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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3912 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 158 minutes

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Summary

This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio. To join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973

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0:33.7

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1:13.3

Moral panics, eh? I'd love them.

1:15.1

To be fair, the moral panic is the bread and butter of the radio phone-in host.

1:20.1

I'm supposed to start them. That's how this job traditionally operates.

1:23.8

You're supposed to start moral panic.

1:25.2

Oh, the world is going to hell in a handcart. We're all doomed. Oh, down with video games. Down with I don't know. What else? I'll do this. There's a text. Don't ring in, all right. But 84850 for a text or 0345-6060 973 for a WhatsApp message. Rap music was up there, wasn't it, for a long time? So was rock and roll, I presume. I'm obviously far too young to remember the birth or the advent of rock and roll, but things that were going to end civilization as we know it. It's a long, long, long, giving women the vote. Did you know that? Giving women the vote.

2:01.5

Not only was it going to end civilization as we know it, it was also going to cause wages to come crashing down.

2:08.3

It's weird, isn't it, that relationship between racism and misogyny?

2:11.8

Because, of course, one of the big lies about immigration is that it reduces wages of the workforce.

2:16.9

And they said exactly the same thing about extending the vote it reduces wages of the workforce. And they said exactly the

2:17.9

same thing about extending the vote to women back in the day. Anything else? Anything else? Anybody,

2:24.4

anybody? The contraceptive pill suggests Karen. Yes, I presume so. That's back to misogyny in a way,

2:30.1

isn't it? If you want to understand the great mystery of why a certain type of public figure

2:35.0

professes to care passionately about abortion issues, but not really one jot about children who have

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