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Old 17-02-2016, 14:59
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No please don't Richard. If Bangla**** and t*h* want to continue this childish attempt to provoke you they should take it to PMs. No wonder this thread has the reputatyion of being cliquey ...............
I for one was enjoying the exchanges, isn't that what public forums are for? I have read this thread for years (not so much a contributor these days as I hardly listen to the station) and have never thought it was clicky
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Old 17-02-2016, 16:04
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Is it just me and am I alone in not caring what Emma Thompson thinks of the EU and Britain.

As for the Daily Mail which moans like hell every day on its pages convinced as it is that the Country is going to hell in a hand cart, the hypocrisy level is at 10 on the Richter Scale.
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Old 17-02-2016, 16:27
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Emma Thompson's new film opens this week. Today you can't open a paper or go on social media without seeing her mentioned. Whether her comments were in order to garner publicity for herself and the film or distract from the lukewarm reviews is anybody's guess but, nonetheless, job done!
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Old 17-02-2016, 16:45
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Emma Thompson's new film opens this week. Today you can't open a paper or go on social media without seeing her mentioned. Whether her comments were in order to garner publicity for herself and the film or distract from the lukewarm reviews is anybody's guess but, nonetheless, job done!
Have LBC ever had a film review section? Would enjoy that, sometimes listen to the film reviews on 5 Live but they are a bit up themselves and too clever for their own good.
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Old 17-02-2016, 16:59
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Have LBC ever had a film review section? Would enjoy that, sometimes listen to the film reviews on 5 Live but they are a bit up themselves and too clever for their own good.
That's a good point. It would provide an alternative to all the political debate on there. Say an hour as part of someone's programme. Guess it would depend on which presenter has the most interest in films. There must be plenty of critics who could do an hour a week with them.

I used to listen to Mayo and Kermode, but as you say it's too smug to be listenable.
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Old 17-02-2016, 17:00
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Is it just me and am I alone in not caring what Emma Thompson thinks of the EU and Britain.

As for the Daily Mail which moans like hell every day on its pages convinced as it is that the Country is going to hell in a hand cart, the hypocrisy level is at 10 on the Richter Scale.
It's not just you and yes, the hypocrisy of the 'outrage' is very clear, isn't it? I think you should find a name for that scale other than Richter, though. What should it be? The Mail-Sidebar-of-Shame Scale?
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Old 17-02-2016, 17:00
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Have LBC ever had a film review section? Would enjoy that, sometimes listen to the film reviews on 5 Live but they are a bit up themselves and too clever for their own good.
James Max used to do some film reviews with a guy whose name I can't remember, but who used to be paired with Petrie Hosken way back when.
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Old 17-02-2016, 17:13
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That's a good point. It would provide an alternative to all the political debate on there. Say an hour as part of someone's programme. Guess it would depend on which presenter has the most interest in films. There must be plenty of critics who could do an hour a week with them.

I used to listen to Mayo and Kermode, but as you say it's too smug to be listenable.
Maybe a two hour show devoted to film, tv and books could be fitted into the schedule somewhere. Just about everybody likes at least one of those and there is always new material to talk about and if it is a quiet week for new stuff then just fall back on the classic "what's your top five films"
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Old 17-02-2016, 17:16
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If only the Government invited them in, they would only be too happy to work at providing that additional infrastructure !
We have and the former Labour home secretary says we made a mistake.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...ack-Straw.html
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Old 17-02-2016, 17:25
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No please don't Richard. If Bangla**** and t*h* want to continue this childish attempt to provoke you they should take it to PMs. No wonder this thread has the reputatyion of being cliquey ...............
Thats ok i know where its going thanks.
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Old 17-02-2016, 17:29
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""The worst kind of snooty fat cat leftie luvvie.... Venting their metropolitan elitist snobbery".

Said about Emma Thomson, but so easily could be describing Mr OB!. No surprises that he's spent 10 minutes spitting out his defence for her before saying "but that's not what we're talking about"

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This was a great hour of radio with Ferrari and callers discussing champagne socialists. It must have made for uncomfortable listening for 44 year old Brian.
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Old 17-02-2016, 17:31
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It's not just you and yes, the hypocrisy of the 'outrage' is very clear, isn't it? I think you should find a name for that scale other than Richter, though. What should it be? The Mail-Sidebar-of-Shame Scale?
What worries me is the illness which seems unique to DM readers and Nick Ferarri devotees. I am talking about this boiling blood ailment which many of them say they suffer from. Sounds dreadful and my advice to those poor souls would be to stop reading and listening to stuff that is making you unwell.
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Old 17-02-2016, 17:32
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This was a great hour of radio with Ferrari and callers discussing champagne socialists. It must have made for uncomfortable listening for 44 year old Brian.
Brian must have choked on his Muesli breakfast,
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Old 17-02-2016, 17:36
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James Max used to do some film reviews with a guy whose name I can't remember, but who used to be paired with Petrie Hosken way back when.
James "Movies" Hartigan was the chap in question. I had a lively exchange with him when a BNP representative was given any easy time on his show with the inept Hosken.
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Old 17-02-2016, 17:41
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Yes welcome back Mike, I was worried it might be a lot longer. Will you be monitoring The Brian today? I enjoyed catching up on your comments from yesterday.
Back to regular monitoring of the ever pompous Brian on Friday this week. I imagine he will accuse someone of being a RACIST! while hiding away in his liberal elite, white enclave. Can you imagine how eager the Brian's would be to attend a party at Emma T's Hampstead home and discuss how jolly clever and smug they all are?
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Old 17-02-2016, 17:44
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Maybe a two hour show devoted to film, tv and books could be fitted into the schedule somewhere. Just about everybody likes at least one of those and there is always new material to talk about and if it is a quiet week for new stuff then just fall back on the classic "what's your top five films"
If only. I have been campaigning for LBC to cover theatre, music and the arts for some time. Seems preposterous that they are based.in the West End of London and aren't able to offer more on these subjects. Easier to talk about the NHS I suppose than have any real entertainment or discussion on the arts.
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Old 17-02-2016, 17:44
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Have LBC ever had a film review section? Would enjoy that, sometimes listen to the film reviews on 5 Live but they are a bit up themselves and too clever for their own good.
In the very early days of LBC, they used to have a daily Arts Programme at 7pm, I think - the name Tony Parsons rings a bell as a presenter. Then on Sunday afternoons Carol Allen presented a film review programme.

When they had News Direct, they had a one minute film review.

I just don't think that sort of programming would fit in with their current format.
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Old 17-02-2016, 17:46
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It's not just you and yes, the hypocrisy of the 'outrage' is very clear, isn't it? I think you should find a name for that scale other than Richter, though. What should it be? The Mail-Sidebar-of-Shame Scale?
There is the same amount of outrage and faux outrage generated by many news organisations on the other side of the fence to the Daily Mail. It's equally transparent.
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Old 17-02-2016, 17:50
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In the very early days of LBC, they used to have a daily Arts Programme at 7pm, I think - the name Tony Parsons rings a bell as a presenter. Then on Sunday afternoons Carol Allen presented a film review programme.

When they had News Direct, they had a one minute film review.

I just don't think that sort of programming would fit in with their current format.



It would probably fit in better then the sex show with Lucy Beresford and in the same slot.
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Old 17-02-2016, 17:53
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It would probably fit in better then the sex show with Lucy Beresford and in the same slot.
What about Lucy Beresford's slot Oh you mean programme slot Possibly, I never listen to her.
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Old 17-02-2016, 17:57
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Was ET given the right to reply? Of course not. The attack dogs were let off the leash and told to get stuck in. This is classic Murdoch media tactics, take one harmless line from "the enemy" spin it through their media machine and throw it out to the waiting mob.
Emma Thompson has the same right of reply as Frank Lampard did...
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Old 17-02-2016, 17:57
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What about Lucy Beresford's slot Oh you mean programme slot Possibly, I never listen to her.


Naughty naughty Martin.

Yes i did mean the programme slot.
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Old 17-02-2016, 17:58
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Nick Ferrari was well and truly caught out by that caller Anthony this morning. Normally Nick is the voice of reason on these subjects but Anthony was right- you can't criticse people for being offended by petty comments one day and then claim you are offended by petty comments the next day.

At least Nick had the courtesy to accept that he was wrong on that one. O'Brien would probably have cut the caller off and carried on moaning.

Great show from Nick as usual, some good calls this morning although the topics weren't as light-hearted as yesterday morning.
Great radio from Ferrari. He provides a sizeable amount of bluster but was also caught out and was big enough to admit it. No wonder he is so popular and wipes the floor with the manufactured, professionally liberal elite, "gob on a stick" persona of the smug and rather unlikable Brian.
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Old 17-02-2016, 18:00
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Emma Thompson has the same right of reply as Frank Lampard did...
Lampard took Brian to the cleaners for suggesting he was "scum". Thompson would be fawned over by Brian almost as much as if she were (for it is he) his fat tongued Mockney hero!
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Old 17-02-2016, 18:10
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Ferrari comes across very ignorant at times. He asks why someone ought get a free translator in court trials??

What would he do if he was arrested for a crime in Germany?? Would he shout loudly in English and hope for the best?? It is the responsibility of the court to allow the accused to follow their trial.

He was a third rate sun "tabloid ournalist" now he is a first class fool on National radio..
Amen to all of that.

She was criticised because she made a number of derogatory comments about her own country, without which she would not have made her £30m fortune. Is that not reason enough to be criticised?
Emma Thompson is entitled to say what she likes regardless of her social status. At least she was being honest. And considering she's made much of her fame and fortune in the US where she lives half of the time any criticism of her made here particularly that of the DM is all very lame.
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