Bank of Lights

Bank Of Lights

Simon Lederman is a radio presenter in the UK. He presents a Saturday morning breakfast show with JoAnne Good and the Simon Lederman show on BBC London 94.9 Monday to Thursday 10pm-1am.

He is also a regular presenter of the weekday breakfast show behind Paul Ross, weekday Drivetime behind Eddie Nestor, and the weekday Vanessa Feltz phone-in on the same station.

He stands in for Robert as presenter of the Robert Elms programme and for many years he was also a regular contributor to the show, each week taking listeners on an audio bus tour of London, with Lederman describing the areas of London which specific London bus routes travelled through. For this reason he gained two titles: The Bus Biographer and The Route Master.

Some listeners gave him the nickname Captain Lentil due to his sometimes liberal views and he is still referred to as Captain or The Lentilist by some phone-in callers. He also presented the BBC Three Counties Radio breakfast show until June 2012.

In 2013, Miranda Sawyer, reviewing Lederman's show in the Sunday Observer newspaper, called him 'an upbeat ranter who forces you to have an opinion on news stories just through the tone of his voice' and that at least one other show 'needs some of what Lederman is drinking.'

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