BACK amongst friends.

Jun 18 2024 13 ep. 59 mins 5

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Ian Jones is a lawyer - doesn’t make him a bad person - and invites guests from the world of transport and law to BACK the truck up and fill in the BACKground of their personal journey.

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Paul Lynch - Managing Director London at Stagecoach Bus

Jun 18 2024 102 mins

This time on BACK amongst friends, Ian Jones interveiws Paul Lynch, Manging Director London at Stagecoach Bus and the 2024 president of the Confederation of Passenger Transport. Starting as a graduate trainee with London Buses in 1984, Paul was promoted through a series of garage management roles in East London. By the time Stagecoach bought East London in 1994 he was District Oper

& daughter!

Nov 09 2021 36 mins

From sibling quarrels to inheritance infighting the sky television series “ Succession “ is the penthouse of dramas far above ordinary family mayhem. The award-winning show does not imagine what could go wrong in family empires it plasters together what has gone wrong in case after case of real life melodrama and applies a glorious gloss of word play and satire. The farce makes

BACK in the wrong trousers with Sandi Toksvig

Apr 27 2021 72 mins

Back in 1984 we were introduced to Beverly Hills Cop an American buddy cop action comedy film starring Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, a street-smart Detroit cop who visits Beverly Hills to solve the murder of his best friend. The film shot Murphy to international stardom. It was an immediate blockbuster, receiving critical acclaim and was the highest-grossing film released in 1984 . T

BACK & beyond in Namibia.

Mar 19 2021 74 mins

Hello, darkness, my old friend.I've come to talk with you again “ are the opening lyrics to the sound of silence - the theme tune to the graduate written and sung by Paul Simon. This week we go BACK and forth with an old friend to many transport operators and he explains how he experienced complete darkness whilst driving a hgv through the deserts of Namibia. If you can connect S

BACK the bus up!

Mar 15 2021 62 mins

The word Apricity appears to have entered our language BACK in 1623, when Henry Cockeram recorded (or possibly invented) it for his dictionary. It means the warmth of a yellow sun in winter. Despite the fact that it is a delightful word for a delightful thing it never quite caught on, and will not be found in any modern dictionary aside from the Oxford English Dictionary. That’s

BACK in Monaco?

Mar 01 2021 35 mins

Princess Stéphanie of Monaco,Countess of Polignac is the youngest child of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and the American actress Grace Kelly. She is the younger sister of Albert II, Prince of Monaco, and Is Currently 14th in the line of succession to the Monegasque throne, she has been a singer, swimwear designer and fashion model. But what does she know about defending an emplo

Women Torque BACK

Feb 21 2021 65 mins

This week’s guest is not the first ever female transport lawyer but she’s in the first three. She is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court and 101 years ago she was not even allowed to be a solicitor. Indeed in 1913 the Law Society refused to allow four women to sit the Law Society examinations. The Court of Appeal upheld this ruling that women were not "persons" within the meaning

BACK on Deansgate

Dec 17 2020 48 mins

BACK in 1953 Marilyn Monroe sang Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend in the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Libby Pritchard - a legally blonde litigator - at Backhouse Jones is presently a Diamond’s best friend as she sparkled whilst representing Diamond buses NW at a recent Judicial Review and ensured that Deansgate in Manchester was opened up to buses after being closed by Manchest

BACK in the USSR

Dec 03 2020 55 mins

“A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we’ll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That’s harder than it sounds.” So said the American journalist Bill Kurtis. In the haulage industry this privileg

The power in the BACK office.

Dec 02 2020 70 mins

It was all very well for Rudyard Kipling to bang on about “treating triumph and disaster just the same” but he did not have to return to the clerks room after the High Court rejecting his submissions as raising no arguable point of law. So said David Pannick QC in his Tales of Unimpressive Advocates . But in this podcast we hear from the clerks room itself which is the powerful