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Hadley Freeman on Woman's Hour shortly

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RoyalCorgi · 05/12/2022 09:49

Talking about why she left the Guardian!

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fvx6

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ArabellaScott · 05/12/2022 14:26

'why aren't trans people on for balance'

What they mean is that a woman shouldn't be allowed to talk without males being given oversight.

CaveMum · 05/12/2022 14:17

Excellent interview! I don’t agree with HF and her take on Woody Allen, but this I am behind her 100%

WarriorN · 05/12/2022 14:11

Twitter is full of "oh she left a newspaper and reckons she's be cancelled while being on national radio..."

None of them have listened.

Feel like a transcript is needed to quote what was said in this stonking interview.

Sally Hines is v upset. Bless.

loislovesstewie · 05/12/2022 14:07

The Guardian might actually try aiming for some balance.I think that hope might be in vain though. And actually think that women's rights matter to women.

Birdsweepsin · 05/12/2022 14:04

Question: what could the Guardian do now to get me/us/women generally back?

JulesJules · 05/12/2022 13:58

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picklemewalnuts · 05/12/2022 13:54

Listening now! What an opening.

WarriorN · 05/12/2022 13:44

"We will talk again I'm sure..." Emma says at the end, looking forward to it!

She got sooooo much into such a short space of time. Well done Hadley!

nauticant · 05/12/2022 13:39

But bear in mind that if the BBC sends a copyright notice, youtube will take it down immediately.

waterwitch · 05/12/2022 13:36

Does anyone know if it’s possible to archive this interview whilst it’s still available?

DameMaud · 05/12/2022 13:35

I'm remembering now the Woman's hour Twitter thread in the summer where they were inundated with suggestions for all the forbidden feminists and GC writers...

maltravers · 05/12/2022 13:35

It was interesting to me that Hadley wasn’t going to be deflected into using up her slot talking about anti-semitism in the Labour Party, as invited by EB, (a battle hopefully at least partly won?) when she had a chance at last to speak to the nation about the issues with GI (so much to do). I’m sure she feels passionately about both.

AmaryllisNightAndDay · 05/12/2022 13:34

At first I was worried Hadley Freeman got it wrong when she said the Guardian hadn't reviewed either Kathleen Stock or Helen Joyce's books because there was a review of both on the website but the review was actually in the Observer not the Guardian.

DameMaud · 05/12/2022 13:31

That was so worth the wait! Thank you Emma for having Hadley on and giving her free reign to let it all out.
All those years of frustration and disbelief when listening to woman's hour/reading the guardian- cathartically released in 15 minutes. Hadley managed to pack so much in to that short space of time.

The paranoia that it might get pulled isn't surprising with all that's come before. I still almost can't believe this happened this morning! Great start to the week.

Be interesting if Kath Viner does accept the invitation....

ArabellaScott · 05/12/2022 13:29

nauticant · 05/12/2022 10:17

HF: it's been happening all over, in the UK and elsewhere, and including at Woman's Hour.

💚💟💜

ErrolTheDragon · 05/12/2022 13:21

YetAnotherSpartacus · 05/12/2022 13:16

Emma sounded a bit nervous at the point of the discussion about Jenni Murray!

I though she'd have rather that wasn't raised because she pretty much had to defend the 'bbc interviewers shouldn't have an opinion' line (which in general is a good thing) but it's something that she's all too aware constrains her personally.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 05/12/2022 13:16

Emma sounded a bit nervous at the point of the discussion about Jenni Murray!

Beowulfa · 05/12/2022 13:10

I imagine there's quite a big crossover between Guardian readers and R4 listeners, many of whom will have not been properly aware of this issue. Until now.

Imagine how gleefully your average Guardian writer would have sunk their teeth into a tip-off that the Mail had told a black columnist they couldn't mention race at all.

discographical · 05/12/2022 13:03

go Hadley!

BreadInCaptivity · 05/12/2022 13:01

Just caught up.

Excellent from HF.

I wonder if LOJ will be moved to comment?

Sazzasez · 05/12/2022 13:00

Interested about the “outside body” coming in & laying into HF in her absence.

This is what Stonewall did with Garden Court Chambers over Alison Bailey.

CaveMum · 05/12/2022 12:56

DameMaud · 05/12/2022 12:51

It's up!

Huzzah! I knew that would happen, the universe always likes to make me look incompetent by doing stuff like that just after I’ve commented on it 🤣

DameMaud · 05/12/2022 12:51

It's up!

DameHelena · 05/12/2022 12:50

nauticant · 05/12/2022 10:12

HF saying that a very senior Guardian bod said, explicitly: You are not allowed to write about gender. I do not want women to be writing about gender.

This was in front of witnesses.

Except of course women CAN write about gender when it's, say, Zoe Williams trying to trip up Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

DameMaud · 05/12/2022 12:48

CaveMum · 05/12/2022 12:47

I’m still waiting on Sounds to be updated too!

Yes! It def is taking longer than normal. I'll be soooo annoyed if they do pull it/edit it

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