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Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

What would I do with £51 million? - 6 May 16

Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.3808 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2016

⏱️ 12 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

This is a download from LBC, Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

0:05.0

Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today. It's nice to be company.

0:10.0

And, well, let's wait and see how the voting turns out.

0:13.0

We'll wait and see, we'll wait and see if you're going to have to sort of vote all over again.

0:19.0

That would be a nightmare. That would be a

0:21.2

nightmare. But either way, it's all, it's all very wonderful, and we thank Theo Usherwood for coming in on the programme. I would like it when people make it a bit easy for me, because I'm not the political bunny that you probably think I am. I have covered three elections for LBC and done various other things, but I do it with the help of other people.

0:18.7

It's called slightly cheated.

0:19.9

Mind you, you're listening to the man who used to do a sports programme. And as anybody will tell you who knows me, I'm the least sporty program, program presenter that you will ever hear. Phil Vickery, we came in a bit too late on the program for me to include him. But Paul Cooper was watching the dance moves and and now the producers see them as well. There's also a tightroping, tightrope walking Steve Allen,

0:58.8

and my favourite actually is not from the, oh, the Elvis quiz. The Elvis quiz is very funny.

1:06.2

Nobody knows anything. And these are Elvis experts. They know nothing. And so so we do this we did a quiz every day

1:12.2

this was just a silly little program quiz as opposed to the other quiz we did on Five's company

1:16.3

but we got these Elvis impersonators in everybody like that and it oh which sounds a bit like

1:23.1

but but it wasn't and they didn't know anything at the't have the fattest idea I knew more than they did

1:29.6

but it was funny to watch very funny you can relive it but my favourite bit

1:32.8

is me with the snow leopard who sadly died afterwards

1:36.3

because he had a brain tumour but it was the most go I've never held a snow leopard

1:40.0

before and this thing was a little cub but it was just like a giant ball of cotton wool. Seriously,

1:46.5

it was just like somebody had blow-dried his fur to give him this. It was beautiful. Really,

1:52.4

this was the Cat's Survival Trust. And we went down there, and I raved over it, and I said to

1:58.5

people afterwards on the programme, and this is where radio is fascinating, I'll mention something. And immediately 10, 20, 30, 40 people who say, we've been there, we've done that, or we remembered this or we remembered that. So when a minute ago we were talking about the hanging baskets down opposite the fox and goose, they really were the best hanging baskets I'd seen. They were lovely and I might have to take the car down there to go and pick up some hanging baskets

2:21.7

because they look lovely. I've got someone order from Chertsey from the farm down there,

2:26.5

but I quite like the idea of having some from there just to see how they turn out. Absolutely

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