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Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Is the X Factor now a competition to see who's had the most traumatic childhood?

Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Global

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.3808 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2016

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Just for the podcasters - a little bit extra from the acerbic wit of London's longest-serving talkshow host!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm currently out of office.

0:04.3

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

0:14.4

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

0:22.4

Yours, Toby.

0:24.2

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

0:29.0

Atul protected.

0:30.2

This is a download from LBC.

0:33.2

Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

0:35.6

Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast.

0:38.1

For today, it's Monday the 5th of September.

0:40.4

And, of course, having had all the wet weather to start with, now we're told there's a

0:43.9

blooming heat wave on the way.

0:45.4

So 81 degrees of misery, as far as I'm concerned.

0:48.6

Nevertheless, the papers were full, as we predicted with Keith Vaz, all over the papers on what he might or might not have got up to, which became totally boring as far as I was concerned.

0:58.8

What was more interesting was hearing everybody talking about it.

1:01.3

He was saying, oh, your door would be beaten down.

1:03.3

He's not actually done anything wrong. I don't think it's illegal.

1:06.3

The only thing is he's made himself look a bit silly.

1:09.6

In fact, more than a bit silly, I think. So, no doubt

1:12.3

that one will run and run. I don't think he's going to disappear any time soon. Anyway, back to

1:16.7

James Jordan, who featured, as you know, in the programme this morning, because he was on the front

1:21.6

page of The Daily Star, claiming that strictly have already fixed their winner. Now, a little

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