boy Band ✔
3) Mention Hinge & Bracket ✔
4) Make offensive remark about being blonde ✔

I'm starting to like Ian Payne. I think he's got the balance right. Bit of lighthearted stuff at the beginning then gradually getting more serious till NF.
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It would be interesting to know how their listening figures compare. I've always thought that the 'spike' owed a lot to people switching on for the news and traffic, which they probably still do.
 
Ndrangheta said:
i tuned in for PMQ's and there was a caller who seemed to be stuttering and unsure of himself and James piled straight-in: "Have you rung-in by mistake? You seem confused" ...

"No," came the timid reply, "I'm just very nervous, I've never called before".

duck me James is a bleep. I think the bloke was actually trying to agree with him aswell ... about, ironically, the police being told not to be 'nice'. I just clicked-off at that point.
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James can be so crappy at times with callers. I've heard him behave like that before. It's a really nasty trait of his. LBC try to encourage new callers but with broadcasters like James I can see why people are put off.
 
Maggie Moggy said:
Jobby: 'Ooh, we like Carol Vorderman.'

Me and (I'm guessing) a lot of listeners: 'Speak for yourself, mate.'

Clicky off.
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Oh God! Now he's going to tell us that Theresa May wasn't all that bad as PM. Any excuse to drone on about Brexit.
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FenellaTheWitch said:
James can be so crappy at times with callers. I've heard him behave like that before. It's a really nasty trait of his. LBC try to encourage new callers but with broadcasters like James I can see why people are put off.
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Ian P. always encourages callers to phone in again.
 
Maggie Moggy said:
Oh God! Now he's going to tell us that Theresa May wasn't all that bad as PM. Any excuse to drone on about Brexit.
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Ian P. always encourages callers to phone in again.
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Comparing her to Johnson, Truss and Sunak, she wasn't. She did have more integrity and there would not have been parties at No 10 during Covid. However she was a shocking Home Secretary and the decline in the emergency services, especially the police, all started under her and Tom Winsor. She was told time and time again what would happen and it has.

She must one of very few ex PM's who went back to the back benches and stayed there.
 
The man is a broken record, a one-trick head.
Claims to be a serious current affairs broadcaster, but if he was he'd be talking about current events like Kim Jong's armoured train trundling into Russia to agree to supplying weapons to Putin...you know.... stuff that is going to affect the world.
There's an axis developing with Russia, North Korea, Iran, China etc.
He thinks talking about Theresa May's legacy is important, the mind boggles.
 
I actually listened for the first hour today (off for a shower in a minute). Nothing more predictable than at 11am him announcing that he feels even less favourably disposed to her than he did at 10am. Numerous plugs of his own book and podcasts (I'm doing the audio reading today you know). It's all an act and people fall for it
 
Bobby Chariot said:
The man is a broken record, a one-trick head.
Claims to be a serious current affairs broadcaster, but if he was he'd be talking about current events like Kim Jong's armoured train trundling into Russia to agree to supplying weapons to Putin...you know.... stuff that is going to affect the world.
There's an axis developing with Russia, North Korea, Iran, China etc.
He thinks talking about Theresa May's legacy is important, the mind boggles.
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The problem for James is that so much he has claimed has gone wrong.

He is usually keen on the Financial Times but even it has a mention today of industry relocating from Germany to Brexit Britain.

Even Faisal Islam of the BBC is talking about the German car industry being in trouble.

Remember he "humiliated" a caller about Airbus leaving the UK.

That's why he is living in the past....
 
FenellaTheWitch said:
Comparing her to Johnson, Truss and Sunak, she wasn't. She did have more integrity and there would not have been parties at No 10 during Covid. However she was a shocking Home Secretary and the decline in the emergency services, especially the police, all started under her and Tom Winsor. She was told time and time again what would happen and it has.

She must one of very few ex PM's who went back to the back benches and stayed there.
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She reminds me of Ted Heath, who spent 25 years scowling from the back benches at his successors. He was dubbed the Incredible Sulk.
 
There's a lot that hasn't been said/revealed about this" innocent menstruating child". Jobbie of course was in his element with the racism angle. I wonder whether his own privately educated daughters would ever have had experience of police intervention at their school?
 
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