Who's watching what your children are watching when you're not watching?
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2020
⏱️ 132 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien. |
| 0:14.9 | Hello, three minutes after ten is the time. |
| 0:17.4 | My apologies that I managed to end yesterday's show without delivering the conclusion to the |
| 0:22.8 | tale of the speeding policeman. |
| 0:24.9 | I shall blame that on an esteemed colleague, no doubt, in the course of what follows. |
| 0:29.6 | But for the time being, I shall take full responsibility for that. |
| 0:32.3 | I will, before the end of today's programme, I will reveal to you the astonishing defence |
| 0:37.3 | that saw a police officer |
| 0:38.7 | escape all charges after being caught driving at 110 miles an hour in a 13 mile per hour |
| 0:45.0 | zone. I imagine most of you've looked up the answer to that. But anyway, to begin with a |
| 0:50.2 | mayor cul-par. And speaking of Mayer Al-Cul-Pars, if I ever drop clangers of epic magnitude, |
| 0:59.7 | then the organisation which would, |
| 1:02.1 | I mean, do everything from slap my wrists |
| 1:04.5 | right through to leveling an enormous financial penalty |
| 1:08.2 | upon my employer, |
| 1:09.3 | that organisation is called Offcom. |
| 1:11.6 | And what they do is essentially publish a bunch of guidelines, |
| 1:17.8 | which are mostly very sensible, and not always obviously sensible, |
| 1:22.0 | but the more you think about them, the more sensible they often become. |
| 1:25.8 | And if a broadcaster were to breach those guidelines, so I mean off the |
| 1:30.4 | top of my head, if I were to, I mean, most obviously, if I were to even mention elections in a |
| 1:37.4 | certain way, then I'd get into trouble. If I mentioned that an election is taking place, in fact, |
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