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Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Jack Whitehall....sort of funny - A Little Bit Extra - 28 Mar 16

Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Global

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.3808 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2016

⏱️ 13 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

Amazon has increased funding for employees to £3,000 a year every year for career development.

0:07.0

Like Juliet, she's now a trained technician.

0:10.0

And to her, the sound of machinery in need of repair, reminds her of how far she's come.

0:18.0

In two years, she's landed her dream job, providing her with valuable skills. That's up to

0:24.3

£3,000 every year for career development at Amazon. Eligibility conditions apply. This is a download from

0:31.8

LBC. Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra. Morning, everybody. Welcome along to your first day back, actually.

0:39.8

Tuesday, the 29th of March. If you've enjoyed your Easter break,

0:43.2

then you've had a nice rest. I had a nice rest, and I was working at the same time.

0:47.5

Well, look at me. Am I the clever one? So it was quite nice. I always think, you know,

0:52.0

if you can earn money while over the Easter break and you still get time off, that's what I call a winning combination. So anyway, I hope you had a nice time and I hope you're now delighted to be back at work. I bet you're not though. I bet you're absolutely not delighted to be back at work. I bet you're sort of thinking to yourself, oh, good, we've got to go back to work and we don't want to be here. But it's still fun, though, isn't it? A lot of people still sending

1:15.6

me in things about those children's programs, which actually was not what I was, not what I was

1:20.3

after at all today. But we sort of brought it in because I was able to bring you my story

1:25.2

of Michael Parkinson and his after-dinner speech in which he does talk.

1:29.5

He does talk about working with emu. And he hated it. I mean, seriously, but he was very interesting.

1:37.4

He said, you know, I've interviewed everybody and done this. And all I'm famous for is that bloody emu.

1:43.0

So we did laugh, actually. We did laugh.

1:46.3

Right, I was going to find something, and I have found it actually here.

1:50.1

And this is the row to Rio team.

1:54.6

And what they've done is they're currently rowing the Atlantic for McMillan Cancer Support.

2:00.6

I mean, it's part of a wider journey to link London to the next Olympic host nation, Rio.

2:04.6

The team are halfway through, and so they wanted to say thanks for the support.

2:09.6

They sent me a thing. They've also done a departure video, and they've done photos and everything else.

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