In a week where the news has been filled with stories about a certain ‘strong woman’, Kate Chisholm has found another strong woman to write about. In this week’s radio column, she argues that the radio presenter Sue MacGregor managed to be the only female presenter on the Today programme without the need to deepen her voice or worry about power dressing or pussy-bow blouses. Like Thatcher however, MacGregor ‘has always done things her way’, and her radio programme The Reunion is a prime example of this. In this week’s episode, MacGregor unites five survivors of the King’s Cross fire; here’s a clip:
This week’s television review comes from James Delingpole, and in addition to Martin Durkin’s tribute to Margaret Thatcher, he’s also watched another tribute – this time one from A.N. Wilson on Josiah Wedgwood. Far from being ‘just’ a potter, he was ‘a revolutionary in the Thatcher mould’, announces Delingpole – because he gave the middle classes exactly what they wanted.
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