PERSON: James O’Brien

LBC

Radio Host

James O’Brien (born 1972) is a British journalist, writer, and presenter on radio and television. Since 2004, he has hosted a weekday morning phone-in discussion for talk station LBC. He has also presented podcasts, been an occasional presenter for BBC’s Newsnight, and published several non-fiction books, including the bestselling How They Broke Britain in 2023.

James O’Brien was born in 1972 to a teenage single mother whose name he knows but whom he has never tried to contact. He grew up in Kidderminster after being adopted at the age of 28 days by Jim O’Brien, a journalist on the Doncaster Evening News (who later joined The Daily Telegraph) and his wife. O’Brien was raised in the Roman Catholic faith and refers to himself as a Christian.

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