Stephen Faragher
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Liverpool lunchtime radio, loose and local.
THE NEW DAILY CROISSANT is a daily Liverpool community radio chat show with rotating voices, local stories, music, and paper-review conversation. It moves easily from Grand National talk and charity investigations to family lunches, student loan worries, and a rap track from CJ Music.
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THE NEW DAILY CROISSANT is a daily Liverpool community radio programme with a loose, social rhythm. It is not slick, and that is part of its character. Rotating voices move through newspaper stories, local concerns, music, sport, and ordinary-life chat with the ease of people already known to one another. The show can start from a headline and end up at a cracked studio window, a service-station joke, or a memory from the weekend. Liverpool is the centre of gravity. Aintree, local charities, community radio fundraising, station programmes, and familiar station material keep pulling the conversation back home. National and international politics still arrive at the table, especially when Donald Trump, the Constitution, tariffs, or the 25th Amendment are in the news. The treatment is conversational rather than formal. One voice reads, another reacts, someone corrects a name, and the topic moves on before it becomes too heavy. That same pattern shapes the show's local-news segments. A Charity Commission investigation into a Liverpool charity, repayment demands on healthcare students, and the death of horses around Grand National week all receive serious attention without changing the whole temperature of the programme. There is room for discomfort. There is also room for a joke about feeling like goldfish when people look into the studio. Music appears as part of the community mix, including CJ Music's track about judgement, persistence, family, and wanting to leave a legacy. The show also has a strong everyday streak. Afternoon tea with a mum in Manchester, Easter chocolate, bowling costs, public toilets, and motorhome weather all become usable radio. Its best moments come when the voices are simply thinking aloud together, turning a clipped news item into a local conversation. The repeated sponsorship and Club 100 material are part of the station furniture, but the core appeal is the unscripted middle section where people talk, mishear, laugh, and carry on. It suits listeners who want Liverpool community texture rather than a tightly produced magazine show. It also suits anyone who likes regional radio with sports chatter, civic concern, music discovery, and family-life digressions. THE NEW DAILY CROISSANT is ordinary in the productive sense: close to the pavement, full of names and places, and comfortable letting the day wander.
Made for: For listeners who enjoy warm regional radio, Liverpool references, community stories, racing chat, local music, and conversational news reaction. It especially suits people who prefer human texture over polished studio packaging.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the live, volunteer-station feel: headlines, local music, family anecdotes, Aintree talk, and studio interruptions all share the same table. Similar shows may sound neater, but this one feels more locally inhabited.
Daily Live Programme from Liverpool Community Radio with Guests local music and News
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Local tracks gain texture from the loose, personable Liverpool conversations that surround them.
THE NEW DAILY CROISSANT lets music arrive inside the everyday traffic of Liverpool life. Conversation moves freely from family stories and weekend plans to politics and community concerns, then makes room for a track without turning the transition into a ceremony.
Liverpool lunchtime chat can take you from local tracks to Trump before the coffee cools.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose Liverpool Community Radio hour that blends music, local pride, and fundraising with DIY charm.
The New Daily Croissant feels like a Liverpool Community Radio hour held together by volunteers, fundraising appeals, and plain habit. It moves through station support, a sponsor read, music, multilingual greetings, and local pride with the easy looseness of a community show…
A warm local radio hour where fundraising, chat, and news share the same easy rhythm.
The New Daily Croissant feels like community radio that is happy to stay unpolished. It keeps its attention on LCR Club 100, station support, and the easy back-and-forth between presenters, so the appeal lands in plain language rather than presentation.
Local radio chat, racing talk, and a warm, slightly scrappy conversational rhythm.
This Daily Croissant leans on familiar local radio comforts: a Club 100 appeal, a long run of horse racing talk, and the loose back and forth that lets the banter take over.
Community radio chatter, constitutional unease, and a very Liverpool sort of wind-down.
The Daily Croissant opens with sponsor reads, a push for LCR Club 100, and a nod to the 30 local volunteers keeping Liverpool Community Radio going.
A grounded community-radio episode where student finance, station business and an untidy sign-off share the same mic.
The New Daily Croissant works best as community radio in motion: part student-finance report, part station bulletin, part handoff to the next show.
A loose, local chat that finds warmth in ordinary complaints and everyday details.
The episode shifts between station business and a casual community radio exchange about climate change, Easter eggs, and the price of chocolate. Its tone stays relaxed and conversational, with small exchanges about vegan eggs, shrinking sizes, and paying more for less.
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.
A volunteer-run lunch programme folds a listener appeal into loose, local conversation.
A community radio lunchtime slot becomes a plain appeal for LCR Club 100, with Steve Farragher laying out how listeners can help Liverpool Community Radio.
Chicago critics DeRogatis and Kot pair new-album reviews with deep dives into records like Rumours.
Billboard's Keith Caulfield and Katie Atkinson break down the week's Hot 100 and 200 charts.
Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson trace viral internet stories from Reddit threads to courtrooms.
Chris Black and Jason Stewart riff on fashion, food, and celebrity culture three times weekly.
The episode opens with sponsor copy and a Club 100 appeal.
Today's New Daily Croissant opens with Steve Farragher explaining LCR Club 100, a plainspoken fundraiser built around small monthly support and a few simple perks.
The show opens with a sponsor message and a pitch for LCR Club 100.
This episode introduces LCR Club 100, a way for listeners to support Liverpool Community Radio, which produces various programs run by local volunteers.
This episode introduces the LCR Club 100, a way for listeners to support Liverpool Community Radio, which produces various programmes like the Daily Croissant with local volunteers.
Trump talk takes over the conversation.
Students still get the rough end.
A daily live community radio show from Liverpool featuring local news, music, and guest interviews, with a segment promoting the station's supporter club.
A daily live community radio show from Liverpool featuring local music, guests, and news, with a promotional segment for a listener support club.
A daily live community radio show from Liverpool that includes local news, music, and guest interviews, with this episode promoting a listener support program.
A daily live community radio show from Liverpool featuring local news, music, and guests, with a segment promoting the station's supporter club.
A daily live community radio show from Liverpool featuring local news, music, and guest interviews, with sponsorship segments.
Easter eggs get a proper going over.
Phones on trains set things rolling.
A countdown drifts into movie chat.
Kevin gets a warm send-off.
Diego Garcia turns into the worry point.
A silly dance move takes over the room.
Lockdown memories take over the table.
Dominic is off to the UK.
The licence fee gets a long, slightly messy airing.
Yoko Ono Centre gets the nod.
A doorstep parcel turns into a proper little telling-off.
Old-school soul opens the door.
This episode introduces the LCR Club 100 donation program to support Liverpool Community Radio.
A daily live community radio show from Liverpool featuring local news, music, and guests, with sponsor messages and club promotions.
A daily live community radio show from Liverpool featuring local news, music, and guests, with a segment promoting the station's supporter club.
This episode introduces the LCR Club 100 donation program to support Liverpool Community Radio.
A daily live community radio show featuring local music, guests, and news, sponsored by SBW Law.
A daily live community radio show from Liverpool featuring local news, music, and guests, with a sponsorship segment.
A daily live radio show from Liverpool Community Radio featuring local music, guests, and news, hosted by Roly Joke.
A daily live community radio show from Liverpool featuring local music, guests, and news, sponsored by SBW Law.
A funding appeal from Liverpool Community Radio, highlighting the station's volunteer-driven programming and need for financial support to continue broadcasting.
A daily live community radio show that opens with a sponsored segment promoting FICO score checking and credit monitoring services.
A daily live community radio program from Liverpool featuring local news, music, and guests, with a sponsorship segment.
A daily live community radio show featuring local music, news, and guest interviews from Liverpool.
A daily live community radio show featuring local music, news, and guest interviews, sponsored by SBW Law.
A daily live community radio show featuring local music, news, and guests, sponsored by a law firm.
A daily live community radio show from Liverpool featuring local music, guests, and news, sponsored by SBW Law.
This episode discusses the challenges Poole Community Radio faces with funding and grants while highlighting its volunteer-driven programming and sponsorship from SBW Law.
The transcript opens with The New Daily Croissant being sponsored by SBW Law, followed by Rolly Joke Man saying it is the Tuesday edition and naming a stacked lineup.
This episode discusses the challenges faced by Liverpool Community Radio in securing funding and grants to maintain its volunteer-run operations.
This episode discusses the challenges of funding a community radio station run by volunteers, sponsored by SBW Law.
This episode discusses the challenges faced by Poole Community Radio in securing funding and grants to sustain its volunteer-run programming.