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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

What happened to veganism?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3913 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 137 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's three minutes after 10.

0:01.8

Very good morning to you.

0:03.6

I did something a bit strange yesterday.

0:06.4

I feel I should confess.

0:09.1

I looked up Mark Francois on Wikipedia.

0:12.6

Two things quite interesting about Mark Francois.

0:14.9

His middle name is Gino.

0:16.3

Did you know that?

0:17.2

Gino, because his mum's Italian.

0:19.7

It's amazing how many of these people who are absolutely passionately opposed to immigration

0:23.8

would not be here in this generation, were it not for immigration.

0:28.6

But that's a conversation for another day.

0:30.8

And the reason why I looked him up was because I caught myself doing him a disservice.

0:37.0

And it's very important to acknowledge when you do diservices to people.

0:41.2

You know who Mark Francois is.

0:42.6

People often compare him to Penfold out of Danger Mouse,

0:45.8

which I don't think is particularly insulting.

0:48.2

Penfold was a lovely character in many ways,

0:50.5

a better character than Danger Mouse himself.

0:54.1

But he cuts a slightly

0:56.8

comical figure. He, he, he kind of, um, I don't know why. It's, it's, it's not very nice to be

1:04.4

lookish, but he does cut a comical figure, whether intentionally or not, I could not say. But I was

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