S3 Ep9 - LIVE in Conversation with James O'Brien

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4.8 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Journalist, Broadcaster and old friend of the pod, James O'Brien joins Jolyon live on stage at Shoreditch House for an evening of conversation about his life and career, Russia, Brexit, that infamous showdown with Nigel Farage and interviewing his hero, Ian Brown, of course!

The episode rounds off with a live Q&A with the audience and was recorded on the 17th April at Shoreditch House as part of their series of 'In Conversation' live events.

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Hayne Proustain.
0:05.0	I'm Jolian Rubinstein.
0:07.0	And we wanted to let you know that for the next few news roasts, the format's going to switch up a little bit.
0:13.0	They're going to be live sessions from Schroeditch House that Jolian and I have been lucky enough to host with some extremely exciting guests.
0:19.0	Yeah, kind of what we're going to do now,
0:21.9	mix up the format a bit,
0:24.2	and really talk to our guests a bit about who they are,
0:26.0	why they got into what they did,
0:29.1	and hopefully give you a bit more insight than you've had before.
0:30.3	So what have we got first, John?
0:35.7	Well, I was lucky enough to sit down and talk to the leader of the resistance,
0:39.9	a host of the unbelievably successful unfiltered and LBC presenter James O'Brien.
0:42.5	And James really got a lot of insight into kind of like why he does what he does, how his
0:48.2	family life affected his choices.
0:50.4	And I think it's really fascinating hearing someone talking about
0:55.0	why they love doing what they love doing.
0:58.0	And you'll see a very, very different side, I think, of James in this interview.
1:02.0	Certainly not one that you'd ever hear in the radio,
1:04.0	so I hope you really enjoy it. I certainly enjoyed doing it.
1:07.0	Thank you.
1:09.0	Thank you. So, I think it's only proper in this current environment where the news is moving so fast to talk about today's news.
1:19.2	And we were just talking outside about windrush and the sort of travesty that is.
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