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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

I can't quite believe I'm asking you this

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

Daily News, News

4.5840 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 146 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

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0:05.1

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0:14.2

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0:18.2

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0:22.4

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0:26.5

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0:29.6

It is four minutes after 10. We are going to dive shortly into matters Scottish, particularly with reference to events in Parliament on Wednesday

0:41.5

and to a lesser extent yesterday. But I just want to begin with a warning. Something that,

0:47.8

do you know, the clips that started going a little bit crazy a few years ago are, they can be a poison chalice.

0:58.5

I mean, first of all, they can get taken out of context.

1:01.2

So a three-hour show distilled down into a 90-second clip that, of course, people who haven't

1:06.1

listened to the three-hour show can use to jump to very, very curious conclusions. But on the plus side,

1:12.4

they do provide a record of what you've done. Do you know, it was in 2017 that I started calling

1:20.5

out colleagues even, certainly other presenters and producers for giving platforms to Islamist

1:27.3

extremists because they were good box office.

1:31.0

I think the point at which I realized we'd gone somewhere very, very silly was when I found

1:36.7

myself in the green room for the Alan Titchmarsh show on ITV, a sort of very gentle afternoon

1:44.1

entertainment presented by a brilliant broadcaster and a lovely,

1:47.4

lovely man.

1:49.1

And Anjem Chowdry, do you remember him, walked into the green room in his full robes with an entourage?

1:55.4

Like a sort of, like a sort of Kardashian of extremism. And I just thought, why are we giving these people oxygen? Because

2:03.9

they do something terrible. They create the illusion that extremists are representative of communities.

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