LBC Chit Chat #8 Steve Allen has left the building

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Yel said:
They need to get someone fun to do the overnight slot (and weekends quite frankly). Nick abbot is apparently covering it next week.

Steve was just about the only thing still making me tune into lbc. Nick F has his moments now and again but it's very much take it or leave it these days.

Lbc was my number one speach radio, now it's down to number 4 and I rarely go thst far down the list.

If I wanted misery and gloom I'd read the guardian.
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I'm with @no-no ... what else are you listening to?

Anyone tried Times Radio?
 
There's barely any pretence at balance on LBC these days. Top of my head their recent recruitments

Lammy
Devon
Myska
Marr
Kentish
Goodall
Maitlis
Sopel


All clearly tacking left, some to the extremes. I've no doubt when Ferrari gives up, they'll slot someone from that wing into the slot.

Thoughts and prayers with the obsessives elsewhere.
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O'Brien turned up on the Media Show on Radio 4 and tried to make it all about himself by interrogating one of the other guests and ended up with him sneering 'I always insist that people back up their opinions with evidence'

Except you didn't when it comes to someone subsequently convicted as a paedophile, a fantasist and a liar.
 
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thewittowoo said:
There's barely any pretence at balance on LBC these days. Top of my head their recent recruitments

Lammy
Devon
Myska
Marr
Kentish
Goodall
Maitlis
Sopel


All clearly tacking left, some to the extremes. I've no doubt when Ferrari gives up, they'll slot someone from that wing into the slot.

Thoughts and prayers with the obsessives elsewhere.
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O'Brien turned up on the Media Show on Radio 4 and tried to make it all about himself by interrogating one of the other guests and ended up with him sneering 'I always insist that people back up their opinions with evidence'

Except you didn't when it comes to someone subsequently convicted as a paedophile, a fantasist and a liar.
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Apart from Marr occasionally, I don't listen to any of those named above.
 
thewittowoo said:
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O'Brien turned up on the Media Show on Radio 4 and tried to make it all about himself by interrogating one of the other guests and ended up with him sneering 'I always insist that people back up their opinions with evidence'

Except you didn't when it comes to someone subsequently convicted as a paedophile, a fantasist and a liar.
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Was it a comedy programme? Surely nobody invited O'Brien onto a programme about impartiality.

After all even BBC Newsnight gave him the boot because he is so obviously biased....
 
Redvers36 said:
Was it a comedy programme? Surely nobody invited O'Brien onto a programme about impartiality.

After all even BBC Newsnight gave him the boot because he is so obviously biased....
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Well ... I think there are nauances, everyone is biased in someway, but if you're a deeply unpleasant bleep you're more likely to get the heave-ho if an opportunity arises, know what I mean? :cautious:
 
Redvers36 said:
Was it a comedy programme? Surely nobody invited O'Brien onto a programme about impartiality.

After all even BBC Newsnight gave him the boot because he is so obviously biased....
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Many of the Beeb's regular radio and TV journalists were on strike yesterday in protest over the decision to axe BBC local radio. Perhaps they were desperate.
 
no-no said:
Same for me. What are your top 3? I liked putting LBC on to nod off to, I could just about tolerate Ian Payne chatting rubbish and wake up to Steve but I don’t bother with it now. Daytimes are a wasteland.
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I'm listening to talk radio, radio 4, GB news radio and sometimes times radio.

At least on those stations the programming doesn't merge all into one.

Ex lbc Head girl bev turner and Tory boy Peirce have a show on GB news to compete with Jobbie. They don't bounce off each other very well and it's often cumbersome, won't last long but I keep listening to the mess of it.

I'm most likely to listen back to talk's Vanessa feltz in place of Steve. Way too topical for a replacement, but at least it's a presenter who doesn't merge into the lbc generic.

Times radio is good for book recommendations.
 
Yel said:
Ex lbc Head girl bev turner and Tory boy Peirce have a show on GB news to compete with Jobbie. They don't bounce off each other very well and it's often cumbersome, won't last long but I keep listening to the mess of it.
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World Service has some interesting stuff. Good to snooze to also because there are no loud irritating adverts.

Andrew Pierce is actually more despicable than James on the personality front :eek: I know that's hard to beleive.
 
Redvers36 said:
Plus with problems abounding in European banks James will be desperate for diversions.

Expect plenty of name calling....
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Sadly for him tomatoes seem to be back on the shelves along with peppers and cucumbers..

The grisly Mick Lynch continues to parade his ugly mug for the dwindling cameras.. J will no doubt be eulogising him as usual
 
Redvers36 said:
Plus with problems abounding in European banks James will be desperate for diversions.
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Lot's of strike action in Germany ... lot's of football crowd trouble involving Germans too. I wonder if that'll get a mention? Let us know.

Honestly though, I know London's banking sector has a bad (or good depending on your point of view) reputation for laundering money, but who here doesn't think that's all Switzerland actually does! A giant money laundering washing machine for anyone and everyone, with some added right-wing tendencies to boot. Strange country ... quite sinister imo. I mean, cookoo clocks? Weird.
 
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Regarding banking ... James will no doubt bring up that time on Newsnight when he was asked to interview Pascal Lamy of the WTO and Andrea Leadsom. He's never gotten over it. Never been able to move past it. It lingers over him like a cloud. It's quite hilarious ... (and scary).
 
James was fighting off a cold today so not running on all cylinders ... stuck to his version of Monty Python with 'what has the budget ever done for you' and getting excited about some uranium that has gone missing. This was followed by Mystery Hour. All pretty dull.
 
Workplace bullying. He can't comment on the allegations whilst they are being investigated because it would be "improper". Plenty of quotes from sources now being published in the media.
 
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