Jenni Murray RIP

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Former BBC Woman's Hour presenter Dame Jenni Murray dies at 75 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwj8e25ddgo

Such sad news. Mealy mouthed BBC tributes just enraging. RIP and condolences to family and friends.

A lovely obituary in the Times

https://www.thetimes.com/article/586c7218-65cd-4618-ae5c-7e2800abe0e4?shareToken=ea447dec79cb73a004e07117a6bba498&ver=article

Such sad news. She was a real trailblazer. A brilliant broadcaster.

Why do you assume it must have been very sudden?

Guttted. Disgusted to read the celebrations over on Reddit's transgenderuk - showing their true colours..

Omg I am so shocked to hear this. I was only reading an article by her in a magazine a few days agoo where she was talking about her various health problems.

RIP 💐 🌹

Yes,I thought this was a bit odd too.

So very sad to hear this, loved listening to her on Womans Hour. She always put women first. Thank you Jenni.

I've just googled it and it says she died on the 12th March! 8 days ago! How come it's only just gone public?

I adored her - her menopause book was actually pretty good for the decade it was written in (my mum had it!) and she also wrote a book about being mum to boys which I think was actually worth reading too. But for me, like the rest of us, she was the voice of WH. For well over half of my life, and I'm someone who grew up with R4 on in the kitchen/parents' room ALL the time. Her voice had something of the timbre of my mum's voice and when I was a child/teenager, and later at university, I found listening to WH quite comforting because of that.

Jenni was about 6 years younger than my mum (who's still with me) which is sobering.

RIP Jenni. I'm so glad you were able to be that niggling voice, the thorn in the side of the stupid ideologues who wrote you off as an old dinosaur. You had the last roar! 💐

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

Thank you Jenni!

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

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

So sad, RIP

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

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.

Sad news. RIP.

Her memoir is a lovely read.

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

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.

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.

💐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!

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

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

WH has not been the same without her.