The Mother of All Talk Shows
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Genre | Political discussion and phone-in |
Running time | Sunday 19:00–21:00 (90 minutes) Wednesday 21:00–23:00 |
Country of origin | UK |
Language(s) | English |
Home station | talkRADIO (2016–2019) Talksport (2006–2010) |
Hosted by | George Galloway |
Recording studio | Central London |
No. of episodes | 282 ongoing |
Website | https://moats.tv/watch/ |
Podcast | https://tunein.com/podcasts/News--Politics-Podcasts/MOATS-The-Podcast-p1493502/ |
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The Mother of All Talk Shows is an international talk radio style show hosted by Scottish broadcaster and politician George Galloway on YouTube, Rumble, Telegram, Facebook, Twitter and Gettr. The show airs on Sundays 7pm UK and Wednesday 9pm UK, and can be watched at MOATS.tv.
The show formerly aired on
History
talkSPORT
On 11 March 2006, Galloway began his radio show on Talksport, and two weeks later started a simultaneous broadcast on Talk 107, Talksport's Edinburgh-based sister station. It was billed as The Mother of All Talk Shows. Galloway chose to begin every radio broadcast with the theme from the Top Cat cartoon series (an allusion to his January 2006 humorous impersonation of a cat fed milk by actress Rula Lenska on Channel 5's Celebrity Big Brother),[2] followed by an extempore monologue by himself, dealing primarily with political issues, economics, international relations, political philosophy and other topical issues. The show's title refers to Saddam Hussein's remark that the Gulf War was "the mother of all battles". Galloway made an inexplicit allusion to Hussein's remark comments at the U.S. Senate "Oil for Food" hearing in May 2005, when he called the hearing "the mother of all smokescreens".
After the opening monologue, Galloway invited callers to challenge his views, with a preference for those who disagree with him and women callers. Galloway occasionally called his program The Great Debate and is different from other talk show hosts in that he willingly and ably debated hostile callers and encouraged those who strongly disagree with him to call "come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough".
In June 2009, broadcasting regulator
Galloway stopped presenting the show on 27 March 2010, due to campaign commitments in the 2010 UK General Election.[4] In August 2010, he returned to the station with a new show in a similar format, but titled The Week with George Galloway, described by the station as a "no-holds barred review of the past seven days around the world."[5] The end of this programme was announced in March 2012 in common with the dropping of all the non-sport elements of its schedule[6] at the beginning of April.
talkRADIO
Galloway began to broadcast on
Sputnik
The show was cancelled by talkRADIO on 3 June 2019 following an allegedly anti-Semitic
Following the cancellation, the show moved to
References
- ^ "George Galloway". talkradio.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
- ^ Arifa Akbar "George Galloway: Top cat of the talk shows", The Independent, 27 August 2007
- ^ Simon Rocker "George Galloway rapped by Ofcom for radio show", The Jewish Chronicle, 25 June 2009
- ^ "George Galloway – 'The Mother of All Talk Shows'". Spidered News. 27 March 2010. Retrieved 28 March 2010.
- ^ "The Week with George Galloway official site". Talksport. August 2010.
- ^ Plunkett, John (7 March 2012). "TalkSport to axe all non-sports content". The Guardian.
- ^ Oakes, Omar (8 February 2016). "UTV names George Galloway and Paul Ross among TalkRadio presenters". Campaign Live. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
- ^ Smith, Mikey; Bloom, Dan (3 June 2019). "George Galloway sacked by talkRADIO in Tottenham Hotspur anti-Semitism row". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-05-08.