This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

Three minutes after 10 is, well, obviously the time.

A very good morning indeed to you. It's Friday. We will be talking about coronavirus a little later in the program, but it is a mark, perhaps, of how, well, the sort of public interest, waxes and wanes.

I would suggest that it's become part of the furniture already.

So that initial flurry of interest, I think quite rightly, prompts an astonishing cavalcade of coverage.

And then it's sort of, it's as if society adjusts to the new normal.

So although there are still some overreactions in some quarters, empty supermarket shelves being perhaps the best indicator

of that. Remarkable bulletin a moment ago from the BBC's business editor, essentially saying

that he's been speaking to supermarket bosses and they haven't heard a thing from Matt Hancock,

who's tooling around the country at the moment, claiming that he's working with supermarket

bosses to ensure that food supplies reach our shelves. So someone's not in the loop or someone's telling

porkies. We may have a little look at that element of the story later in the program. But I think

that you wouldn't want me to weigh in at 10 o'clock this morning with another round of what are you doing, how are you coping, are you going to be able to pay your bills?

These are crucial pertinent questions that we've asked frequently and rather early, as it turned out, but the answers haven't changed, have they since yesterday or indeed the day before.

So I will put it a little later in the programme as things stand, but when I say that it's your show as much as mine,

it's not just a slightly platitudinal slogan. It is actually the truth. So if you're not happy

with that decision, do let me know and I shall possibly review it. Because the thing that really

intrigues me at the moment on every level, once you get away from the politics, move from the

political to the personal, the ability to change, to see the world differently is what

fascinates me most at the moment. Not least because I've realised relatively

late in life, I'm not terribly good at it. I'm not terribly good at changing or acknowledging

mistakes and I'm trying to be better. And for some reason, I was reminded this morning of the

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