BBC Lancashire radio presenter Graham Liver brutally blasts listener's 'rude line' live on air (and viewers label it 'legendary!'

A BBC Lancashire radio presenter has hit back at a listener who sent a text message to complain about his show.

Graham Liver, 47, presents the station's morning breakfast show every weekday from 6am to 10am.

Before 9:30 this morning, the broadcaster read out a text message from an unimpressed listener.

The anonymous listener wrote: 'You're getting boring, your producer can't come up with anything new.'

Earlier in the show the team had discussed how a Lancashire resident will appear in the upcoming series of The Apprentice, which the listener also took issue with.

They then claimed: 'What's more, the man from Chorley isn't the first person from Lancashire to star in The Apprentice. A guy named Adam started working on it in the late 1990s.”

The popular BBC series first aired in Britain in 2005 and not in the 1990s as the listener claimed.

They continued, “You need to do more research instead of talking about what you did this weekend or what you're going to do in the next few days.”

They ended the message with the addition: 'Rant over. Thank you. Don't be so campy.'

After reading the message, Graham paused for a moment before hitting back with: “Oh, you b****.”

In the background, his colleagues can be heard laughing hysterically at the surprise outburst.

Before Graham bursts into laughter himself, he adds, “What do you mean?”

Afterwards, Graham then shared the audio clip with his 12,000 followers on X. Along with some love heart emojis, he jokingly captioned the clip: “Good morning.”

Afterwards, the BBC Lancashire radio presenter posted the clip to X, formerly known as Twitter, with the caption: 'Good morning'

The video has been viewed more than 145,000 times so far, and users have been quick to praise Graham's 'legendary' reaction.

One replied: 'Bravo Graham!'

Another added: 'As a fellow radio presenter, is it fair to say the B-word now that it's been said on the BBC? This made my morning!'

Plus, it also caught the attention of TV critic Scott Bryan, who shared the clip with his 115,000 followers and wrote, “What a way to respond to an angry texter.”

Meanwhile, other viewers were furious on Graham's behalf, pointing out that the listener was wrong about their claims about The Apprentice.

One supporter said: 'Aside from anything else the student wasn't there in the 1990s.'

The clip also caught the attention of TV critic Scott Bryan, who shared it with his 115,000 followers and wrote, “What a way to respond to an angry texter.”

“And the texter is wrong because The Apprentice certainly didn't exist in the late 90s,” said another.

The BBC's editorial guidelines state: 'The use of strong language must be editorially justified, and identified where necessary, to ensure that it meets audience expectations wherever it occurs.

“Strong language is most likely to cause offense when it is used gratuitously and without editorial purpose, and when appropriate.”

The broadcaster then defines profanity as “sexual epithets, terms of racist or ethical abuse, terms of sexual and sexist abuse or abuse referring to sexuality or gender identity, pejorative terms relating to illness or disability, or casual or derogatory use of sacred names or religious words and especially in combination with other coarse language.'

Although 'b****' is considered profanity, it does not appear to be defined as a curse word within these guidelines.