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MMR #50: National Album Day and Radio 2

9 Oct 2020 Robin Gibson

Podcast: It’s National Album Day! It’s the 80s! It’s a Radio 2 poll! Will it be Dire Straits, or Public Enemy, or Whitney? Robin and Sean buy a kilo of mixed vinyl at Aldi and vote. Contains filler.

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MMR# 44: Lockdown style – top hats, slippers and Buckfast BBQ sauce

10 Jun 2020 Sean Gollogly

Podcast: WTF is Prime Minister Dominic Cummings wearing? Where can you get a pair of slippers in lockdown? Should you have a barbecue and should you use Buckfast? Robin and Sean put on their top hats.

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Richard Littlejohn by Rowan Tallant

Richard Littlejohn on Radio 2 on 1972: a gay old time

7 Aug 2019 Robin Gibson

You’d have to say it’s surprising Radio 2 has given Richard Littlejohn a show. It’s not the station for shock jocks, unless the shock is jocks boring their listeners to death or, worse, expiring on air themselves from boredom.

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Nick Ferrari by Rowan Tallant

Nick Ferrari on LBC: The dinosaurs were great, but it all went wrong

18 Jul 2019 Misty Whyte

Nick’s outdoor habitat is a petrol-fuelled motor. And the brakes fail on his normally balanced arguments when his inalienable, fundamental, cosmic right to drive to the corner shop for a pint of milk in the pursuit of happiness is threatened with dilution in any way.

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Jacob Rees-Mogg by Rowan Tallant

Jacob Rees-Mogg on LBC: A different grade of blockhead

20 Jan 2019 Robin Gibson

LBC don’t go in much for celebs. But, like Have I Got News For You, they have a knack for showcasing rightwing peabrains wobbling on the brink of the chute to the dumper.

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Tony Blackburn

Christmas TV ads: Where’s Tony Blackburn?

13 Dec 2018 Robin Gibson

Or is Tony dead? Never sure about who’s dead and who’s not.

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Your Call: Nicky Campbell, antichrrrist-ah

7 Dec 2018 Robin Gibson

A sluice gate opened this morning for a tremendous outpouring of Campbell’s gloop. 

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Nick Ferrari by Rowan Tallant

Nick Ferrari: Balance on the streets of Dagenham

22 Nov 2018 Robin Gibson

Nick is perceived as LBC’s chief goader and mocker, lancing antisocial misfits for three hours a day like a man out hunting dogs in the city with a homemade spear.

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Today: Bagpuss on vinyl

12 Nov 2018 Misty Whyte

Here today on Today was the news that some fixated gumps (Earth Recordings) have released the music from seventies’ kids TV show Bagpuss on vinyl – with outtakes.

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Britain's Favourite Crisps: Ben Ofoedu, Vanessa Feltz, Basil Brush by Rowan Tallant
Britain’s Favourite Crisps by Rowan Tallant
Cheltenham Festival - Bet Now! by Rowan Tallant
ITV Racing: Francesca Cumani, Matt Chapman and Ed Chamberlin – Bet Now! by Rowan Tallant
Masterchef: John Torode and Gregg Wallace by Rowan Tallant
Masterchef: John Torode and Gregg Wallace by Rowan Tallant
Theresa May by Rowan Tallant
Theresa May by Rowan Tallant
BRIT Awards 2019: Jack Whitehall by Rowan Tallant
BRIT Awards 2019: Jack Whitehall by Rowan Tallant
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Alan Turing by Rowan Tallant
Joe Swash by Rowan Tallant
Joe Swash, sweet Jesus by Rowan Tallant
Phil the Greek in the deep by Rowan Tallant
Phil the Greek in the deep by Rowan Tallant
Jacob Rees-Mogg by Rowan Tallant
Jacob Rees-Mogg by Rowan Tallant
Piers Morgan by Rowan Tallant
Piers Morgan by Rowan Tallant
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DimbleBruce by Rowan Tallant
Theresa May UK by Rowan Tallant
Theresa May UK by Rowan Tallant
The Thing From Another World by Rowan Tallant
The Thing From Another World by Rowan Tallant
Nick Ferrari by Rowan Tallant
Nick Ferrari by Rowan Tallant
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Michael Gove by Rowan Tallant

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