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The Lovejoy Hour

Ep. 47 – JUNE SARPONG MBE – The Importance Of Diversity – INTERVIEW SPECIAL.

The Lovejoy Hour

Lovejoy

Society & Culture, Football, Sports

4.6 β€’ 767 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 22 November 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week Tim Lovejoy talks to broadcaster June Sarpong MBE about her new book Diversify, her own past prejudices and how she broke into broadcasting. If you would like to contact us then our email address is [email protected] or you can tweet Tim @timlovejoy
And the ism calculator mentioned in the podcast is right here –
http://www.diversify.org/ism-calculator.html

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Dear Love Show podcast. It is a special. Today we'll be having a conversation with June Sir Pong about her book, Diversify. I really like June. I think she's, I've known it for years because we've been knocking about in the industry. She's a really nice person. She's a great broadcaster as well. And I bought her what I thought was a special present.

0:21.8

But I don't know.

0:22.5

I can never judge whether people are just, you know, humouring me.

0:25.7

I bought her a bottle of olive oil.

0:28.6

It sounds terrible, doesn't it?

0:30.4

No, it was a very nice bottle.

0:32.0

It was a very nice present to me.

0:34.0

It was very thoughtful.

0:34.7

I just wish, you know, and we've done 40 odd of these, I haven't had one. I haven't had any presents. You've been given wine and

0:40.7

sausages and olive oil and all these sorts of things and books. Yeah. What have I had, hey? What have I

0:45.3

love? I'll give you love. I can give you a hug if you want? I can tell. It's interesting, though, because having worked on Sunday brunch, you realize that there's certain things that you'd taste, but you would never buy yourself.

1:00.4

Like a really expensive bottle.

1:02.1

It was like a perfume bottle of olive oil.

1:04.0

It wasn't that small.

1:04.9

It wasn't that small.

1:05.7

It was like...

1:06.6

Go on then.

1:07.7

What was the size of it?

1:09.1

Honey?

1:09.5

Honey bottle?

1:10.3

Yeah, maybe. Maybe we're

1:11.1

like a hot sauce bottle or like, um, like, um, vinegar. Yeah, vinegar. It's like vinegar. It's like

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