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🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 160 minutes
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This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio. To join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome our new bookworms to the club. Now, do you read traditional books or e-books? Oh, real books. Traditional, always. Yes, quiet. I read e-books. I adjust it so the font's huge. They make large font books. Think bigger. Imagine Moby Dick all cuddled up with a book. His font size. Oh my goodness. |
| 0:22.7 | Maybe it's time for vari-focals. |
| 0:24.7 | At Spec Savers get two-for-one varifocal glasses from 110 pounds. |
| 0:27.4 | Conditions and exclusion supply, see online for details. |
| 0:30.4 | I'm all fired up, because I've got serious beef. |
| 0:34.7 | Have a butcher's at Aldi's new range of Waggou. The marbling gives it an intense |
| 0:40.3 | buttery flavour and it's all from British farms. Ding dong. Go all fancy with Aldi, specially |
| 0:48.8 | selected. It is three minutes after ten and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC. |
| 0:54.5 | Here's a phrase that we haven't observed for a while, isn't that? |
| 0:59.7 | You remember that we used to talk a little bit about subjects about which you know nothing |
| 1:02.8 | until you suddenly have to know everything. |
| 1:04.8 | The best example of that is care homes for the elderly, I think. |
| 1:09.2 | Outside of the context of medical issues, I suppose. At care homes for the elderly, we think, outside of the context of medical issues, I suppose. |
| 1:12.6 | Care homes for the elderly, we know very, very little about, probably a little bit more than we did when I came up with that phrase, |
| 1:18.3 | given that we talk about it more now. |
| 1:20.2 | But you need to know nothing about an issue until suddenly a loved one needs to go into a home, |
| 1:25.1 | and you've got to find out everything about it as quickly as you can. |
| 1:29.1 | And it's almost impossible to do so. |
| 1:37.4 | Some of the detail contained within a very detailed report today from the Domestic Abuse Commissioner's Office, |
| 1:46.6 | well, a response to a report published earlier this month, finding that the government is now committed to repealing what is called the presumption of parental involvement and trust me this is really really interesting um i and a story that |
| 1:56.2 | opens various pandora's boxes or lifts up various rocks under which all sorts of things lurk. |
| 2:03.6 | Children facing domestic abuse are the focus of the protection, but the focus of our phone will be a little bit different today. |
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