Of course it is. That's the only reason why LBC employs her.

People say George Galloway is a good listen and look at the drivel that spouts from his mouth.

Having a look at the RAJAR graphs overnight seems to be doing well - with figures looking similar to the afternoons. I'm not sure Shelagh is doing so well.

Comparing with previous quarters and years, Iain Dale doesn't seem to have dropped as much as was suggested on here a few pages back. I would agree, however, his show has lost that uniqueness which initially made it stand out from the rest. It seems to have evolved into a three topic show rather like the others. I still like the show, but listen when the radio is on, rather than turning the radio on to listen.

Katie Hopkins does lack substance to her arguments. Once again today she was unable to respond to a caller's viewpoint. She asked him repeatedly to reiterate his comment, (which wasn't difficult to understand) as though stalling for time, as if her 'act' was wearing thin.
All I expect from KH is just a feisty, (face value) controversial, entertaining show rather than expecting anything.. else. Possibly just my outlook?

Yes, we do have three main phonein topics, but that hasn't changed. We always have had. However, we also have two or three 'news hits' each hour, plus business in the second two hours. We are a phonein station so it would be odd not to have a phonein element to the Drivetime show, but like Breakfast we are much more newsy than James or Shelagh's shows.

Having said that, it's always good to refresh and if anyone has ideas of what they would like to see us do differently, well now's your chance!

Perhaps not having the same topics on consecutive shows Iain,as on friday JOB had already covered the Golfing topic IE Muirfiled not acepting Lady members just a couple of hours later John Stapleton who was standing in for Shelagh covered the same ground,surely an all fresh discussion would have been better.

I can't speak for other shows, but my producers and I make a positive effort NOT to cover topics that have already been on other shows. There can be exceptions to this if the story is a massive one, but we always try to look for a new angle and question to ask. Bear in mind that people on this forum are not representative of an average listener. Most people do not have the radio on all day and listen in bursts. That is why it is often OK to repeat a topic, as long as the presenter brings a fresh angle to it.

The radio I like best is for the presenter to set up the topic, then get opposing views from "experts" which the presenter challenges then hand it over to the callers.
Gives the presenter the right to drop callers who have their own agenda or who are too dim to have grasped what the debate is about.
LBC do get some excellent callers who have constructive points to make and can advance a topic.
Equally there are many callers who have nothing new to say. IMO More of the former and less of the latter is good listening.

We do appreciate that we are an unusual bunch as we often have LBC on all day (and night) and that's why I said in my post that with me, it could just be that I am done with the news by the time Drive comes on unless something has happened during the day to change the headlines.

The same topics do seem to be regurgitated on LBC generally, not just on Drive.

Listening to Stig

Doesn't matter whether you are clever to make a point as a caller. However should LBC Presenters have to take an intelligence test or would they pass that, but struggle with a commonsense test?

Hahahahaha!!! Aaaah, I needed a good laugh this afternoon

Though to be fair its not an old style lefty paper in that it doesn't give a rats backside about genuine workers (unless they're ethnic or foreign) and the working class and their problems , its only interested in liberal left politics which is basically politics for the not-very-bright well off suffering from middle class guilt.

Try not to sound to much like the Sat Nav talking it can get confusing.....

He also likes playing music tracks to mix in with the callers. He does sound much more relaxed on BBC London.

For and against music tracks !

Firstly if you want music on your radio, listen to a music radio stationl

People probably switch on to hear phone-ins.

However, the music tracks can be considered the same as having ads on LBC, you have to 'suffer' them until the next caller gets to air.

I have mentioned before but what people forget is that the average listener in the UK listens to LBC for 9.9 hours a week (RAJAR 2016/1). If that is broken down by day, and if everybody listened for the same amount of time each day (including weekends), that means they listen for less than 1.5 hours each day. In actual fact there are more listeners during the week.

If the above is correct, then the chance of someone hitting the same topic twice in one day, seems somewhat unlikely.

I must have been listening to a different program because I heard KH "taking apart" many of the callers, especially the one that said Jews could eat Halal but Muslins cannot eat Kosher (or may have been the other way round), something to do with the language of the prayer at slaughter. Oh, and the reason behind Halal is hygiene, nearly fell off my chair, after some coaxing from KH the caller actually claimed non Halal meat was less hygienic.

Unlike certain other presenters KH gives every caller plenty of time to voice their opinion before she gives hers.

Did not hear the gun stuff so cannot comment.

She is amusing to some and an irritant to many. At least she is paying her taxes and working part-time.

Fair play to Iain for coming on here,answering questions and asking for advice. Possibly not the station remit, but I'd just prefer a news driven 3 hour show. I'm not overly interested what Bert from Beckton's views are on the topic of the day at drivetime.

You would, also, have heard the many callers who disagreed with her & were allowed the air- time.....so to do.

I wasn't too happy about the constant repetition of the halal/otherwise slaughtering of animals topic, yesterday

I tuned into IC, last night. He, too, was elaborating on the methods of killing !!!

Happy Monday to All x .......Hopefully, we have moved on from that topic.

Still not sure what you meant by overall presentation but never mind.

I suggest that you may wish to switch to LBC London News 1152 which is a rolling news service and no phone-ins.

I meant her presenting skills, in general.....

Is this Bruce Galliver guy from Bath Spa University Student Union on a wind up?. Did himself no favours.

I listened to O'Brien today and the show was going it's usual way .... O'Brien mentioned his headmaster, being adopted and IVF .... then he was on to the subject of smacking children.

There were the usual callers then one chap who called in who said he had been at the end of his tether with his 16 year old daughter and after one incident he grabbed her, put her over is knee and 'smacked her arse' as he put it.

Now, the rights and wrongs of that are one thing but a few minutes after the call O'Brien said to another caller ' do you think he is a pervert?' referring to the man. The caller sounded a bit shocked. O'Brien then explained that he had had texts in saying the man had done it for sexual gratification and did she agree with them.

I thought it absolutely disgusting that O'Brien should go down that route and I was left wondering about the state of mind of some of his listeners.

There was absolutely no indication that was involved or an issue and O'Brien should not have mentioned it. He was more or less inferring the caller had been a pervert.

Disgusting.

Many people might say that it is a bit perverted to do that. It's not an unfair question.

I didn't hear it; I opted for J H-B, as I do most mornings these days. It sounds nasty and rather typical of the tendency among the trendy liberal brigade to misinterpret actions which most of us would perceive as harmless. By harmless I don't mean that it was right for the man to chastise his daughter in that way but I doubt if there was anything sinister in his motives. And it certainly wasn't right for J O'B to publicly query the callers motives.