Too much change, too fast. Jane Garvey is leaving Woman's Hour at the end of the year. The programme loses it's most welcoming and engaging host in its 74-year history.
One hopes she was offered daily presentation, with the parallel departure of Dame Jenni Murray. One suspects she turned it down as too much of a treadmill, leaving insufficient time for fun. Is there more change in the air ? Is Controller Mo so woke that "Woman's" is insufficiently inclusive as an adjective for a modern Radio 4 Hour ? Has BBC Audio done the sums, and worked out that one presenter across 5 days is cheaper and easier to run ? Might there be a cheaper-still two-hour magazine show starting at 10 ? Who will emerge to cover Jenni's shifts from 1st October - and will that person get the full gig in the New Year ? Are there just too many unanswered questions ?
Jane keeps co-hosting the Fortunately weekly podcast with Fi Glover, thought to be in the top 10 of Sounds offering on a fairly regularly basis. And apparently she'll host a new interview show on Radio 4 in the new financial year.
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