Piddington debate anchors UKLIVE's Friday broadcast

Will Geddes joins Mike Graham, with a Greg Smith Newsnight extract bringing local infrastructure concerns into the discussion.

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UKLIVE | The Mike Graham Show | Paul Cox & Friends | Lee & Lembit Live | Friday 13th November 2026

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2:51Graham opens with Microsoft email delays and welcomes security expert Will Geddes.
7:35The discussion turns to proposed asylum accommodation at a former military site near Piddington.
11:17A Newsnight extract shows Greg Smith questioning the proposed site's facilities and logistics.
12:31Graham and Geddes question the infrastructure work and costs needed to prepare the facility.

Mike Graham opens Friday's programme with an everyday frustration: the Microsoft email outage has been holding things up. Security expert Will Geddes is beside him, and the conversation soon moves from delayed messages to government travel and asylum accommodation.

Piddington supplies the morning's central discussion. Graham and Geddes criticise plans to house asylum seekers at a former military site near the Oxfordshire village, then play a Newsnight extract in which Conservative MP Greg Smith questions the site's facilities and logistics. Back in the studio, the pair focus on the infrastructure and expense involved in making it ready.

The full Friday broadcast, which also includes Paul Cox & Friends and Lee & Lembit Live, drew nearly 89,000 views in its opening 13 hours. It is both the week's most-watched new upload and the channel's busiest video right now. The broadcast includes a paid partnership with TallyMoney.

Across a week of 22 uploads, the shorter conversations offered several routes into the schedule. Paul Burgess's electricity-grid discussion attracted the next-largest audience among the new releases, while Russell Quirk's Wethersfield and Piddington interview carries the next-strongest viewing momentum. Paul Cox & Friends also made room for comedy: its question-and-answer session with "Angela Rayner" and "Sadiq Khan" features impersonations, not the politicians themselves.

UKLIVE gained about 1,000 subscribers over the week. Daily views are now well above their usual level, though that describes the present burst rather than the whole seven days. Among similarly sized political-commentary channels, Jay Black and The Mark Dolan Show also had substantial weeks. For UKLIVE, the full Friday schedule is currently drawing more viewing activity than any individual extract.

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