If you are one of those radio listeners who find the BBC’s Today programme boring, there is always Nick Ferrari’s LBC phone-in show in the morning. It is raw, abrasive at times, but addictive.
“Get it off your chest and on the radio,” says Ferrari, a former tabloid journalist. So confident is he that people will be queuing up to ring in that he doesn’t even bother to read out the phone number.
LBC’s non-stop phone-in programmes open a window, in living Technicolor, on the crazy divisions in the world today. Typical of the sort of news that really winds listeners up was a recent ban on eggs in advertisements on the London Underground, for health reasons – a ridiculous exercise while knife-crime figures soar.
