Can't be 100% but it sounded like him.

Iain also talked last night about a listener who had turned on the radio again and found him. Iain said how strange it would be to go away and come back and find someone he liked on the radio again without him knowing they were back on air. He used the example of Tommy Boyd but said that won't happen as he isn't on air ... yet, Both him and Kath said they are working on it. Not sure what that means but sounds good.

I've noticed over the last few weeks the 'straight-to-air hour' has been shrinking into a 'straight-to-air-forty minutes' if you muck around too much with something that is good it will end up not good.

One nil to you...fair play...you got me there!
Maybe a bit of bum licking is okay afterall!

That's a tricky one. That happens because there are callers still waiting from the main part of the show. Enforcing a strict cut off at midnight means that these callers who might have been waiting for half an hour or more don't get on. I'm sure this must have happened in the LBC and Absolute days when there was straight-to-air in the last 20/30 minutes.

You make a very fair point but I suggest in future when they make a rule they say it loudly and clearly over the air so every caller understands the rule and stick to it no matter what.

I guess I'm just disappointed that they might ditch it.

Looks like Iain might have a bit of a scoop on Wednesday. Peter Tatchell has just upstaged Jeremy Corbyn during a speech.

I called the other night, but didn't get a call back.

Well you can't blame them for that!!!.


Only joking honest Chin.

Grr!

Iain has never called me a dick but he did cut me off on Friday which made my day!
I actually really enjoyed the show on Friday, yeah there weren't as many callers as on other nights but I like the more relaxed shows sometimes.

Well if there's not enough Straight to Air to fill 40 minutes it'd be a bit strange to drop callers waiting from the first 2hrs to then only have a couple of people for the Straight to Air spot

Funny coming back after the weekend to see we jumped 3 pages

Jessica just phoned in for I think the 3rd time to Iain on talkRADIO. I thought she would be a regular caller by now but this call was worth the wait. We learned:

She's just got a TV licence for the first time
She stopped listening to Nick Abbot in July

Hello Radamfi
Let me make it clear, I have not abandoned Nick Abbot, we're on a break.

I'm the same, i love Nick and think he's one of the greats but he seems to be really struggling at the moment. When Iain announced his show i was dreading who to choose on fridays but it's been pretty easy

I would love to see Nick take weekend lates on talkRADIO, i really believe if he was given the freedom to do what he wanted he would create a awesome show.

I love Iain's show so no complaints there. However, is it just me or does he tend to tail off his sentences to an inaudible mumble?

I'm hoping his A-Z will cheer him up. He's got a bit too grumpy and bored with himself.
I'm going to call in when it's 'I' with Ian McCaskill.

To be honest, I'm not sure what Nick would do given a free hand. If you look back to his LBC shows before the Global takeover, he was already starting to adopt a considerably more news orientated format, which surprised many of us who were debating it at the time here on DS and on Timo's former Nick Abbot forum. Some of us were exasperated when he was doing his lengthy newspaper reviews and hoped that the newspapers wouldn't arrive in time so we would be spared that. Iain and Clive Bull were doing news-free shows back then so Nick appeared to be doing news voluntarily. The show appeared to be mostly free-form because the regular callers mostly listened to Nick on previous stations so called in with a similar style, and newer callers were also often Iain/Clive callers so didn't call in about the news either.

So when Global took over, the change in Nick's show was not that radical as with Clive Bull. The main change was the banning of the regular callers such as Ade, Louise and Trixie. However, there was one regular caller during the David Lloyd era with a Northern Irish accent who would bang on about the EU all the time, and she didn't get banned.

At the time I remember thinking Nick talking about more about the news indicated a change in his tastes and interests as he was older.

However I do wonder now if he realised a free-form format may not last so doing some ‘newstalk’ was to show that he could do that style of radio.

Isn't there a thread for "How bad Nick Abbot has got these days"? I thought this was a thread for Iain

We are only talking about that because Jessica mentioned him last night, but yes I wasn't there to be so many posts about that. Although that thread is approaching it from people being fed up the Brexit/Trump angle but otherwise largely happy with a newsy format.

Another caller to return after a long gap last night was Geeky Girl.

If that was an older woman, it sounds like Joan from Wallington - she died a couple of years ago.

I am listening back to a few old Iain shows lately and love hearing stuff that he's jokingly said that had come true. The main one is a comment he made saying "Blimey in 2 years you will find me doing BBC 3 Counties Breakfast" but listened to one yesterday where he was deciding if he could do the new style LBC/Old TalkSPORT style of radio. He's was talking about if he got fired from Absolute there isn't really anywhere he could go now and that talkSPORT would be about the only place, but he would have to do serious stuff. He end's it by shouting "I WANT THAT TALKSPORT GIG" after doing a pretend TalkSPORT phone in with a caller before saying that he doesn't and would much prefer Absolute to renew his contact.

Roll on 5 years and there he is working for talkRADIO, strange how it all works out.

Big changes in the pipeline for DS.

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Yes, I was talking about her.

It's the hate show special tonight. Iain is going to try and drop his liberal, soft, snowflake, safe place searching persona for someone with balls, I'd image he will become like JHB/Hopkins but with even more attitude. It should be fun to listen to.

If only he could invite his pal Matt Forde to have another round with Johnothan/Lindsey again. That encounter which can be found on YouTube is hate radio at its most hateful.