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Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Eddie the Tank Engine! - 27 Feb 15

Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.3808 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2015

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Just for the podcasters - a little bit extra from the acerbic wit of London's longest-serving talkshow host!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a download from LBC, Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

0:05.8

Morning everybody, welcome along to Friday. I'm so excited. I get really excited. Woo-hoo about Friday.

0:11.1

Mainly because I don't have any interviews to do today. And much as I adore doing my interviews,

0:15.5

and I love meeting the people. It's fantastic. I've had them every single day this week,

0:20.4

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

0:22.6

So today is the first day. And yesterday I had two to do, which pushes even my capabilities,

0:28.7

just a little bit. When you do a freewheeling radio program and then you have to do some freewheeling

0:33.7

interviews. But they've all gone very well this week. We have not had any disasters

0:37.7

at all. Not that we ever have disasters, but sometimes you think, I wonder if this is going to go

0:41.3

well. And then when I finish them, I think, God, that went really well. And the producer always says to

0:45.0

me, that went really well today. They really liked you and things. So it always goes really well.

0:49.5

We don't have any problems with anybody. I've never had anybody not enjoy it in all these years, apart from one.

0:56.0

Well, no, three, actually. I think in my total career, three people have not had a great

1:00.8

experience. But that's just, I think that comes down to them, because I treat everybody exactly

1:04.6

the same. It doesn't matter to me, whether you're Celia Imrey or Eddie Redmayne, you know,

1:08.9

or Dustin Hoffman, you all get, you know, as polite as you can be to somebody.

1:13.1

You don't treat anybody any differently.

1:15.4

Talking of Eddie Redmayne, he does look very good as a woman, but of course you would expect him to look very good as a woman because he's Eddie Redmayne.

1:22.6

He looked very good as Stephen Hawking, didn't he?

1:24.8

And so when you see him as a woman, you'll go, oh my God, he looks absolutely

1:27.6

fantastic. This time, he's been given a voiceover, and he's in Thomas the Tank Engine film,

1:35.0

and because he got an Oscar, and so now he's gone into Thomas the Tank Engine. And he's 33,

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