to be addicted to woman's hour on Radio 4?

[HistoryMad]

I usually catch up on woman's hour using their podcasts. Don't you think it is one of the best programmes (ever)? And am I the only one who is a bit addicted?

I love it too! I listen to it every day on my phone when I get home from work. I thnk Radio 4 produces some right shite sometimes, but Woman's Hour is great.

I don’t know which presenter it is, but one of them has a really irritating drawling voice. She kind of mumbles and sounds quite depressed.

No problem at all sludge - sadly, either fits

YANBU and I miss it. 😭

The women who present are awful. Have to switch them off. Grating is not the word. Argh

Totally love it. Early 40s. A breath of fresh air. And I love Jenni M's presenting style but I might have a crush on her...!

Oddmollie

I've been listening to the podcast for years - I like the range of topics they cover. I'm not in the UK so any political bias tends to wash over me I think, it certainly doesn't annoy me. I think they have covered changes in the pension age & issues for carers quite well recently.

I like Jane & can tolerate Jenni, except when she's eating whatever the guest cooked & tries to talk through it, but I tend to switch off Emma Barnett. I find her voice annoying & it always seems she's trying too hard to be cool. I find Jane hilarious - I recently discovered the Fortunately podcast with Jane & Fi Glover & I really like it.

Jane G - yes I love her too. She is on another radio show which I go be on the radio 4 iPlayer but can't remember what it's called.

There was a parenting radio show on radio 4 From time to time... pretty good.

Re - Emma Barnett. God, I find her appalling and vacuous. Her articles for newspapers were always dreadful and now she's on TV and radio the obvious gaps in her basic intelligence and awareness of the world and issues is even worse.

Like Jane. Switch off if it's Jenni.
Don't deliberately listen to it but it's often informative.
I think the whole idea is a bit sexist.

The Fortunately podcast! That's it! Love it. Except when Jane G tries to do impersonations what's that all about?

I often burst out laughing to the podcast. I could spend a happy weekend listening to them all back to back... just pottering and baking. (And avoiding work!)

Not sure who Emma is, will have to listen more frequently.

I must be a bit fick,FlowerPot, because I really like Emma Barnett,especially on the morning programme on 5 Live (I went off WH).

Her basic intelligence, awareness of the world (big topic that)and 'ishoos' seem ok to me. Moreover,I find her a breath of fresh air. Rather like Jane Garvey was on 5 Live.Less so now.

FlowerPot - Jenni M may come across as slightly biased but she gets my vote. It would be wrong and weird if she was completely unsympathetic to, for ex, anorexic woman gets zero mental health support, etc...

I think Jenni M has a comforting and motherly tone. As someone with a very unmaternal mum - I like it.

Agree that a 'men's hour' might seem odd initially. As a concept - woman's hour being sexist doesn't chime with me... I think it's more a reflection of society today. Counting myself in that part-time self-employed mother of school-aged kids who listens to R4 whenever possible. If the schedule happens to say Woman's hour - it's a bonus.

I learn a lot from it. I also love You and Yours and enjoy listening to both those presenters in particular - great voices!

A friend of mine raved about it so I listened in. They were speaking about bridesmaid dresses. It was shallow and dull and just awful. I said to my friend how bad it was and she said I must have got a bad day, to try again. When I did it was something equally insufferable, although I've blanked out the memory now. I've avoided it ever since, though my friend still claims I was unlucky.

Jenny the Fortunately podcasts are great!

I find Jenny’s interview style sounds like she’s reading a list of prepared questions off a piece of paper. She doesn’t seem to respond, react to or engage with what the guests are actually saying...often there doesn’t seem to be a segue from what the guest has just said to what Jenny next says.

Jane on the other hand seems to be listening and respond specifically to what her guests are saying. I find her much more natural....

Love it.
But the concept of 'women's hour' like ''femail' in the - ahem- Daily Rag that my parents took when I was a child always made me think - are women not allowed to listen for the other 23 hours / read the rest of the paper ???:)

I'm bloody glad the craft prize is over though. What a boring old load of shit that was.

Oh yes - the craft prize. The least radio-appropriate material ever.

They do mention the relevance question every now and again, and whether it actually does women a disservice to have a special programme, but I'm glad that it has stayed. I get what you mean Basseting but I don't think issues like sex in long-term relationships or women's body image or female hair loss would find air time elsewhere.

keenoonvino I totally agree about JM's non-engagement/response. I particularly noticed it the other day - can't remember which interview it was but it sounded really jarring and abrupt!

The craft prize - yes - just hopeless for radio! It made for good listening bit it went on toooooo long imho.

Not dead keen on the drama serial - it feels too separate from the rest of the programme!

Yes, hate the craft prize - not a fan of the power list either

They did a programme about moving on from failed fertility treatment, which I was keen to hear having been in that situation myself, and then allowed the phone in section to be dominated by people who’d had successful treatment saying “don’t give up, don’t give up”. It was awful. I complained but got no response other than an acknowledgement.