Articles tagged Radio:
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 47: Election Night Programme Wins International Radio Award
- 21 Jun 2016
So, I found out this morning that Shelagh Fogarty and I have won the Gold Award at the New York Radio Festival Awards for Best Coverage of an Ongoing News Story=, for our General Election night programme on LBC. Should you wish to listen to the entire 7 hours again, you can do...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 45: When a Listener Emails...
- 4 Jun 2016
Last night I made a new friend. Here is an email exchange with an LBC listener which started at around 10.50pm… LISTENER: 1st time I have listened to your show & I was going to ring in to say that everything I have heard tonight was one sided for the Leave Campaign etc....
LISTEN: Gyles Brandreth on the 'Stairway to Heaven'
- 31 May 2016
My first appearances on LBC were on Gyles Brandreth’s Sunday afternoon arts and culture programme. One of his features was a sort of Desert Islands Discs or This is Your Life feature called ‘Stairway to Heaven’. Well, one week instead of Gyles interviewing a guest, I intervi...
LISTEN: Counting Chickens - Great Election Night Moments
- 30 May 2016
Back in 2001 I was an occasional presenter, with Fi Glover and Charlie Whelan, of Radio 5 Live’s ‘Sunday Service’ programme. I just discovered this recording on an old computer. It’s a documentary I made, which was broadcast on election night in June 2001. It’s a programme a...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 44: What to Put In And What to Leave Out
- 20 May 2016
This week, in case you hadn’t heard (!), I won Radio of the Presenter of the Year at the 2016 Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards. This is the entry compiled by my producers Jagruti Dave and Matt Harris. John Suchet, Frank Skinner, Christian O’Connell and Boogie & Dingo wer...
LISTEN: Sir Nicholas Soames Rips Boris a New One (Time and Time Again)
- 22 Apr 2016
I interviewed Sir Nicholas Soames this afternoon about Boris Johnson’s article in The Sun this morning. I certainly got more than I bargained for. He ripped Boris a new one, time and time again. “Not fit to be leader,” was one of the kinder comments. Have a listen. And her...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 43: Interviewing a Friend Who's Become the Enemy of Another Friend
- 25 Mar 2016
I was on a panel the other day with Marina Hyde, the Guardian columnist. She said she never goes to media or political parties because she thinks if she speaks to any well known people or becomes friends with them she wouldn’t be able to write what she wants about them in ...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 42: How to Lose a Listener
- 6 Jan 2016
Today we were talking (yet again) about Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet reshuffle. A listener phoned in to tell me how clever he had been, as a Conservative, to vote for Corbyn in the Labour leadership election. I lost my rag a little and told him he was being pathetic. It ...
My Interview with Simon Danczuk on the 'Sexting' Scandal
- 4 Jan 2016
My full, ten minute, interview with Simon Danczuk from today’s LBC Drive show. The reaction on Twitter was highly unusual, with both Danzcuk supporters and opponents commending me for the questions I asked. That doesn’t happen very often.
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 41: The Consequences of Radio Regulation
- 30 Nov 2015
These are two short excerpts from my LBC show today. The first was part of an interview I did with Bernadette Smyth from the Northern Irish Pro Life group ‘Precious Life’. Now I have a pragmatic view on abortion issues, but I am not unsympathetic to the pro-life lobby. But...