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TalkSport interview with James Whale

Hannah 12.06.2007 16.38

Hello,

I’m back in London after three days visit to Tallinn for a radio interview with James Whale on TalkSport radio.
James Whale is legendary TalkSport presenter, the outspoken and self-righteous late night king who has developed a cult following over the years with his confrontational style that would have Attila the Hun running for the hills.
James loves nothing more than verbally assaulting callers on his late night phone-ins and it seems people on the other end of the line can’t get enough as we’ve gone through eight switchboards in the last two years.
The late night mouth-of-the-south started his career at Metro Radio in Newcastle, before going on to cause many a producer loss of sleep at Radio Tees and Radio Aire Leeds.
He also made his first break into television with The James Whale Debate in which voices were never raised and toys never thrown from prams as he chaired live studio discussions on religious and moral issues.
In 1993 he moved back to his native London to present Whale On for London Weekend Television, and 1995 saw the launch of The James Whale Show, which became cult late night viewing for millions. James has won three Sony Radio Awards. He has also written a book "Bald on Top" inspired by his own premature hair loss.

So about the show – there were many disturbing things like keyboard instead of piano and quite week sound-engineer and also microphones were meant to be for talking not for singing… to be totally honest with you, it wasn’t my favorite situation. But after several letters and good feedback from listeners – I think we did quite well and learn again about how to make things always better.
Here is James Whale after the show:



With love,
Hannah

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