LBC Boxing Day Special with Shelagh Fogarty, Iain Dale and James O'Brien (Part 1)
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 914 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Shelagh, Iain and James take a look back at 2023, picking through the bones of some of the main stories of the year. They share personal anecdotes and observations from their experiences covering the events that have been making headlines throughout another unprecedented year.
In Part 1:
- The PM’s pledges
- King's Coronation
- The things Iain wants most in the world
- James' strangest story of the year
- The Israel-Gaza conflict and its impact
- Cost of living
- NHS shake-ups
Look out for Part 2 in this podcast feed, plus you can watch the full conversation on Global Player now. Download it from the App Store or head to globalplayer.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello, I'm Sheila Fogarty, popping up in the whole show podcast feed, but I think you might enjoy this, certainly hope so, our LBC Christmas special. |
| 0:17.7 | Quite a year. It always is, isn't it? Another unprecedented chapter in UK politics, |
| 0:22.3 | and this is just part one. If you like what you hear, you'll find part two exactly where you |
| 0:27.1 | found this. So let's get into it. James and Ian, I don't know about you, but when I think back |
| 0:35.3 | on a year newswise, I immediately draw a blank and then a minute later, the whole thing floods in. |
| 0:42.3 | I've just been doing it. |
| 0:43.6 | I hope so, yeah. |
| 0:45.9 | I mean, I was just thinking, well, I immediately go to the politics. |
| 0:48.9 | Then I start thinking about the calls that we've taken. |
| 0:51.5 | And then randomly, two seconds in, somebody reminds me that I |
| 0:54.2 | reported for 12 hours on a ledge at the coronation, the small matter of the coronation. I mean, |
| 1:00.0 | I know you're not quite as giddy as I get about royal stories. But it was an historic moment, |
| 1:05.4 | wasn't it? Yes, it was. And I went to something. I went to the thing at Windsor Castle, which was quite nice. |
| 1:10.9 | Oh, did you? |
| 1:11.4 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:12.3 | I've got friends in high places. |
| 1:13.5 | I just keep it very quiet. |
| 1:14.6 | I thought it was awful. |
| 1:15.2 | Were you there? |
| 1:15.8 | No. |
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