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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Harry..Meghan..Free Speech?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3912 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Summary

This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show; to join the conversation call 0345 60 60 973

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is GoDocompair FM reporting from Savvy Street where mysterious moustaches are appearing on residents' faces. So your tash, where did it come from? I was sold out my car insurance and go dot compare and it appeared out of nowhere. Madam, your moustache is magnificent. I packed a great deal on home insurance and this savvy tash grow on me. And resident cat, your whiskers have gone from... to marvellous. How?

0:23.2

Couldn't have explained your pet insurance deal better myself.

0:25.2

Britain, get in on a tash action.

0:27.4

Be savvy. Fill the deal at... Go dot compare!

0:31.8

This is LBC, from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

0:44.4

Three minutes after 10 is the time.

0:46.6

Regular listeners would probably like to know

0:48.1

that James the engineer is in the room

0:50.3

temporarily at the top of the show at the moment.

0:53.2

I just said,

0:53.8

do you think any radio phoning host has ever opened with a Philip Larkin poem? And he sort of rolled his eyes and said, yeah, you probably have. And there goes all of myself, congratulations for the morning. There's a Philip Larkin poem, one of my favorite poets, which it's called, I think it's called This Be the verse, but everybody knows it by the first line.

1:12.3

I'm going to have to change the first line because it contains a rude word.

1:15.6

I will change the F word to the word mess.

1:18.9

And I love the way that good art can address the universal.

1:24.0

It's why historically fascists hate culture, hate art. It's why they would, I mean,

1:30.0

for example, perhaps try and remove funding for art subjects from universities or get cross about

1:35.5

history being taught in countries with a lot of history. And this, I think, is a really good illustration of what Prince Harry has been talking about in this podcast that the Daily Mail has had a fit of the vapours about.

1:54.6

Actually, to be fair to the Daily Mail, I mean, two things.

1:57.7

The headlines are pretty gross.

1:59.0

But actually, the quotes that they have included in the coverage of this podcast are quite detailed. And if you were to read only the

2:06.2

quotes and not the, um, headlines, I think you'd come away with, with quite warm feelings towards

2:13.7

him and his wife and his, his child. And indeed to his story.

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