Hadley Freeman on Woman's Hour shortly

Wow. Hadley pulled no punches at all there. Barnett didn't give her an easy ride. The Guardian should be ashamed of censoring women journalists like that.

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

Hadley went in all guns blazing from the start! Impressive!!

I love sunlight. And brave women.

Still not available on Sounds - I don't remember it usually taking this long?!

That was a great interview - she got so many points in. You can tell what a fantastic job she’s done looking into all this, and then to be told repeatedly she can’t write about it in the newspaper she’s always known and believed in … it just confirms so much. I am relieved to hear there have been journalists like Hadley (and there’s a couple of others still there that I look out for) who tried and tried again to have the Guardian publish this. And the others who were forced out like Suzanne Moore of course.

Thank you so much Hadley. Keep going. It’s working.

That's a familiar trick on Woman's Hour. When she said it, I thought to myself I bet she won't read any out.

Thanks @WarriorN and @nauticant .
It's still not up on BBC sounds.
Will fill in the impatience with the times one.
God, I got a surge if adrenaline with this! Xx

Maybe there are so many they'll have a segment in a later show, I think WH sometimes does that.

Devastating there from fast talking journalist exposing all that the Guardian did to stop her and indeed women, from writing about important issues of our time particularly for women and girls. I had no idea Hadley Freeman was so sharp and deadly. Huge cheers for the bull's eye, Hadley: The BBC and Woman's Hour. What went on at the Guardian with their special staff and lobby groups is strikingly similar to the BBC. Emma Barnett is no Jenni Murray and her weak protestations about interviewing a few women rely on thin stuff indeed. Did Woman's Hour cover Cass and its immense significance while it was being discussed and having repercussions elsewhere? I waited in vain for that while she spent months of the programme prioritising party politics and dramas, following the BBC agenda rather than women's interests. Laughable that she mentions BBC presenters not being allowed to have opinions.

Apparently according to to EB there were loads of responses…I assumed at least one would be read , but no. Why not?!

I don't think he's getting quite the response he anticipated: archive.ph/XCJKT

I often now listen on my phone (thru radio) so I can rewind anything I need to listen more carefully to

@DameMaud I could listen again as the programme was still live on air. I was listening on my phone as missed the start - I could rewind it at 10:59 and listen again.

At 11:00 it's impossible for an hour or so (I have to do this a lot!)

Although I will add that the fireworks are in the WH interview rather than in the much shorter Times Radio one.

For anyone waiting to hear the WH interview, there's this interview of HF yesterday on Times Radio:

www.thetimes.co.uk/radio/show/20221204-12809/2022-12-04

Go to 53 minutes for where HF starts.

Worried they'll pull it...

Nah, always takes ages.

Graun!

Ground has been a bin fire for years, hard to see a way back for it now.

I think that the Guardian used to invite people to see the whole picture. It's not happening now.

That's a good point. Didn't the advertising slogan used to be 'free thinkers welcome'

'Free thinkers cancelled' is more apt now.

I liked Emma's interview style. Asking whether Kath Viner should still be in post worked well because Hadley had been able to clarify that in her early days at The Guardian, she'd been able to write about virtually anything. Listeners could then join the dots for themselves as to why that changed.

A HF bashing gathering instigates by external lobbying groups and people was held at the Guardian when she was away on business and this was withheld from her and when she learned about it HR said that it would cause trouble to make any statement.

This bit shocked me even now. A few ýears ago she was able to write some (roughly speaking) gc pieces. When she was in America for work a trans org came in to train guardian staff. The trainer waved 2 articles by hf as examples of transphobia. After that things changed towards her but she was never told about it. Someone who was there told her 9 months later.

My god. It's even worse than I'd imagined.

I read the Guardian from the age of 13 for well over 40 years. I stopped reading when they started to censor on these subjects. I am politically homeless and also unable to read a paper that I feel reflects my politics and beliefs. Pretty rubbish situation.

Thanks Nauticant
(I have to wait an hour!!!! Worried they'll pull it...)