THE NEW DAILY CROISSANT · Stephen Faragher

THE NEW DAILY CROISSANT 27 03 26

March 27, 2026·1 hr 55 min·11 clips

Steve argues that commercial radio plays it safe while LCR gives unknown local bands a crucial platform.

Phones are the spark. A host notices parents with children on trains and buses, and the irritation builds from there. Look out the window, more or less. The point is simple enough: notice the child next to you while the ride is still a bit of an event. There is a sweet stretch about buses and trains feeling huge to kids, especially when cars have made most journeys feel ordinary. Then the blame shifts to choice. The hosts reckon young people may get too much say these days, with days out turning into negotiations instead of something the family just does. It sounds old-fashioned, and one speaker knows it. Still, the point sticks: sometimes children can just come along. The dog-walk example does the job. A trip to the chippy becomes proof that a walk goes down better when there is food waiting at the end. That is the rhythm here. A small annoyance turns into a bigger thought, then folds back into something local, warm, and faintly amused. The ending moves into music. Listeners get asked about local music, pop music, and whether the Beatles still mean anything to them. The answers are uneven, which suits the chat. Someone says their mum and dad got them into the Beatles, and that gets a pleased response. Then Paul McCartney comes up. The host claims the same school connection as Paul McCartney and George Harrison, laughs at the thinness of the claim, and lets it stand as a bit of local trivia. It ends plainly, with thanks, a weekend wish, and the feeling of a conversation finding its shape as it goes.

As heard by us

Neighbourly family talk, framed by fundraising and a Beatles memory.

Daily Croissant opens with sponsorship and fundraising chatter, then settles into an easy, neighbourly exchange about how children are raised, the pull of buses and trains, the value of a day out, and the sense that young people are given too much choice too soon.

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For a lunch break that drifts from kids on buses to Beatles memory and back again.

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