To be sad about Jane Garvey

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As if it wasn't bad enough that Jenni Murray announced her retirement from Woman's Hour, now Jane Garvey is leaving too.
I adore Jane - she's fiercely intelligent, hugely funny, empathetic and down to earth.
I'd give a kidney to be her friend and am going to miss her warmth, humour and incisiveness massively.

I will really miss JG and JM and feel worried about why they left. I'll give
Emma a try though. I'm afraid I agree about Lauren Laverne. I don't listen anymore. I don't like any interviewer who talks over people. I'm looking at you too Evan Davies.

Probably too busy, but Jess Phillips would be a excellent guest presenter.

Also, Sarah Millican - her "Standard Issue" podcast is brilliant.

Am gutted Emma Barnett will be leaving Radio 5, I like listening to her every morning and who knows who will replace her. I already can’t listen to the afternoon show as I loath the presenter. On the bright side I may be more productive I guess.

Some presenters such as Marisela Fostrup have moved to Times Radio

Barnett is much too good for WH. Then again, maybe she'll revitalise WH. Agree Jess Phillips would make WH interesting!

I like Emma Barnett. I think I may even prefer her to Jane Garvey so I’m very much looking forward to the change. It’s Jenni Murray I’m really going to miss - I hope they find an occasional presenter to fill the role of wise older woman that JM came to embody.

I find Emma Barnett’s style of presenting to be very confrontational. She comes across as rather annoyed by everyone. Hopefully she’ll feel less like she has to be an attack-dog on WH.

And she is very left-wing. But then they all are now at the BBC.

I haven’t listened much for ages - got so sick of their seeming obsession with cancer, and other earnest, worthy and depressing topics.

I once bought a Joanna Trollope novel purely because on about the first page the main character switched off her car radio - because it was WH banging on about cancer yet again! I identified with her 100%.

I see that the new main presenter is much younger, only in her 20s, so I dare say this is the Beeb once again desperate to attract the ‘yoof’ audience, since they’re afraid of all the old faithfuls dying off.

What they don’t seem to realise is that people’s tastes do change, and the radio station you loved at 18 may well be quite different from your favourite at 41.

It remains to be seen whether the new presenter will be strictly instructed to sound super-bright and perky, while dropping every second T, in order to sound more ordinary/common/edgy, however you like to put it.

As are apparently so many Beeb presenters nowadays.

I see that the new main presenter is much younger, only in her 20s

EB is not in her 20s. Not checked but assuming late 30s / early 40s. Agree it could have been a lot worse.

And I wonder if Naga will take over EB's slot on 5Live?

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And she is very left-wing. But then they all are now at the BBC.

Are you for real? She was an absolute Rottweiler with Corbyn, she made Andrew Neil look like a lamb.

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I haven’t listened much for ages - got so sick of their seeming obsession with cancer, and other earnest, worthy and depressing topics.

I once bought a Joanna Trollope novel purely because on about the first page the main character switched off her car radio - because it was WH banging on about cancer yet again! I identified with her 100%.

I see that the new main presenter is much younger, only in her 20s, so I dare say this is the Beeb once again desperate to attract the ‘yoof’ audience, since they’re afraid of all the old faithfuls dying off.

What they don’t seem to realise is that people’s tastes do change, and the radio station you loved at 18 may well be quite different from your favourite at 41.

It remains to be seen whether the new presenter will be strictly instructed to sound super-bright and perky, while dropping every second T, in order to sound more ordinary/common/edgy, however you like to put it.

As are apparently so many Beeb presenters nowadays.

Have you even heard of Emma Barnett? She's not in her 20s, nothing to do with a 'yoof' audience, not 'perky' and manages to enunciate perfectly competently, all while presenting Newsnight. She is actually a very experienced journalist and her interview with Corbyn was exemplary.

Who?

I see that the new main presenter is much younger, only in her 20s

Emma Barnett is 35

Emma will fill JMs shoes, in that her style is very journalistic/interrogatory, whereas JG is much more conversational, which I prefer. But it could have been worse.

I need to listen to today's WH again, as I only caught a few seconds of the decluttering feature.

I think that it is a good move for JG but she's very much a big sister in my mind, so I'll miss her.

very left-wing. But then they all are now at the BBC

Except Nick Robinson (former President of the Conservative Party youth group). Peter Allen, who Jane Garvey mentioned on air is (or was anyway) a member of Tory Party. Oh, and Andrew Neil who was a Thatcherite spin doctor. Matthew Parris & Edwina Currie & Portillo who are ex-Tory MPs. And...

The older I get the less I enjoy R4!

The older I get the less I enjoy R4
Why, are you changing or the progs?
I've listened since 1983 (first baby born) - I love the informative stuff-- more or less (statistics), thinking allowed (social science), farming prog (just 15 mins but can be interesting), the media show (great up to date inrerviews), Nick Robinson's friendli-ish interviews with politicians (Arlene Fosters Dad was shot one night when he went out to shut the animals in - he managed to crawl to the house and survived), a good read (random books chosen, not just newly published), inside science etc etc
I skip the news /women's hour - I want to be entertained, not throw myself off a cliff.

Well, Jenni Murray was 37 when she started presenting WH.

I have never assumed that Laura Kuennsburg is left-wing.

Love random R4 shows but listen to Zoe Ball in the morning now. This is the fault of the news, not the Today progamme.