Victoria Smith on Start the Week bbc radio 4

[WarriorN]

Was dipping in and out thinking, this sounds a fab listen; when is it going to spiral into queer stupidity, but it didn't.

Then I notice Victoria Smith was one of the guests

I need to actually listen to it properly now!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbcradioo_fourfm?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Not currently available to listen to, will be later.

Thanks will have a listen.

Listening now, just happened upon it - she’s being very clear and calmly explaining 👍🏻 The interviewer has an edge to her voice, though

And now woman's hour has a discussion around something to do with single sex spaces.

What's going on...

My mistake, was listening to Eleanor Frances on Woman’s Hour !

The embarrassment of riches confused me ! Eleanor Frances was a senior civil servant who had just received a settlement. Worth an ( unconfused !) listen

Oops, I didn't see this thread ignore the other one I just started

Start the Week is repeated tonight at 9 till 9 45.

From 9am to 11 am as far as I can tell it was only women on air, and a fair percentage were women who openly understand what a woman is.

I hope that's going to become the trend and not just a tick box exercise "there, we've lumped them all onto a cold rainy morning in February, Tick bbc balance achieved."

Blink and you miss it springs to mind...

The start the week discussion is really vital.

Especially when discussing the opinions of younger men right now. Tate etc

I love the pregnant pause after the American woman says something about the 'rhetoric is "protect women from trans people"' (aka be kind to trans women) and they move swiftly onto Victoria and the issues of #BeKind 😆

Thanks for these tipoffs, a good morning on R4.

VS's dinosaur T-shirt got a mention, especially in relation to the "be kind" etc t-shirts for girls 🤮

It was good.

Interesting listen. I also loved the moment when Emilia Callaci says she is troubled by the message from the right: we must protect girls from...immigrants... from trans people...and that this weaponising against more vulnerable populations must be robustly fought against in feminism (sorry paraphrase). Almost an intake of breath and then the presenter hurriedly says 'lets move on' to Victoria Smith's book! Brilliant exposition of the different attitudes to trans ideology among some Democrat feminists to those among many UK feminists. Worth the listen for that alone! I wonder what they all talked about after the show.

I think the interviewer had an edge to her voice because Emilia Callaci made it clear she thought transpeople more vulnerable than women - there is an audible gasp when she reveals this about 27 mins in.

Emilia Callaci did not understand the dinosaur's import.

I know this is totally off topic, but where can I find a dinosaur sweatshirt/T-shirt?