Jenni Murray RIP

Just after 08:35

What time was this on R4?

Harriet Harman managing to be disapproving and dismissive of Jenni’s GC stance even while eulogising her.

Thank you Jenni for being an utter trailblazer

Thoughts for her family and friends. Part of the best of BBC radio, and those who wish to emasculate or destroy the BBC should remember that.

Tribute on R4 now

So sad. Like others I stopped listening to WH when she left. RIP Jenni what a a wonderful woman and champion for women’s voices she was .

Loved Jenni Murray, particularly on WH, you know, when it was about women.
Saw her in a panel discussion at FiLiA, she was given the most amazing standing ovation.

Thank you Jenni, for fighting the good fight and sticking to your principles, even at great personal cost.

I'm reading her memoir about weight and she seems very affectionate about both of her sons. It seems her husband took on more of the parenting as she was the breadwinner, but she stills seems to have been very involved with them.

I am sad she’s died. Condolences to her family and all who knew and loved her. She was awesome.

Ah, so sad. RIP.

So sad to read this news. She was a bloody legend.

WH has not been the same without her.

RIP and thankyou for standing up for women in the face of overwhelming pressure to go with the trans flow 💪

Looking back over the late 80s and into the 90s she was part of a very high class Radio 4.
I remember Brian Redhead, Sue MacGregor and Jenni Murray contributed to that high standard in different programs. As others have said WH changed producers declined rapidly, then she left.

At times her pro women stance appeared as anti-men. Did she really cope well with giving birth to a boy, an enemy?

💐RIP like so many she was the one the one who got me into womens hour and as a young mum I thought she was wonderful. I fell away listening after Emma Barnet left. So frustrating that Woman’s Hour no longer knows what a woman is!

I read her Mail column a couple of weeks ago. She was always very open about her health issues and didn't mention any pressing ones. She'd been taking a weight loss drug but I think she'd had a period off it as she was worried it was affecting her eyesight. I may have misremembered this though.

I loved her voice. It was like being stroked.
It was so soothing, empathic...yet she stayed loyal to robust and strong standpoints.

I'm so, so sorry she has gone and hope she slipped away peacefully, surrounded by her loved ones.

RIP Jenni Murray, I won't be able to listen to Women's Hour without thinking of you.

Her last column for the Mail was only published a couple of weeks ago – she was always so wise and full of good sense, which is precisely what WH (and the wider BBc) misses now. It feels as if there’s real affection in several of the tribute pieces – the Mail one, as you’d expect. And this one from The Telegraph does not dodge the trans issue, unlike the BBC – disgraceful trans dodgers to the end: archive.ph/kEMRw

Her memoir is a lovely read.

Sad news. RIP.

I'm so sad. She was only 75. It's disgraceful she had to deal with the TRA crap in her last 10 years.
It's also sad because she'd suffered severe health issues partly due to her weight (which her mother bullied her for all her life) and was beginning to improve these a lot with Mountjaro last year. She seemed really optimistic about it.

In her honour, I think people should read A History of Britain in 21 Women.

Gutted. What a fantastic brave clever & funny woman she was.
Thank you Jenni 💐

So sad, RIP

Thank you Jenni!

This is such sad news ... what an absolute legend!

// Jenni signing off from Woman's Hour ...

Perhaps her family didn't want to release the information earlier, and why should they be obliged to?