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. LBC's current format - with talk on 97.3FM and rolling news on
LBC News 1152 AM - was established in
January 2003 .
Current LBC 97.3 presenters include:
Steve Allen ;
Alison Bell ;
Bill Buckley ;
Clive Bull ;
Marcus Churchill ;
Andy Crane ;
John Cushing ;
Jenny Eclair ;
Caroline Feraday ;
Nick Ferrari ;
Gary King ;
Iain Lee ;
Wendy Lloyd ;
Elliot Moss ;
James O'Brien ;
Jo Parkerson ;
Anna Raeburn ;
Paul Ross and
Kenny Sansom .
Presenters used to fill in for absent regulars include:
Nick Abbot ;
Adrian Allen ;
Peter Deeley and
Jon Holmes .
Past LBC presenters include:
Carol Allen ;
Dominic Allen ;
Jeremy Beadle ;
Frank Bough ;
Tommy Boyd ;
Gyles Brandreth ;
Douglas Cameron ;
Mike Carlton ;
Mike Carson ;
Jamie Crick ;
Jono Coleman ;
Tim Crook ;
Anne Diamond ;
Mike Dickin ;
Krishnan Guru-Murthy ;
Boy George ;
Angie Greaves ;
Eric Hall ;
Brian Hayes ;
Bob Holness ;
Phillip Hodson ;
Adrian Love ;
Sue Jameson ;
Bryn Jones ;
Steve Jones ;
Lesley Judd ;
Henry Kelly ;
Allan King ;
Jenny Lacey ;
Richard Littlejohn ;
Daisy McAndrew ;
Carol McGiffin ;
Monty Modlin ;
Jane Moore ;
Pete Murray ;
Michael Parkinson ;
David Prever ;
Gill Pyrah ;
Angela Rippon ;
Valerie Singleton ;
Penny Smith ;
Julia Somerville ; Dr
Pam Spurr ;
Carol Thatcher ;
Michael Van Straten and
Sandy Warr .
You can listen to LBC by:
LBC claim to be the first radio station in the world to provide full-length
Podcast s for all its major shows, plus podcast-only shows. Both are available via a subscription service. Short 'best of' shows are made available free of charge.
On member Ron Davis who in May of that year was arrested for entering Parliament and throwing a condom containing purple powder over Mr Blair and nearby Cabinet members. Mr Davis claimed the attack was in response to the Prime Minister's failure to contact him or look into the matters discussed on LBC 97.3.
A regular guest on LBC 97.3 is London Mayor
Ken Livingstone , who usually appears once per month on the
Nick Ferrari breakfast show. During the show he takes calls from LBC listeners and discusses points put to him by Ferrari. It's become something of a running joke that the Mayor usually arrives late, blaming it on public transport, which he's famously keen to be seen using.
