Every weekday morning I’m up and ready to receive an important email that comes in at 6.30am. The email is sent by the producer of Nick Ferrari’s breakfast show on LBC, and it contains an initial plan for the stories that I’ll discuss with Nick on air exactly an hour later. It’s a slick routine and I enjoy my 7 minutes of breakfast broadcasting.

However, on the morning of 21 March my alarm clock failed and I woke up about ten minutes before I was due to go on air. After leaping into a shirt I checked my emails to discover that the plan for that........

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