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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

"If I won the lottery I'd give it all to the NHS"

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

Daily News, News

4.3913 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 155 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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0:19.0

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0:27.9

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0:32.7

listening to James O'Brien on LBC. It's a strange day. a, it's a, it's a strange day. Seventy fifth anniversary of the

0:39.9

National Health Service, something that's so baked into our lived experience in this country that we

0:45.5

possibly can't contemplate what it would be like if it, if it wasn't there. It's traditional at this

0:51.2

point in my ponderings to remind you of the Joni Mitchell song.

0:54.4

You don't know what you've got till it's gone.

0:56.5

And it then occurred to me that it's, in a sense, only 75 years old.

1:03.7

So it may feel as if it's part of our social furniture, our shared furniture.

1:08.8

It may feel as if it's an intrinsic part of our lives,

1:12.3

but it's only 75 years old. I'm always conscious, oddly, of

1:21.0

we running out, us running out, of people who can remember things.

1:29.3

So I was really struck when the last First World War veteran passed away,

1:35.3

the last person who could tell us what it was actually like to be in the trenches.

1:39.0

And of course, in the coming years, we will say goodbye to the last veteran

1:43.7

who could tell us what it was like to fight against the Nazis, to fight in the coming years we will say goodbye to the last veteran who could tell us what it was like

1:44.9

to fight against the Nazis, to fight in the Second World War. You wave goodbye, don't you,

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