Thanks for the link to today's interviewee - hah at the typical BBC scruff in the accompanying photo.
There's such a lot to say about Woman's Hour and its presenters - I hope Jenni Murray never deigns to darken its doors again. She played her part in going along with the business of lists of women for awards etc but was crushed for speaking out as a woman, silenced, disillusioned and effectively forced out despite her eminence in broadcasting and long service to women.
Didn't care for those cookery items on Woman's Hour and, like others, can't stand Anita Rani's wittering. Nor am I an admirer of Emma Barnett with her hectoring of interviewees but there we are.
I don't see this move by the BBC being as a result of the Nolan programme so much as the fact that the BBC's regulator, Ofcom. had left the Stonewall programme out of concern about bias and impartiality. That left the Stonewall BBC exposed and in a precarious position. It wasn't the BBC's leadership or initiative but a defensive and self-protective step forced on them. No praise to them for that or for making themselves the tool of minority pressure groups at the expense of women.
The elephant in the room is why does the BBC, with its public funding, numerous HR and other directors of policy and management, all paid in the hundreds of thousands, have to be taken to employment tribunals by women to get equal pay or have to pay a lobbying organisation like Stonewall to tell it how to implement legal rights and practices for its staff? Staff includes women, which they seemed to forget, yet again, in their rush into the embrace of Stonewall on its trans mission. I look forward to hearing they've revised their style manual and glossary of terms which was apparently dictated to them by Stonewall, which they deny, of course.