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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Is anyone defending Jeremy Corbyn?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

Daily News, News

4.3913 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 140 minutes

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0:00.0

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

0:08.8

Three minutes after, ten is the time.

0:11.9

Coming up on the programme today, the most compelling evidence yet that helping parents to understand relatively simple issues in some cases will indeed reverse

0:23.5

the rise in child obesity who could possibly be opposed to that, apart of course, from people

0:28.5

making money out of shortening the lives of our children. And sadly, there are plenty of them

0:33.8

around. We will be looking also, I think, at calls for children from working class

0:38.8

families or poorer families to be allowed into Oxford and Cambridge on lower grades.

0:45.3

That cuts to the very heart of many issues currently facing the country. And when I tell you

0:48.8

that professionals from a working class background, for reasons I don't fully understand,

0:53.8

earn about seven grand a year

0:55.1

less than their middle class counterparts even when they're doing more or less the same job and

0:59.9

there is a tale from the courts which ties into both dementia and social care that will terrify

1:08.7

you it will actually that's a bit provocative.

1:12.1

It will break your heart.

1:14.2

It really will.

1:14.9

It's one of the saddest tales I think I've ever read, and it plays in.

1:18.2

I apologize.

1:18.8

I always work on the presumption that you were listening yesterday.

1:21.3

Sometimes I work on the presumption that you were listening 10 years ago,

1:24.5

which is incredibly presumptuous, given that about 20% of the total numbers were listening 10 years ago, which is incredibly presumptuous, given that about, I know, about 20% of

1:29.0

the total numbers were listening 10 years ago. But it ties into what we were talking about yesterday.

1:34.7

As indeed does the first issue, I don't know where to come on this. I think I'll start with

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