LBC
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LBC Radio operates two London-based radio stations, with news and talk formats. LBC was Britain's first legal commercial Independent Local Radio
station, providing a service of news and information to London. It began broadcasting on 8 October 1973, a week ahead of Capital Radio
. The launch of LBC also saw the beginning of IRN
's broadcasting, as LBC provided the service to independent local radio stations nationwide.
In April 2007 a new marketing slogan for LBC 97.3
: "London's Biggest Conversation", a play on the initials, was introduced. LBC is currently owned by Global Radio
.
Both are also transmitted on DAB
in London and via a live stream on the LBC website.
. The station attracted considerable attention and a sizeable audience, particularly for the pairing of the celebrated journalist Paul Callan
and the writer (later national newspaper editor and TV personality) Janet Street-Porter
who contrived to create a new form of radio, albeit unintentionally. The pair were pitched as co-presenters of the mid-morning show.
The original station spawned a number of stars who went on to become household names in the British media. They include Jon Snow
, Julian Manyon, Peter Allen
, Rosie Boycott
, Bel Mooney
, amongst others. Entertainment personalities included Jeremy Beadle
, who developed a late night phone-in programme, and Mr Nasty - who argued over the telephone with children and went on to star in a Granada Television
series.
with a 46% stake, LBC was sold in 1987, beginning a turbulent commercial history.
The new owners were media company Darling Downs, later renamed Crown Communications, owned by Australian entrepreneur David Haynes. Crown sold the station's original base in Gough Square near Fleet Street
in the City of London
and relocated to Hammersmith
; and in 1989 split the station into two separate services, the news and comment LBC Crown FM, and the phone-in London Talkback Radio on AM. The transition was not initially well received, and substantially increased costs, pushing the company into the red.
Sold on again to Shirley Porter
's Chelverton Investments, the company almost disappeared completely in 1993, when the Radio Authority failed to renew the company's two licences, LBC Newstalk and London Talkback Radio, awarding the frequencies instead to London News Radio, a consortium led by former LBC staff and backed by Guinness Mahon
. The prospective loss of the franchise brought Chelverton to the brink of collapse, and London News Radio (soon itself taken over by Reuters
) bought LBC to keep it on air until the official handover date of October 1994.
, and the phone-in driven service London News Talk 1152 on the MW band
. These names were simplified slightly in mid-1995 to News 97.3 and News Talk 1152 respectively, but between October 1994 and July 1996 the LBC name was not used on-air at all.
Reuters then brought in additional shareholders, and between 1996 and 2002 LBC was part of London News Radio Limited, a company owned jointly by ITN, Daily Mail and General Trust
, Reuters and the GWR Group. This new consortium revived the LBC name on 1152AM on 1 July 1996. At the end of 1996 the FM service was relaunched as News Direct 97.3FM. Production for the station was moved to the basement of ITN's new multimedia building in Gray's Inn Road
.
, who trumpeted their purchase with the promise that they would lift the listenership to at least one million from around 700,000 (LBC enjoyed an audience of more than two million in the early 1980s). Production was moved to Chrysalis's base in North Kensington
, and the formatting of the two frequencies was swapped, the talk format moving to FM and the news format to AM; but an array of presenters including Boy George
, Henry Kelly
, Caroline Feraday
, Dr. Pam Spurr, and Sandi Toksvig
(all no longer with the company), plus an array of on-air gimmicks and two managing directors, saw the audience remain largely static. LBC's 97.3FM's increase in audience has been at the expense of its AM service.
In 2005, the station's Managing Director Mark Flanagan left Chrysalis to set up a political consultancy company and was replaced by David Lloyd. Some claimed he held no previous experience in the talk and chat radio genre, which overlooked the almost two years he spent with the Century FM
brand in its Border TV ownership days where the station was a 50/50 music/talk service. Lloyd introduced a number of programme changes to mixed reactions - these included a 'Drive Time' slot presented by Iain Lee
(since replaced by Paul Ross
, then James and Petri and now James Whale
), a daily 'Big Quiz' which promises (but has yet to deliver) huge cash prizes (and has since been cut down to one show a week), and a number of weekend repeats. He also introduced a 'podcasting' service, now called LBC Plus, and a number of premium-rate promotional opportunities to boost falling advertising revenues experienced by the radio sector.
Since September 2006 the LBC 97.3 station has been available in other parts of the country on the digital DAB
platform, after Chrysalis bought out its partners and closed the Digital News Network
rolling news station that had previously been carried on the MXR multiplex. Each multiplex region – the North West, West Midlands, Yorkshire, North East, South Wales and the West – broadcasts the London LBC transmission, augmented with reduced bulletins of regional news and information.
suggested that the group had little option, due to shareholder pressure, to sell its radio arm, including LBC, raising up to £200,000,000 for new acquisitions, while The Daily Telegraph
suggested that it could be the subject of a 'management' buyout. Subsequently it was announced on 25 June 2007 that LBC along with its sister stations The Arrow
, Heart
and Galaxy network were to be sold for £170 million to Global Radio
by the Chrysalis Group
, whose Chrysalis Radio operation closed down. In December 2008 the station moved to the Capital Radio
studios in Leicester Square.
The radio station became involved in the MMR vaccine controversy
after a broadcast by Jeni Barnett
on the subject was criticised as irresponsible and ill-informed by Ben Goldacre
. LBC and Global Radio demanded that Goldacre remove the audio of the show from his blog, which resulted in its being made available at Wikileaks and elsewhere and the preparation of transcripts of the broadcast. David Aaronovitch
in The Times
argued for
MP tabled an Early Day Motion
criticising Barnett and LBC for the likely effect of the broadcast on public health.
In the first year £8,000 was raised and grants given to 10 charities in Camden. Over 34 years since then, the charity has raised over £20 million, helping over 1 million children.
Grants are awarded to refuge and homelessness projects and to support groups for children and young people with a disability, special need or an illness, as well as to a range of sports, music, drama and leisure activities, holiday play schemes and residential breaks in the UK, cultural activities, supplementary schools, and literacy programmes.
Help a London Child is also working in partnership with London sports bodies to identify the need, and the groups and agencies required to deliver FS4A.
It was the winner of Outstanding Contribution to London Lifestyle at the London Lifestyle Awards
.
In January 2011, the charity became known as Help a Capital Child and is supported by both LBC 97.3
and its sister station at Global Radio, 95.8 Capital FM.
; Carol Allen; Dominic Allen
; Mike Allen
; Toby Anstis
; Dickie Arbiter; Tre Azam; Phillip Bacon; Bill Bailey; David Bassett; *Jeni Barnett
; Simon Bates
; Jeremy Beadle
; Alison Bell
; Bill Bingham; Therese Birch; Frank Bough
; Tommy Boyd
; Gyles Brandreth
; Bill Buckley; Paul Callan
; Douglas Cameron; Mike Carlton
; Mike Carson; Clare Catford; Marcus Churchill; Nick Conrad
; Andy Crane
; Jamie Crick; Jono Coleman; Steve Crozier; Tim Crook; Gino D'Acampo
; Dan Damon; Peter Deeley
; Anne Diamond
; Mike Dickin
; Richard Dallyn; Jenny Eclair; Richard Fairbrass
; Caroline Feraday
; Mariella Frostrup
; George Gale
; Krishnan Guru-Murthy
; Boy George
; Charlie Gibson; Charles Golding; Angie Greaves
; Eric Hall
; Bob Harris
; Brian Hayes
; Chris Hawkins
; Phillip Hodson
; Bob Holness; Eamonn Holmes
; Jon Holmes
; Fred Housego
; Rufus Hound
; Howard Hughes; Sue Jameson; Bob Johnson
; Bryn Jones
; Steve Jones
; Barry Jordan; Charlie Jordan
; Lesley Judd
; Henry Kelly
; Allan King
; Gary King; Jenny Lacey; Iain Lee
; Richard Littlejohn
; Wendy Lloyd; Sir Nicholas Lloyd
; Adrian Love
; Dave Luddy; Kelvin MacKenzie
; Richard Mackney
; Mike Mendoza
; Daisy McAndrew
; Rod Lucas; Carol McGiffin
; Monty Modlin
; Nathan Morley
; Douglas Moffatt;Bel Mooney
; Jane Moore
; Elliot Moss; Pete Murray; Paddy O'Connell
; Tom Parker-Bowles; Michael Parkinson
; Frank Partridge
; John Perkins; David Prever; Martin Popplewell
; Gill Pyrah
; Anna Raeburn
; Angela Rippon
; Rowland Rivron
; Richard Robbins
; Paul Ross
; Kenny Sansom
; Adrian Scott
; Valerie Singleton; Penny Smith
; Jon Snow
; Julia Somerville
; Laurence Spicer; Dr Pam Spurr; Janet Street-Porter
; Peter Stringfellow
; Carol Thatcher
; Sandi Toksvig
; Petroc Trelawny
; Michael Van Straten; Robbie Vincent
; Becky Walsh; Sandy Warr; Brian Widlake
; James Williams
, Matthew Wright, and Martin Young
.
Independent Local Radio
Independent Local Radio is the collective name given to commercial radio stations in the United Kingdom. The same name is used for Independent Local Radio in Ireland.-Development of ILR:...
station, providing a service of news and information to London. It began broadcasting on 8 October 1973, a week ahead of Capital Radio
Capital Radio
Capital London is a London based radio station which launched on 16 October 1973 and is owned by Global Radio. On 3 January 2011 it formed part of the nine station Capital radio network.- Pre-launch :...
. The launch of LBC also saw the beginning of IRN
Independent Radio News
Independent Radio News provides a service of news bulletins, audio and copy to commercial radio stations in the UK and beyond.The managing director of IRN is Tim Molloy, who succeeded long-term MD John Perkins in November 2009...
's broadcasting, as LBC provided the service to independent local radio stations nationwide.
In April 2007 a new marketing slogan for LBC 97.3
LBC 97.3
LBC 97.3 is a London-based talk and phone-in radio station. It is one half of the latest incarnation of LBC, the news and speech service which was Britain's first commercial radio station when it went on air in October 1973...
: "London's Biggest Conversation", a play on the initials, was introduced. LBC is currently owned by Global Radio
Global Radio
Global Radio UK Ltd. is a British commercial radio company, the largest in the country following acquisitions of Chrysalis Radio and GCap Media.The company's Chief Executive Officer is Stephen Miron, while the Group Chairman is Charles Allen...
.
Current services
- LBC 97.3LBC 97.3LBC 97.3 is a London-based talk and phone-in radio station. It is one half of the latest incarnation of LBC, the news and speech service which was Britain's first commercial radio station when it went on air in October 1973...
- talk format - LBC News 1152LBC News 1152LBC News 1152 is London's only rolling news radio station broadcasting in Greater London on AM, DAB, Sky, Virgin Media and online. The station's aim is to provide more in depth coverage of the day's news stories...
- rolling news format.
Both are also transmitted on DAB
Digital audio broadcasting
Digital Audio Broadcasting is a digital radio technology for broadcasting radio stations, used in several countries, particularly in Europe. As of 2006, approximately 1,000 stations worldwide broadcast in the DAB format....
in London and via a live stream on the LBC website.
Launch
The first presenter at launch in 1973 was David JesselDavid Jessel
David Jessel is a former British TV and radio news presenter; author; and campaigner against miscarriages of justice. From 2000 to 2010 he was also a commissioner of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.-Background:...
. The station attracted considerable attention and a sizeable audience, particularly for the pairing of the celebrated journalist Paul Callan
Paul Callan
This article is about the British journalist. For the television character, see Miracles.Paul Callan is a British journalist and editor who has worked on many national newspapers.-Early career:...
and the writer (later national newspaper editor and TV personality) Janet Street-Porter
Janet Street-Porter
Janet Street-Porter is a British media personality, journalist and television presenter. She was editor for two years of The Independent on Sunday. She relinquished the job to become editor-at-large in 2002...
who contrived to create a new form of radio, albeit unintentionally. The pair were pitched as co-presenters of the mid-morning show.
The original station spawned a number of stars who went on to become household names in the British media. They include Jon Snow
Jon Snow
Jon Snow is an English journalist and presenter, currently employed by ITN. He is best known for presenting Channel 4 News.He was Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University from 2001 to 2008.-Early life:...
, Julian Manyon, Peter Allen
Peter Allen (UK broadcaster)
Peter Edwin Allen is a UK radio broadcaster, and the current co-presenter of BBC Radio 5 Live's Drive programme.-Early life:...
, Rosie Boycott
Rosie Boycott
Rosel Marie Boycott , better known as Rosie Boycott, is a British journalist and feminist.-Journalism career:Daughter of Major Charles Boycott and Betty Boycott née Le Sueur, Rosel Boycott was born in St Helier, Jersey and was educated at the independent Cheltenham Ladies' College and read...
, Bel Mooney
Bel Mooney
Bel Mooney is an English journalist and broadcaster born in Liverpool.-Early life:She was born in Broadgreen Hospital to Gladys Norbury and Edward Mooney. She initially grew up in Liverpool on a council estate called The Green on Queen's Drive...
, amongst others. Entertainment personalities included Jeremy Beadle
Jeremy Beadle
Jeremy James Anthony Gibson-Beadle MBE was an English television presenter, writer and producer. During the 1980s, he was a regular face on British television and in two years appeared 50 weeks of the year. His shows regularly topped the charts beating Coronation Street and EastEnders on one...
, who developed a late night phone-in programme, and Mr Nasty - who argued over the telephone with children and went on to star in a Granada Television
Granada Television
Granada Television is the ITV contractor for North West England. Based in Manchester since its inception, it is the only surviving original ITA franchisee from 1954 and is ITV's most successful....
series.
Company history
Originally owned by a consortium led by the Canadian Selkirk CommunicationsSelkirk Communications
Selkirk Communications was a Canadian radio and television broadcasting company, which operated from 1959 to 1989. Evolving out of Taylor, Pearson & Carson, a local broadcaster in Vancouver, British Columbia, the company grew to own 14 radio stations, six television stations and cable television...
with a 46% stake, LBC was sold in 1987, beginning a turbulent commercial history.
The new owners were media company Darling Downs, later renamed Crown Communications, owned by Australian entrepreneur David Haynes. Crown sold the station's original base in Gough Square near Fleet Street
Fleet Street
Fleet Street is a street in central London, United Kingdom, named after the River Fleet, a stream that now flows underground. It was the home of the British press until the 1980s...
in the City of London
City of London
The City of London is a small area within Greater London, England. It is the historic core of London around which the modern conurbation grew and has held city status since time immemorial. The City’s boundaries have remained almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, and it is now only a tiny part of...
and relocated to Hammersmith
Hammersmith
Hammersmith is an urban centre in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in west London, England, in the United Kingdom, approximately five miles west of Charing Cross on the north bank of the River Thames...
; and in 1989 split the station into two separate services, the news and comment LBC Crown FM, and the phone-in London Talkback Radio on AM. The transition was not initially well received, and substantially increased costs, pushing the company into the red.
Sold on again to Shirley Porter
Shirley Porter
Dame Shirley Porter, Lady Porter, DBE, is a former Conservative leader of Westminster City Council in London and a prominent philanthropist in Israel and the UK. She is the daughter and heir of Sir Jack Cohen, the founder of Tesco supermarkets...
's Chelverton Investments, the company almost disappeared completely in 1993, when the Radio Authority failed to renew the company's two licences, LBC Newstalk and London Talkback Radio, awarding the frequencies instead to London News Radio, a consortium led by former LBC staff and backed by Guinness Mahon
Guinness Mahon
Guinness Mahon was an Irish merchant bank originally based in Dublin but more recently with major operations in London.-History:The firm was founded in Dublin in 1836 by brewer Robert Rundell Guinness, cousin of the brewer Arthur Guinness, and John Ross Mahon, an estate agent. A London office...
. The prospective loss of the franchise brought Chelverton to the brink of collapse, and London News Radio (soon itself taken over by Reuters
Reuters
Reuters is a news agency headquartered in New York City. Until 2008 the Reuters news agency formed part of a British independent company, Reuters Group plc, which was also a provider of financial market data...
) bought LBC to keep it on air until the official handover date of October 1994.
London News Radio
From 1994 to 1996, London News Radio operated the station from LBC's former studios in Hammersmith, as London News 97.3, a rolling news and travel information service on the FM bandFrequency modulation
In telecommunications and signal processing, frequency modulation conveys information over a carrier wave by varying its instantaneous frequency. This contrasts with amplitude modulation, in which the amplitude of the carrier is varied while its frequency remains constant...
, and the phone-in driven service London News Talk 1152 on the MW band
Mediumwave
Medium wave is the part of the medium frequency radio band used mainly for AM radio broadcasting. For Europe the MW band ranges from 526.5 kHz to 1606.5 kHz...
. These names were simplified slightly in mid-1995 to News 97.3 and News Talk 1152 respectively, but between October 1994 and July 1996 the LBC name was not used on-air at all.
Reuters then brought in additional shareholders, and between 1996 and 2002 LBC was part of London News Radio Limited, a company owned jointly by ITN, Daily Mail and General Trust
Daily Mail and General Trust
Daily Mail and General Trust plc is a British media conglomerate, one of the largest in Europe. In the UK, it has interests in national and regional newspapers, television and radio. The company has extensive activities based outside the UK, through Northcliffe Media, DMG Radio Australia, DMG World...
, Reuters and the GWR Group. This new consortium revived the LBC name on 1152AM on 1 July 1996. At the end of 1996 the FM service was relaunched as News Direct 97.3FM. Production for the station was moved to the basement of ITN's new multimedia building in Gray's Inn Road
Gray's Inn Road
Gray's Inn Road, formerly Gray's Inn Lane, is a major road in central London, in the London Borough of Camden. It is named after Gray's Inn, one of the main Inns of Court. The road starts in Holborn, near Chancery Lane tube station and the boundaries of the City of London and the London Borough...
.
Chrysalis
In 2002 the company was bought for £23.5m by the media company ChrysalisChrysalis Group
Chrysalis Group is a UK media company. It was founded by Chris Wright, who remains chairman and was listed the 1,000th richest person in the UK in The Times Rich List 2009...
, who trumpeted their purchase with the promise that they would lift the listenership to at least one million from around 700,000 (LBC enjoyed an audience of more than two million in the early 1980s). Production was moved to Chrysalis's base in North Kensington
North Kensington
North Kensington is an area of west London lying north of Notting Hill Gate and south of Harrow Road.North Kensington is the key neighbourhood of Notting Hill...
, and the formatting of the two frequencies was swapped, the talk format moving to FM and the news format to AM; but an array of presenters including Boy George
Boy George
Boy George is a British singer-songwriter who was part of the English New Romantic movement which emerged in the early 1980s. He helped give androgyny an international stage with the success of Culture Club during the 1980s. His music is often classified as blue-eyed soul, which is influenced by...
, Henry Kelly
Henry Kelly
Patrick Henry Kelly is an Irish television presenter and radio DJ.Henry Kelly was born in Athlone, Co Westmeath, Ireland. He was educated at Belvedere College SJ, and at University College Dublin where he was Auditor of the Literary and Historical Society...
, Caroline Feraday
Caroline Feraday
Radio Broadcasting =She joined Capital FM at the age of 18, after studying journalism and earlier stints at BBC Radio Kent and Invicta FM, spent five years as the station's Flying Eye travel reporter on Foxy's Drivetime and Tarrant at Breakfast, and presented Capital's London Chart show. In 2001...
, Dr. Pam Spurr, and Sandi Toksvig
Sandi Toksvig
Sandra Brigitte “Sandi” Toksvig is a Danish comedian, author and presenter on British radio and television.-Career:...
(all no longer with the company), plus an array of on-air gimmicks and two managing directors, saw the audience remain largely static. LBC's 97.3FM's increase in audience has been at the expense of its AM service.
In 2005, the station's Managing Director Mark Flanagan left Chrysalis to set up a political consultancy company and was replaced by David Lloyd. Some claimed he held no previous experience in the talk and chat radio genre, which overlooked the almost two years he spent with the Century FM
Century FM
Century Radio was the brand name of a group of independent local radio stations in England. The brand was developed with the launch of 100-102 Century Radio in North East England in 1994, with John Myers as managing director and John Simons as programme director...
brand in its Border TV ownership days where the station was a 50/50 music/talk service. Lloyd introduced a number of programme changes to mixed reactions - these included a 'Drive Time' slot presented by Iain Lee
Iain Lee
Iain Lee is a British comedian, and a television and radio presenter. His career began when he performed stand-up comedy gigs across venues in London. He subsequently became co-presenter of the comedy current affairs show The 11 O'Clock Show on Channel 4 and RI:SE...
(since replaced by Paul Ross
Paul Ross
Paul Ross is an English television and radio presenter, journalist, and media personality. He is the son of Martha Ross and the elder brother of Jonathan Ross.-Early life:...
, then James and Petri and now James Whale
James Whale
James Whale was an English film director, theatre director and actor. He is best remembered for his work in the horror film genre, having directed such classics as Frankenstein , The Old Dark House , The Invisible Man and Bride of Frankenstein...
), a daily 'Big Quiz' which promises (but has yet to deliver) huge cash prizes (and has since been cut down to one show a week), and a number of weekend repeats. He also introduced a 'podcasting' service, now called LBC Plus, and a number of premium-rate promotional opportunities to boost falling advertising revenues experienced by the radio sector.
Since September 2006 the LBC 97.3 station has been available in other parts of the country on the digital DAB
Digital audio broadcasting
Digital Audio Broadcasting is a digital radio technology for broadcasting radio stations, used in several countries, particularly in Europe. As of 2006, approximately 1,000 stations worldwide broadcast in the DAB format....
platform, after Chrysalis bought out its partners and closed the Digital News Network
DNN (radio)
DNN or the Digital News Network was a rolling news service on Digital Radio in the United Kingdom.-Background:It was revolutionary for the British radio market as it was the first regional network of news stations...
rolling news station that had previously been carried on the MXR multiplex. Each multiplex region – the North West, West Midlands, Yorkshire, North East, South Wales and the West – broadcasts the London LBC transmission, augmented with reduced bulletins of regional news and information.
Global Radio
In February 2007, Chrysalis confirmed media speculation that it was 'reviewing' the entire radio operation at its investors' request. Further media speculation from The GuardianThe Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
suggested that the group had little option, due to shareholder pressure, to sell its radio arm, including LBC, raising up to £200,000,000 for new acquisitions, while The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...
suggested that it could be the subject of a 'management' buyout. Subsequently it was announced on 25 June 2007 that LBC along with its sister stations The Arrow
The Arrow (radio)
The Arrow is a British digital radio station playing pop and the softer end of rock music. It broadcasts on DAB Digital Radio . It is also broadcast on TalkTalk TV and streamed online...
, Heart
Heart Network
Heart is a radio network of 17 adult contemporary independent local radio stations in central & southern England and north Wales. Each station broadcasts local breakfast and drive time shows and simulcasts network programming at all other times...
and Galaxy network were to be sold for £170 million to Global Radio
Global Radio
Global Radio UK Ltd. is a British commercial radio company, the largest in the country following acquisitions of Chrysalis Radio and GCap Media.The company's Chief Executive Officer is Stephen Miron, while the Group Chairman is Charles Allen...
by the Chrysalis Group
Chrysalis Group
Chrysalis Group is a UK media company. It was founded by Chris Wright, who remains chairman and was listed the 1,000th richest person in the UK in The Times Rich List 2009...
, whose Chrysalis Radio operation closed down. In December 2008 the station moved to the Capital Radio
Capital Radio
Capital London is a London based radio station which launched on 16 October 1973 and is owned by Global Radio. On 3 January 2011 it formed part of the nine station Capital radio network.- Pre-launch :...
studios in Leicester Square.
The radio station became involved in the MMR vaccine controversy
MMR vaccine controversy
The MMR vaccine controversy was a case of scientific misconduct which triggered a health scare. It followed the publication in 1998 of a paper in the medical journal The Lancet which presented apparent evidence that autism spectrum disorders could be caused by the MMR vaccine, an immunization...
after a broadcast by Jeni Barnett
Jeni Barnett
Jeni Barnett is an English actress and TV presenter who grew up in Borehamwood. She is married to Yorkshire-born actor Jim Bywater and has one daughter, Bethany.-Acting career:...
on the subject was criticised as irresponsible and ill-informed by Ben Goldacre
Ben Goldacre
Ben Michael Goldacre born 1974 is a British science writer, doctor and psychiatrist. He is the author of The Guardian newspaper's weekly Bad Science column and a book of the same title, published by Fourth Estate in September 2008....
. LBC and Global Radio demanded that Goldacre remove the audio of the show from his blog, which resulted in its being made available at Wikileaks and elsewhere and the preparation of transcripts of the broadcast. David Aaronovitch
David Aaronovitch
David Aaronovitch is a British author, broadcaster, and journalist. He is a regular columnist for The Times, and author of Paddling to Jerusalem: An Aquatic Tour of Our Small Country and Voodoo Histories: the role of Conspiracy Theory in Modern History...
in The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
argued for
'a class action against LBC for permitting a presenter to inflict her preposterous prejudices on her listeners, to the detriment of someone else's kids.'Norman Lamb
Norman Lamb
Norman Peter Lamb is a British Liberal Democrat politician, and Chief Parliamentary and Political Adviser and Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg.He is the Member of Parliament for North Norfolk....
MP tabled an Early Day Motion
Early day motion
An Early Day Motion , in the Westminster system, is a motion, expressed as a single sentence, tabled by Members of Parliament for debate "on an early day" . Controversial EDMs are not signed by Government Ministers, PPS or the Speaker of the House of Commons and very few are debated on the floor...
criticising Barnett and LBC for the likely effect of the broadcast on public health.
Help a Capital Child
Help a London Child was founded in 1975 by Lord Attenborough CBE. It is a grant-giving charity which twice a year provides practical support to groups working with those aged 18 and under.In the first year £8,000 was raised and grants given to 10 charities in Camden. Over 34 years since then, the charity has raised over £20 million, helping over 1 million children.
Grants are awarded to refuge and homelessness projects and to support groups for children and young people with a disability, special need or an illness, as well as to a range of sports, music, drama and leisure activities, holiday play schemes and residential breaks in the UK, cultural activities, supplementary schools, and literacy programmes.
Help a London Child is also working in partnership with London sports bodies to identify the need, and the groups and agencies required to deliver FS4A.
It was the winner of Outstanding Contribution to London Lifestyle at the London Lifestyle Awards
London Lifestyle Awards
The London Lifestyle Awards first took place in 2010 and is now an event held annually.The awards are the first of their kind and the event attracts thousands of entrants.-Nominations and Ceremony:The awards were created by London PR man Jason Gale...
.
In January 2011, the charity became known as Help a Capital Child and is supported by both LBC 97.3
LBC 97.3
LBC 97.3 is a London-based talk and phone-in radio station. It is one half of the latest incarnation of LBC, the news and speech service which was Britain's first commercial radio station when it went on air in October 1973...
and its sister station at Global Radio, 95.8 Capital FM.
LBC 97.3 presenters
- Nick AbbotNick AbbotNick Abbot is a British radio presenter, who has presented on numarious radio station in the uk for past 20 years.-History:Nick Abbot was born 22 August 1960, and was educated at George Heriot's School, Edinburgh and Brunel University in Uxbridge where he gained a degree in psychology. Abbot's...
- Steve AllenSteve Allen (LBC radio presenter)Steven William Allen Steven William Allen Steven William Allen (born 17 March 1930, Steven William Allen (born 17 March 1930, Steven William Allen (born 17 March 1930, [[Brinsworth], [[Kent]], [[England]]) is an english [[television presenter|television]] and [[radio presenter]], who is currently...
- Clive BullClive BullBull Clive is an award-winning radio talk show host, best known for presenting a late-night show on LBC 97.3 in London, England.-Background:...
- replaced by Anthony DavisAnthony Davis (comedian)Anthony Davis is a broadcaster, journalist and entertainer. He first appeared in BBC sitcoms and drama such as Grange Hill and Tricky Business in the 1980s as a child performer, earning him a place in the Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy.Since childhood Davis' talents encompassed music, magic,...
- Anthony DavisAnthony Davis (comedian)Anthony Davis is a broadcaster, journalist and entertainer. He first appeared in BBC sitcoms and drama such as Grange Hill and Tricky Business in the 1980s as a child performer, earning him a place in the Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy.Since childhood Davis' talents encompassed music, magic,...
- Nick FerrariNick FerrariNick Ferrari is a radio presenter who currently hosts the weekday breakfast show from 0700-1000 UTC on the London-based talk and phone-in radio station LBC 97.3. He also has a regular column in the Sunday Express and is a regular guest on The Alan Titchmarsh Show on ITV1...
- Julia Hartley-BrewerJulia Hartley-BrewerJulia Hartley-Brewer is a British broadcaster and columnist. She presents the weekday afternoon radio show from 1pm to 4pm on LBC 97.3FM, the talk radio station....
- Cristo Foufas
- Richard ArnoldRichard Arnold (TV presenter)Richard Arnold is a British television presenter. He is currently employed by Seven Network.-Early life:Arnold was born in a house in Hampshire, grew up in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, and attended University of Edinburgh, gaining a MA in English Language and Literature. He then studied journalism at...
- Petrie Hosken
- Ken LivingstoneKen LivingstoneKenneth Robert "Ken" Livingstone is an English politician who is currently a member of the centrist to centre-left Labour Party...
- James MaxJames MaxJames Max is a journalist and radio presenter specialising in business issues. He currently presents programmes for London speech radio station LBC 97.3. He was a semi-finalist on the first series of the British version of The Apprentice television programme.- Pre-Apprentice :Born in London in May...
- Nick MargerrisonNick MargerrisonNick Margerrison is a radio presenter who presents the weekend overnight show on LBC 97.3.-Early career:Nick Margerrison went to the University of Essex where he studied English Literature...
- James O'Brien
- Andrew PierceAndrew PierceAndrew Pierce is a British journalist and radio presenter.Pierce is a columnist for the Daily Mail and was previously Assistant Editor of The Daily Telegraph and assistant editor of the Times.- References :...
- Ian PayneIan PayneIan Payne is a British television broadcaster who has appeared on Radio 5 Live, Sky Sports News and Sky Sports. He is the son of Peter Payne, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist.-Early career:...
- James WhaleJames Whale (radio)Michael "James" Whale is a British radio and television host. He is known for his plain-speaking, often ascerbic and confrontational, broadcasting style; during phone-ins he frequently hangs up on callers he disagrees with or who do not make their point quickly enough.-Early life:Whale was born...
- Iain DaleIain DaleIain Campbell Dale is best known for his conservative-minded British political blog Iain Dale's Diary and for his frequent appearances on UK news channels as a political commentator. He is also a publisher, broadcaster and former Conservative Party politician...
- Simon CalderSimon CalderSimon Calder , is an English travel writer, currently the senior travel editor for The Independent newspaper.-Biography:...
Newsreaders
- Susan Bookbinder
- Sam Pittis
- Katy Radley
- Emily Littlemore
- Andy Hayes
- Clemency Norris
- Holly Ford
- Peter Ferris
- Alex Kirkland
- Claire Miller
- Ollie Yates (utilised with Capital FMThe Capital FM NetworkCapital is a radio network of nine Independent Local Radio stations in the United Kingdom which are owned and operated by Global Radio, launching on 3 January 2011. Capital was previously known as Mix, One, Galaxy and Hit Music at various times...
) - Dan Whitehead (utilised with Capital FM)
Correspondent and reporters
- Tom Cheal (Political Correspondent)
- Daniel Freedman (Reporter)
- Declan Harvey (Reporter)
- Frankie McCamley (Reporter)
- Phil Kitromilides (Sport)
- Sue Mansfield (Business Reporter)
- Jo Parkerson (Showbiz Correspondent)
- Kevin Hughes (Showbiz Reporter)
Sports Presenters
- Phil Kitromilides
- Russell Hargreaves
- Katy Murrels
- Nick Lester
- Rick Kelsey
Travel presenters and reporters
- Jay Louise Knight
- Joanne Webb
- Alan Joyce
- Craig Burchell
- Claire Whitehead
- Gary King
- Paul Murphy
- Nathan James
Past presenters
Past LBC presenters include: Adrian AllenAdrian Allen
Adrian Allen is a radio presenter, who is well-known for his previous work at talk based radio station LBC 97.3. He was born in Sunderland on 27 January 1962 in the North-East region of England and has broadcast on various stations in Great Britain, including LBC, Century 106 and Real...
; Carol Allen; Dominic Allen
Dominic Allen (British playwright)
Dominic Allen is a British theatre actor and playwright, and one of four company directors of the theatre collective Belt Up Theatre....
; Mike Allen
Mike Allen (broadcaster)
Mike Allen is a British radio presenter, who was last on the air hosting an evening show on 102.2 Smooth Radio in London. He left in December 2008....
; Toby Anstis
Toby Anstis
Toby Anstis is a radio presenter on Global Radio's Heart Network of stations. He presents his morning show weekdays from 10.00am - 1.00pm across the Heart branded network....
; Dickie Arbiter; Tre Azam; Phillip Bacon; Bill Bailey; David Bassett; *Jeni Barnett
Jeni Barnett
Jeni Barnett is an English actress and TV presenter who grew up in Borehamwood. She is married to Yorkshire-born actor Jim Bywater and has one daughter, Bethany.-Acting career:...
; Simon Bates
Simon Bates
Simon Bates is a UK disc jockey and radio presenter. Between 1976 and 1993 he worked at BBC Radio 1, presenting the station's weekday mid-morning show for most of this period. He later became a regular presenter on Classic FM...
; Jeremy Beadle
Jeremy Beadle
Jeremy James Anthony Gibson-Beadle MBE was an English television presenter, writer and producer. During the 1980s, he was a regular face on British television and in two years appeared 50 weeks of the year. His shows regularly topped the charts beating Coronation Street and EastEnders on one...
; Alison Bell
Alison Bell
Alison Bell is an English journalist and radio presenter.- Biography :In her teenage years she performed in many stage productions, as she was a professionally trained singer. This reflects in her hobbies, which include music, travel, tennis, swimming and rollerblading. She's also a smoker...
; Bill Bingham; Therese Birch; Frank Bough
Frank Bough
Frank Bough is a retired British television presenter who is best known as the former host of BBC sports and current affairs shows including Grandstand, Nationwide and Breakfast Time, which he fronted alongside Selina Scott.-Early life:...
; Tommy Boyd
Tommy Boyd
Timothy Leslie Boyd , better known as Tommy Boyd, is a British radio and television presenter who now lives in Chichester, West Sussex.-Early career:...
; Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Daubeney Brandreth is a British writer, broadcaster and former Conservative Member of Parliament and junior minister.-Early life:...
; Bill Buckley; Paul Callan
Paul Callan
This article is about the British journalist. For the television character, see Miracles.Paul Callan is a British journalist and editor who has worked on many national newspapers.-Early career:...
; Douglas Cameron; Mike Carlton
Mike Carlton
Mike Carlton is an Australian media commentator and broadcaster. He formerly co-hosted the daily breakfast program on Sydney radio station 2UE with Peter FitzSimons and later Sandy Aloisi. He is a columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald, having been sacked from the position on 29 August 2008, for...
; Mike Carson; Clare Catford; Marcus Churchill; Nick Conrad
Nick Conrad
Nick Conrad is a British radio and television presenter. He presents a daily phone-in programme on BBC Radio Norfolk in Norwich, which he describes as the programme 'that gets the whole county talking'...
; Andy Crane
Andy Crane
Howard Andrew 'Andy' Crane is an English television and radio presenter, best known for presenting Children's BBC , amongst many others.-Career:...
; Jamie Crick; Jono Coleman; Steve Crozier; Tim Crook; Gino D'Acampo
Gino D'Acampo
Gennaro "Gino" D'Acampo is an Italian chef, television personality and winner of ITV's 2009 series of I'm a Celebrity… Get Me out of Here. D'Acampo lives in the United Kingdom.-Early life:...
; Dan Damon; Peter Deeley
Peter Deeley
Peter Deeley is a British journalist who until January 2006 was a presenter on the London phone-in radio station, LBC 97.3.-Career:Deeley has enabled interviewed Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, former British Prime Ministers Baroness Thatcher and Sir John Major, Dr. Henry Kissinger, and Tony Blair...
; Anne Diamond
Anne Diamond
Anne Margaret Diamond is an English radio and television presenter and journalist. She hosted Good Morning Britain for TV-am and the similarly titled Good Morning... with Anne and Nick for BBC1, both with Nick Owen as her co-presenter...
; Mike Dickin
Mike Dickin
Mike Dickin , was a late-night host on the British radio station talkSPORT. Dickin used to present the 1am to 6am slot at weekends on Talk Radio UK from 1995 to 2001. He returned filling in for James Whale during James' battle with kidney cancer...
; Richard Dallyn; Jenny Eclair; Richard Fairbrass
Richard Fairbrass
Richard Peter John Fairbrass is an English singer and television presenter.-Biography:Fairbrass was born on September 22, 1953 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, in England, and raised in East Grinstead, West Sussex. He is the lead vocalist of the band Right Said Fred which he formed with his...
; Caroline Feraday
Caroline Feraday
Radio Broadcasting =She joined Capital FM at the age of 18, after studying journalism and earlier stints at BBC Radio Kent and Invicta FM, spent five years as the station's Flying Eye travel reporter on Foxy's Drivetime and Tarrant at Breakfast, and presented Capital's London Chart show. In 2001...
; Mariella Frostrup
Mariella Frostrup
Mariella Frostrup is a Norwegian-born journalist and television presenter, well known on British TV and radio, mainly for arts programmes. Her 'gravelly' voice was once voted the sexiest female voice on TV, and research to find 'the perfect voice' has indicated that Frostrup's voice is one of the...
; George Gale
George Gale (journalist)
George Gale was a British journalist who was editor of the British political magazine The Spectator from 1970 to 1973. He was educated at the independent Royal Grammar School, Newcastle and Peterhouse, Cambridge where he graduated with a double-first in History.In 1951 he joined Manchester...
; Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Krishnan Guru-Murthy , is a British television presenter and journalist employed by Channel 4. He presents the Channel 4 Evening News and the foreign affairs programme Unreported World.-Education:...
; Boy George
Boy George
Boy George is a British singer-songwriter who was part of the English New Romantic movement which emerged in the early 1980s. He helped give androgyny an international stage with the success of Culture Club during the 1980s. His music is often classified as blue-eyed soul, which is influenced by...
; Charlie Gibson; Charles Golding; Angie Greaves
Angie Greaves
Angie Greaves is a British radio presenter on London-based radio station Magic 105.4 FM.-Early career:Angie started her media career in 1982 as a BBC Administrator at Television Centre. In 1986 she moved to London’s Capital Radio, where she began working on the radio after being “discovered” by DJ...
; Eric Hall
Eric Hall
Eric Hall is a former showbiz and football agent famous for his flamboyant public persona, outlandish fashion sense and catchphrase "Monster"....
; Bob Harris
Bob Harris (radio)
Robert Brinley Joseph "Bob" Harris, OBE , known as "Whispering" Bob Harris, is British radio host who currently works for BBC Radio 2, presenting music two nights a week...
; Brian Hayes
Brian Hayes (broadcaster)
Brian Hayes is a radio presenter who is known in United Kingdom for his phone-in shows.The son of a miner, he left school aged 15 and worked as a clerk for a mining company before obtaining a job as a newsreader for a radio station in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia...
; Chris Hawkins
Chris Hawkins
Chris Hawkins is a presenter, performance DJ, reporter, journalist, producer, and music pundit....
; Phillip Hodson
Phillip Hodson
Phillip Hodson is a British psychotherapist, broadcaster and author who popularised ‘phone-in’ therapy in his role as Britain's first 'agony uncle'. His afternoon and evening counselling programmes ran on LBC Radio in London for nearly 20 years...
; Bob Holness; Eamonn Holmes
Eamonn Holmes
Eamonn Holmes is an Northern Irish journalist and broadcaster. He is known for his work on UK and Irish television, notably presenting GMTV and This Morning. He is married to TV presenter Ruth Langsford.-Education:...
; Jon Holmes
Jon Holmes
Jon Holmes is a seven time Sony award-winning and double Bafta winning British writer, comedian and broadcaster.-Early life:...
; Fred Housego
Fred Housego
Fred Housego is a former London taxi driver who became a television and radio personality and presenter after winning the BBC quiz Mastermind in 1980. His specialist subject in the final was 'The Tower of London'...
; Rufus Hound
Rufus Hound
Rufus Hound is a British comedian and presenter. He is also the winner of 2010 "Let's Dance for Comic Relief".-Career:...
; Howard Hughes; Sue Jameson; Bob Johnson
Bob Johnson
Bob Johnson may refer to:*Robert L. Johnson , founder of Black Entertainment Television*Bob Johnson , English guitarist*Bob Johnson *Dr. Bob Johnson aka Robert J. Johnson, U.S...
; Bryn Jones
Bryn Jones
Bryn Jones is the name of:*Bryn Jones , Welsh footballer*Bryn Jones , Welsh footballer*Bryn Jones , Welsh footballer*Bryn Jones , Welsh footballer...
; Steve Jones
Steve Jones (presenter)
Stephen Ashton "Steve" Jones is a Welsh television presenter. Jones is primarily known in the UK as presenter of T4. Internationally, he is known as the host of The X Factor USA.-Early life:...
; Barry Jordan; Charlie Jordan
Charlie Jordan (DJ)
Charlie Jordan is a British radio presenter, who has presented on stations such as BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BRMB and LBC. She made her radio debut on Buzz FM in 1990....
; Lesley Judd
Lesley Judd
Lesley Judd is an English dancer and TV presenter, best known as a long-serving host of the BBC children's programme Blue Peter. She was educated at the independent Royal Ballet School...
; Henry Kelly
Henry Kelly
Patrick Henry Kelly is an Irish television presenter and radio DJ.Henry Kelly was born in Athlone, Co Westmeath, Ireland. He was educated at Belvedere College SJ, and at University College Dublin where he was Auditor of the Literary and Historical Society...
; Allan King
Allan King
Allan Winton King, OC was a Canadian film director.-Life:During the Depression, King attended Henry Hudson Elementary School in Kitsilano, Vancouver...
; Gary King; Jenny Lacey; Iain Lee
Iain Lee
Iain Lee is a British comedian, and a television and radio presenter. His career began when he performed stand-up comedy gigs across venues in London. He subsequently became co-presenter of the comedy current affairs show The 11 O'Clock Show on Channel 4 and RI:SE...
; Richard Littlejohn
Richard Littlejohn
Richard William Littlejohn is an English author, broadcaster and journalist. He is noted for his Conservative views and currently writes a twice-weekly column for the Daily Mail....
; Wendy Lloyd; Sir Nicholas Lloyd
Nicholas Lloyd
Sir Nicholas Markley Lloyd, born , is a British former newspaper editor and broadcaster.Lloyd graduated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He edited the Sunday People from 1982 to 1983, then moved to edit the News of the World for a year from 1984, and finally edited the Daily Express from 1986 until...
; Adrian Love
Adrian Love
Adrian Love was a British radio presenter, famous for his Love In The Afternoon show on Radio Two. He was the son of musician Geoff Love....
; Dave Luddy; Kelvin MacKenzie
Kelvin MacKenzie
Kelvin Calder MacKenzie is an English media executive and former newspaper editor. He is best known for being editor of The Sun newspaper between 1981 and 1994, an era in which the paper was established as Britain's best selling newspaper.- Biography :MacKenzie was educated at Alleyn's School...
; Richard Mackney
Richard Mackney
Richard Mackney is an English journalist and broadcaster, probably best known as a reporter on ITV breakfast show, GMTV.-Background:Mackney was born in April 1971 in Emsworth, Hampshire...
; Mike Mendoza
Mike Mendoza
Michael David Mendoza is a British radio presenter and politician best known for the overnight shows he presented on talkSPORT between 2004 and 2008, initially on weeknights before being moved to weekends in 2006...
; Daisy McAndrew
Daisy McAndrew
Daisy McAndrew is an English journalist currently employed by ITN as a special correspondent for the ITV News at Ten.-Biography:...
; Rod Lucas; Carol McGiffin
Carol McGiffin
Carol Deirdre McGiffin is an English broadcaster of radio and television, best known for her regular appearances on daytime talk show Loose Women. She married Chris Evans in 1991; the couple separated in 1994 and divorced in 1998....
; Monty Modlin
Montague Modlyn
Montague Modlyn , was a British journalist, best known as a radio/TV presenter. Modlyn worked on BBC radio and TV often as a 'roving reporter'. Montague ("Monty") Modlyn (born 23 May 1921 in Lambeth – 6 May 1994), was a British journalist, best known as a radio/TV presenter. Modlyn worked on BBC...
; Nathan Morley
Nathan Morley
Nathan Morley is a multi award winning television presenter, columnist and journalist based in Finland and Cyprus.He is best known to international audiences for his live radio broadcasts on Talksport, LBC and the BBC to the United Kingdom...
; Douglas Moffatt;Bel Mooney
Bel Mooney
Bel Mooney is an English journalist and broadcaster born in Liverpool.-Early life:She was born in Broadgreen Hospital to Gladys Norbury and Edward Mooney. She initially grew up in Liverpool on a council estate called The Green on Queen's Drive...
; Jane Moore
Jane Moore
Jane Moore is a British journalist, author and television presenter.-Early life:Moore was born in Oxford, England. Her father was a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford, and her mother was a teacher...
; Elliot Moss; Pete Murray; Paddy O'Connell
Paddy O'Connell
Guy Patrick Bennett O'Connell , known as Paddy O'Connell, is an English television and radio presenter, working mainly for the BBC....
; Tom Parker-Bowles; Michael Parkinson
Michael Parkinson
Sir Michael Parkinson, CBE is an English broadcaster, journalist and author. He presented his interview programme, Parkinson, from 1971 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2007.- Early life :...
; Frank Partridge
Frank Partridge
Frank Partridge may refer to:*Frank C. Partridge , United States Senator from Vermont*Frank John Partridge , Australian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross and television quiz champion...
; John Perkins; David Prever; Martin Popplewell
Martin Popplewell
Martin Popplewell is a British journalist and newsreader who currently works freelance for Sky News. He also regularly covers in the absence of other presenters.-Education:...
; Gill Pyrah
Gill Pyrah
Gill Pyrah is a British broadcaster and journalist. She has worked for the Daily Telegraph, been a guest presenter on the Radio 4 programme Midweek and chaired the literary quiz Slightly Foxed on BBC Radio 4....
; Anna Raeburn
Anna Raeburn
Anna Raeburn is a British broadcaster and journalist who is famous for her role as an 'agony aunt' giving advice on life relationship and more general life problems. She is principally known for her work on Capital Radio in London....
; Angela Rippon
Angela Rippon
Angela M. Rippon, OBE, born 12 October 1944, Plymouth, Devon, England, is an English television journalist, newsreader, writer and presenter. Rippon presented radio and television news programmes in South West England before moving to BBC One's Nine O'Clock News, becoming a regular presenter in 1975...
; Rowland Rivron
Rowland Rivron
Rowland J. Rivron is a British comedian, musician, writer and television presenter.-Early life: Rivron was brought up in Hillingdon, West London and attended Abbotsfield Secondary School...
; Richard Robbins
Richard Robbins
Richard Robbins is an American film composer known for his work on Merchant Ivory films.-Awards:...
; Paul Ross
Paul Ross
Paul Ross is an English television and radio presenter, journalist, and media personality. He is the son of Martha Ross and the elder brother of Jonathan Ross.-Early life:...
; Kenny Sansom
Kenny Sansom
Kenneth Graham Sansom is an English former footballer. Until overtaken by Ashley Cole in February 2011, he held the record for the number of caps for an England national football team full back, having appeared 86 times for his country between 1979 and 1988.- Crystal Palace :Sansom started out...
; Adrian Scott
Adrian Scott
Robert Adrian Scott was an American screenwriter and film producer. He was one of the Hollywood Ten and later blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses.-Biography:...
; Valerie Singleton; Penny Smith
Penny Smith
Penelope Jane Smith is an English television presenter and newsreader. She has worked on the breakfast TV show GMTV, for Sky News and for Classic FM.-Early life:...
; Jon Snow
Jon Snow
Jon Snow is an English journalist and presenter, currently employed by ITN. He is best known for presenting Channel 4 News.He was Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University from 2001 to 2008.-Early life:...
; Julia Somerville
Julia Somerville
Julia Mary Fownes Somerville is a British television news anchor and reporter, who has worked for the BBC and ITN.-Education:...
; Laurence Spicer; Dr Pam Spurr; Janet Street-Porter
Janet Street-Porter
Janet Street-Porter is a British media personality, journalist and television presenter. She was editor for two years of The Independent on Sunday. She relinquished the job to become editor-at-large in 2002...
; Peter Stringfellow
Peter Stringfellow
Peter James Stringfellow is an English nightclub owner.-Early life:Stringfellow was born on 17 October 1940 to Elsie and James William Stringfellow , a steelworker...
; Carol Thatcher
Carol Thatcher
Carol Thatcher is a British journalist, author and media personality. She is the daughter of Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, a former British Prime Minister, and Sir Denis Thatcher, Bt....
; Sandi Toksvig
Sandi Toksvig
Sandra Brigitte “Sandi” Toksvig is a Danish comedian, author and presenter on British radio and television.-Career:...
; Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny
Petroc Trelawny is a British classical music radio and television broadcaster, who joined BBC Radio 3 in 1998 where he regularly presents Music Matters, In Tune and Live in Concert....
; Michael Van Straten; Robbie Vincent
Robbie Vincent
Robbie Vincent is an English radio broadcaster and DJ whose catch phrase for many years was "If it moves, Funk it"He started life as a journalist although Robbie Vincent's broadcasting career began as one of the pioneers on BBC Radio London in early 1974 during the miners' strike and Three-day week...
; Becky Walsh; Sandy Warr; Brian Widlake
Brian Widlake
Brian Widlake is a British journalist, broadcaster and presenter best known for co-presenting the BBC's Money Programme in the early 1980s with Valerie Singleton. He worked as a reporter for ITN in the 1960s and was a regular presenter of BBC Radio 4's news magazine programmes The World at One and...
; James Williams
James Williams
-In American politics:*James Williams , U.S. Congressman from Delaware*James D. Williams , US Representative from Indiana and governor of Indiana...
, Matthew Wright, and Martin Young
Martin Young
Martin Young is a television reporter and interviewer.Born in Glasgow, he attended Dulwich College and Caius College, Cambridge where he was President of the Marlowe Society and a member of Footlights....
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Guest presenters
People who have hosted 'one off' or temporary shows while regular presenters were away include:- Tony BlairTony BlairAnthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...
- 13 January 2004 (see below) - Ann WiddecombeAnn WiddecombeAnn Noreen Widdecombe is a former British Conservative Party politician and has been a novelist since 2000. She is a Privy Councillor and was the Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1987 to 1997 and for Maidstone and The Weald from 1997 to 2010. She was a social conservative and a member of...
- Abi TitmussAbi TitmussAbi Titmuss, , is a former English nurse turned glamour model, television personality and actress.-Early life:...
- 23 June 2006 - Frank DobsonFrank DobsonFrank Gordon Dobson, is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Holborn and St. Pancras since 1979...
- Diane AbbottDiane AbbottDiane Julie Abbott is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987, when she became the first black woman to be elected to the House of Commons...
- Edwina CurrieEdwina CurrieEdwina Jonesnée Cohen is a former British Member of Parliament. First elected as a Conservative Party MP in 1983, she was a Junior Health Minister for two years, before resigning in 1988 over the controversy over salmonella in eggs...
- Carol ThatcherCarol ThatcherCarol Thatcher is a British journalist, author and media personality. She is the daughter of Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, a former British Prime Minister, and Sir Denis Thatcher, Bt....
- Richard MadeleyRichard MadeleyRichard Madeley is a British television presenter and columnist. With his wife Judy Finnigan, Madeley has presented This Morning and later the weekday chat show Richard & Judy...
- Richard BransonRichard BransonSir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, best known for his Virgin Group of more than 400 companies....
- Boris JohnsonBoris JohnsonAlexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is a British journalist and Conservative Party politician, who has been the elected Mayor of London since 2008...
- 26th July 2011 - Clive AndersonClive AndersonClive Anderson is a British former barrister, best known for being a comedy writer as well as a radio and television presenter in the United Kingdom...
External links
- LBC Official Site
- History of LBC
- Another history of LBC, including the original 1973 schedule
- LBC - from 1973 to today, The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, 4 December 2002 - Year-by-year ownership and management details
- Tim Crook, The History and Development of Independent Radio Journalism in Britain, January 1998
- Brian HayesBrian Hayes (broadcaster)Brian Hayes is a radio presenter who is known in United Kingdom for his phone-in shows.The son of a miner, he left school aged 15 and worked as a clerk for a mining company before obtaining a job as a newsreader for a radio station in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia...
, LBC: you could have been a contender, The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, 1 October 2003 - John Plunkett, Stars reflect on 30 years of LBC, The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, 1 October 2003 - Vincent Graff, How we beat the BBC, The IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
, 14 October 2003 - Audience figures for LBC 97.3 and LBC News 1152, 1999–2008