THE NEW DAILY CROISSANT · Stephen Faragher

THE NEW DAILY CROISSANT 20 03 26

March 20, 2026·1 hr 55 min·5 clips

Steve reveals how donating £100 to LCR is like giving up one Greggs steak bake or Starbucks coffee a week.

Lockdown lands as something everyone at the table still half laughs at and half cannot believe. It starts with Boris telling the country it could hug again, which still sounds odd in the retelling. They remember the six o'clock news, the rules changing by announcement, and how quickly strange limits became normal. Then the queue stories start. A book outside a shop, people spaced across a car park, long waits that somehow became part of the week. McDonald's gets its own run. Daisy wanted to go, Switch Island was open through the window, and the car queue turned into a three-hour outing. It sounds ridiculous now, but the point lands because everyone remembers why fast food in a car could feel like a plan. The Range comes up next. Because it had a freezer, it counted as a shop, so browsing for pillows felt like a tiny bit of normal life. Nobody tries to make a grand point out of it. The episode works better as loose chat: agreement noises, unfinished thoughts, quick overlaps, and people comparing the small ways they got through being stuck at home. Amazon gets a sideways mention too. The hosts figure it must have done very well during that stretch, then leave it there instead of turning it into a lecture. By the end, the talk slips back into ordinary plans. Town is being avoided because of the UK March, and Daisy's nineteenth birthday meal at Ivy Asia gives them something nicer to look toward.

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A loose, local chat show that turns lockdown memories into easygoing radio.

The episode settles into a familiar Daily Croissant rhythm: local voices, lockdown memories, queue life, and the small routines that gathered around reopening.

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You want a Liverpool Community Radio chat about lockdown memories, queues, and reopening life.

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