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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Gary Lineker is right - again

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3914 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Summary

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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Looking for the right uni.

0:01.8

You've got one eye on a certain course, one on where your mates are going,

0:05.0

one on how far from home you want to be, one on a decent city and one on the uni's reputation.

0:09.7

But even with all five eyes wide open, aren't you missing something?

0:13.7

Let's make accommodation easy.

0:16.3

Unite students puts everything you need to enjoy uni life in one place.

0:20.0

So you can concentrate on making

0:21.8

friends, joining clubs, having fun and of course studying. With Unite Students' accommodation,

0:27.8

you get to live your now. Three minutes after ten is the time. After yesterday's reference to

0:34.0

George Orwell proved quite chillingly and horribly pertinent a little later in the day.

0:39.8

I thought I'd begin today with a writer rather closer to home, Michael Rosen, whose work you

0:44.1

will be familiar with and who you may even have heard on the full disclosure podcast.

0:48.3

He wrote this in 2014 and it's stayed with me ever since, actually.

0:53.6

I sometimes fear that people might think that fascism arrives in fancy dress,

0:59.2

worn by grotesques and monsters, as played out in endless reruns of the Nazis.

1:05.3

Fascism arrives as your friend.

1:07.9

It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job,

1:13.4

clean up the neighbourhood, remind you of how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt,

1:19.9

remove anything you feel is unlike you. It doesn't walk in saying,

1:24.8

our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution.

1:34.2

And I think also this morning of the conversations we had, which I think were slightly hand-ringing,

1:42.1

about whether or not it was correct to use the F-word in the context

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