313:"Crowned 'Britain's answer to Frasier Crane' by Men's Health magazine, Phillip Hodson has written advice columns for the Daily Star, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, She, Cosmopolitan and Woman's Journal as well as hosting The Phillip Hodson Hour on LBC for 15 years. 'It's hard work and you open yourself up to a lot of people who are very needy and a lot of people who are actually quite mad,' he says. His career has been dogged by 'sexism in Fleet Street' and 'aggressive, egocentric male publishers' who see men as news reporters and want a woman writing the agony pages. Hodson was sacked by Piers Morgan from the News of the World, where he was asked to write more about sex but wasn't allowed to write about homosexuality, and was replaced by actress Diana Dors at the Star. He's currently spokesperson for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and would return to writing if the price was right, as he thinks the field is still suffering from a lack of men. 'I think I've been a pioneer.' But, he says, 'My bust just wasn't big enough.'"
277:"There is, as there doubtless has to be, quality material in the Going Live! mix. Perhaps the most important of the interactive elements is Growing Pains, the nine-minute slot when Agony Uncle Phillip Hodson answers letters from troubled youngsters. He deals with divorce, bereavement, anorexia, the betrayal of friends and unrequited love in the classroom in a straightforward, if necessarily sketchy way – always urging that the child confides in a trusted adult. But Hodson is a professional who knows exactly how to address his audience..."
224:"Phillip Hodson has contributed more to the British therapy boom than anyone. For 15 years, with clear, concise, psychotherapy broadcast live on LBC, he has destroyed the myths and stigma that often surround therapy. In the past two years, his listeners have doubled and now they will increase further. In response to his success, his airtime has doubled, from one hour to two, four times a week".
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211:"No station is more identified with phone-ins than LBC. This is where Phillip Hodson pioneered sex therapy on air, Brian Hayes perfected the art of cutting off callers in their prime, and the late Peter Cook – for reasons we can only guess at - pretended to be Sven, a Norwegian fisherman living in Swiss Cottage, over a period of four years". Paul Donovan, Radio Critic,
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