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Woman's hour today

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BYOSnowman · 12/02/2016 10:17

Jenny interviewing camilla from kids co

It's sounding like a reputation rehabilitation exercise to me at the moment!

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BYOSnowman · 12/02/2016 10:27

I don't find her very believable

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AvaCrowder · 12/02/2016 10:52

I would have liked Jenni to have asked more follow up questions, perhaps more on the governance.

I didn't realize it was pre recorded until afterwards, then it made more sense.

CB irritated me. She sounded so condescending.

BYOSnowman · 12/02/2016 10:56

She seemed to just accept the stories at face value

Why on earth would champneys accept a psychotic individual who is a danger to others?

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AvaCrowder · 12/02/2016 11:35

That Champneys example summed it up. It wouldn't have stood up to scrutiny. It wasn't scrutinized.

I felt that she fudged issues 'protecting clients privacy'

And the designer trainers really annoyed me. I've seen children being targeted for their designer trainers, rather than the lack of them.

HildaFlorence · 12/02/2016 11:43

I had to turn this off I was so incensed at this women being given more airtime, just ridiculous and it was a huge proportion of the programme .I was never a fan anyway and always thought she was a massive self publicist and that there was something fishy but to give her even more airtime seems wholly inappropriate , no doubt the'll be an edited version on weekend womens hour as well.

BYOSnowman · 12/02/2016 12:39

I am amazed the bbc did this as they basically gave her half an hour of self publicity with no real challenge

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BoreOfWhabylon · 12/02/2016 14:49

I really thought she just dug her own grave in the interview.

Astonishing levels af arrogance and self-delusion.

BYOSnowman · 12/02/2016 14:52

Yes - but people who don't know much probably would have taken what she said at face value

I'm shocked the bbc gave her the platform. If I was on Twitter I would have tweeted!!

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polyhymnia · 12/02/2016 14:52

Yes, agree up to a point but I did think it worked in that CB totally condemned herself out of her own mouth with her refusal to live in the real world or accept that anything she had done was wrong, her insistence it was all a wicked media conspiracy, etc.
I emerged with my negative views very much reinforced and I'd be surprised if other listeners didn't react in the same way.

gooseberryroolz · 12/02/2016 14:54

It was quite a soft interview.

I'm very much on the fence about CB. I think a lot of innovators ARE quite quirky and dictatorial with little time for rules and convention.

Batmam · 12/02/2016 14:55

She should be a politician, I nearly fell for her bullshit

BYOSnowman · 12/02/2016 17:33

Yes! It sounded very rehearsed

And she throws numbers around without seeming to understand how shocking they are

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Marchate · 12/02/2016 19:21

JM always takes the high profile interviews when she can. I don't think she likes Jane Garvey. When they co-present I believe I hear the concealed jealousy in her voice. Maybe I'm imagining it

Batmam · 12/02/2016 20:08

I feel that too Marchate, Jenni Murray often comes across as more than a little bit smug/patronising. On the other hand I love Jane Garvey's presenting style, least smug person in the world yet calls people up on their bullshit

wickedwaterwitch · 12/02/2016 20:13

I caught the last 5 minutes of it

I can't believe Camilla Batshitcrazy is being given so much airtime tbh

AvaCrowder · 12/02/2016 20:22

I will listen out for that now Marchate

I think that they have done this in the name of being unbiased.

BYOSnowman · 12/02/2016 20:23

Unbiased and because a very influential (ex) bbc man wants rehabilitation

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Stickerrocks · 12/02/2016 21:33

Hello BYOS, thanks for linking to this one. I listened to see if Camilla could dig herself out of the holes from the TV doc and I think she actually made things worse. I don't think JM mentioned the lady with the flat the charity paid for on the grounds that she was an asylum seeker for many years. I had hoped she would follow that one up. Some of the stats Camilla quoted must have been made up.

I was pleased to hear that the Charity Commission is finally investigating. I think the ICAEW should review the audit files of the firm which gave them a clean audit report for years to see how robust their audit work actually was or whether they were taken in by the Cult of Camilla too.

Batmam · 12/02/2016 21:37

But they should have also put someone on from the other point of view to counter the sensational stories of individual kids and the crazy numbers she was banding about instead of leaving it to the presenter who naturally wasn't involved enough to know all of the facts. Unless I've missed such a previous programme, today seemed very biased in Camila's favour

gonegrey56 · 12/02/2016 21:37

JM was very disappointing and did not challenge CB at all, allowing her to simply put her own deluded spin on everything ....JG would have given CB a much tougher ride.

BYOSnowman · 12/02/2016 21:40

Jg has a great 'incredulous' voice when someone is bullshitting

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FannyGlum · 12/02/2016 21:41

I really like Jane Garvey. Does anyone remember the old woman's hour message boards? People used to slate her on there, but I much prefer her to JM.

HopeClearwater · 12/02/2016 22:58

I remember those WH message boards. People didn't like JG when she came over from 5 Live but she's a much better interviewer. JM just asks a series of questions and doesn't probe further. Also, she was surprisingly poor as a team member on the celebrity University Challenge series.

Marchate · 13/02/2016 00:22

Years ago JM was on You & Yours, which I have always hated. I drifted away from WH when she took over. When JG started I enjoyed it again

Smug is correct. Dame Murray, still spelling her name like a 1980s schoolgirl - sorry to anyone else who uses the name!!

Trojanhorsebox · 13/02/2016 00:24

I would have liked to have heard her be challenged by someone with real knowledge in the field and real numbers - all this talk of "research" that hasn't actually been peer reviewed or published. Child protection social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists could surely give a view on the sort of practices she described.

JM did challenge her a bit, but fairly halfheartedly, and this had the effect of allowing her to prattle on in a more and more delusional way - maybe that was the point? Give her enough rope to hang herself?