Jenni Murray RIP

[Niminy]

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

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04kcj90/player

I had forgotten to add this.

https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/tribute-jenni-murray-hollow-harriet-harman-phmh3c5b5

Janice Turner takes Harriet Harman to task in the Times.

Nicely put Janice. Great bit of context.

Thanhs, but has anyone got a share token or can archive this? No subscription!

Put it into the search function of https://www.archive.ph and see what you get.

For you
https://www.thetimes.com/article/0d8a1421-6c11-4eca-ab0f-03d9efae6a20?shareToken=06ae7410f82cf63328151a9472f5e58e&ver=article

Thank you very much, love the 'sniffing reflected glory in a battle won' comment, so true!

I noticed Zoe Williams wrote a piece in the Guardian praising Jenni. No mention of why she left WH, of course. Fuck off Zoe, you have no idea what the word feminism even means.

That's really galling. ZW has been hopeless on trans stuff and IIRC very quick to smear women who shared Jenni's views as bigots/idiots/reactionaries.

They've just broadcast JM's "official" Radio 4 obituary on Last Word. For some reason they announced that they'd be providing one that was more about her as a person rather than in terms of her career. Odd choice, I don't recall them having done this for any other subject before.

What this meant was that, unsurprisingly, a key part of her career at the BBC, how it ended, was not referred to at all.

Orwell modelled the Ministry of Truth in 1984 on the BBC.

It was both misogynistic and cowardly.

Presenter doesn't dare to actually look at what she achieved and fought for (unlike the other people covered), or the role of the BBC in cancelling her, because that would involve a difficult subject.

So hey, let's concentrate on how she drank wine with her mate and her son's comments on her driving an expensive car.