Hello, I'm currently out of office.

An article I read recently said we're more relaxed and more productive after a good break.

So, I've gone to Barbados for a month for science.

Yours, Toby.

Take your holiday as seriously as British Airways holidays take your holiday.

Atul protected.

This is a download from LBC.

Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

Morning everybody. Welcome along to your free pot. I'm going to take my headphones off. I've

decided, ladies and gentlemen, you don't need to hear me with headphones on. To be honest with it,

I don't know why broadcasters wear them. I can manage to do interviews on this station without

wearing headphones, but occasionally I put them on for whatever reason, I wish I could tell you.

I think it's probably force of habit. I've spent the best part of 40 years wearing

headphones. I mean, how dumb do you have to be? Why have they not invented something that we can have

implanted into your ear or something, or a little metal thing or a little gadget? And then you

just flick a switch on the side of your neck and it lights up red, and then green when you're on

air. And then it just means that you can hear yourself. I don't know why presenters need to hear themselves. There are some presenters I've known over

the years who have put their headphones on but they wear both headphones. I only wear the left

hand headphone and have the other one tucked behind my ear which means that you look somewhat

peculiar. The reason being that I want to make sure that I sound on air on the programme exactly the same as I do in

real life. I don't want to sort of make myself sound a little bit butcher. You know, but you don't want

to do that kind of thing. I just want to make sure that it works. So, headfold, but I decided

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