Articles tagged Radio:
Sadiq Khan on Why He Uses Vaseline on His Nipples...
- 4 Mar 2014
listen to ‘Iain Dale and Sadiq Khan on Ed Balls, running the London Marathon and chafing’ on Audioboo
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 15: Going National, New Imaging Music & RAJARS
- 16 Feb 2014
It’s been quite a week for us all at LBC. In case you missed it the station went national on Tuesday on the Digital One DAB platform. If you think about it, it is quite ludicrous that this country has never had a national newstalk station. Talk Radio, in its various incarna...
Michael Gove Renews His Banter With Simon Cowell
- 12 Feb 2014
Last night I interviewed Michael Gove on my LBC show. We covered a lot of ground, but at the end of the interview I asked him about his spat with Simon Cowell, which occurred just before Christmas. He admitted he had instigated it and wasted little time in responding to my qu...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 14: When Bob Crow's RMT Lies To You
- 1 Feb 2014
Yesterday we rang to RMT to invite Bob Crow to appear on my radio show. Boris Johnson had just made an offer to meet him to talk about ticket office closures. His press people said they’d get back to us but Bob was a bit busy. “There’s a lot going on,” they said. Yes indeed. T...
LBC Becomes a National Radio Brand
- 30 Jan 2014
It’s just been announced that LBC is going to go national on February 11th. We will be transmitting on the National Digital One DAB platform meaning that for the first time all our programmes can be heard all over the country. You can imagine what massive implications have fo...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 13: "Should You Have Gone to Specsavers, Prime Minister?"
- 12 Sep 2013
Here’s the interview I did for my LBC Drivetime show today with the Prime Minister – who, before we went on air, urged me to blog more! Anyway, we covered the new scheme he was launching today to encourage new business start-ups, the row with Jose Manuel Barrosso (he expre...
Rachel Reeves Isn't Boring ... But She Can Be Very on Message!
- 10 Sep 2013
Apparently the Newsnight editor Ian Katz found Rachel Reeves a tad boring on Newsnight last night. I won’t comment on that, but it made me recall an interview I did with Rachel earlier in the year when she was, shall we say, very on message! Enjoy… listen to ‘Iain Dale spoke ...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 12: When a Minister Won't Answer the Question...
- 9 Sep 2013
listen to ‘That awkward moment when a politician cant answer a simple question!’ on Audioboo This evening I interviewed Treasury Minister Sajid Javid about the state of the economy. He pulled me up on an economic statistic I gave, so when he tried to pull the wool over my ...
It Shouldn't Happen to a Radio Presenter 11: Interviewing Badly Briefed MPs
- 30 Jul 2013
It’s never a good idea to issue a spur of the moment press release as inevitable you will live to regret it. That’s what happened to Labour MP Barry Gardiner today. In the prep for our show on LBC today, we noticed a tweet from a Labour council candidate, Matthew Kercher. It r...
LBC 97.3: Iain Dale Talks to Gyles Brandreth About Happiness & the Royal Baby
- 22 Jul 2013
This week I am standing in for Nick Ferrari, presenting the LBC Breakfast show. Today I had a rather hilarious encounter with Gyles Brandreth, who was supposed to be coming in to talk about his new one man Edinburgh Fringe show, but that all went awry when news of the royal ba...