Eddie Mair's new LBC show is like seeing your dog playing on a motorway

The new drivetime programme with mystifying caller conversations is unfamiliar territory for the presenter

“Do I just talk into this?” began Eddie Mair, wriggling confidently and a little theatrically into his new drivetime seat at LBC. “Is this the bit where I say what’s on the programme?”

The character he kicks off inhabiting, with that deep, unruffled voice, is Man Who Has No Clue What He’s Doing. “I’m joining a growing station,” he says, in what may or may not be a jab at the less promising figures at the station he departed. “Watch it go into reverse.” “No, no, Eddie! Don’t do yourself down, you’re the top! You’re a turkey dinner!” cried the nation, on the inside. It didn’t sound like he was fishing for compliments, so much as desperately trying to charm a new producer.

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