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''The Mother of All Talk Shows'' was a British talk radio show hosted by the politician George Galloway on talkSPORT, a British commercial radio station owned by UTV, between March 2006 and March 2010. The programme aired each Friday and Saturday night between 10pm and 1am. ==Outline== 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. Billed as ''The Mother of All Talk Shows'', Galloway decided to begin every broadcast with the theme from the ''Top Cat'' cartoon series,〔Arifa Akbar ("George Galloway: Top cat of the talk shows" ), ''The Independent'', 27 August 2007〕 followed by an extemporary monologue by Galloway, dealing primarily with political issues, economics, international relations, political philosophy, and other topical issues. The title refers to Galloway's 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 "if you think you’re hard enough." In June 2009, the broadcasting regulator Ofcom said that several of Galloway's Talksport programme between November 2008 and January 2009 had broken its guidelines by moving away from a debating format "to campaign on a major matter of controversy", because Galloway had called on listeners to join demonstrations against Israel because of the 2008–9 Gaza War. Ofgom though rejected complaints that the programmes concerned had failed to observe its impartiality rules.〔Simon Rocker ("George Galloway rapped by Ofcom for radio show" ), ''The Jewish Chronicle'', 25 June 2009〕 Galloway stopped presenting the show on 27 March 2010, due to campaign commitments in the 2010 UK General Election. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Mother of All Talk Shows」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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