Women attack Radio 2 boss over pay gap

♦ A declaration from Lewis Carnie, boss of Radio 2, that “there’s no gender pay issue here,” has been met with scorn from female BBC staff.

“On a per show basis, it [the pay gap] doesn’t exist,” he told the Evening Standard, “and the idea that gender in any way would reflect what anyone is paid here at Radio 2 is ludicrous.”

But Jane Garvey, Woman’s Hour presenter, tweeted: “No gender pay gap at Radio 2, so that’s all right then. And a daily line-up of white middleaged men. That must be all right too.”

And Libby Purves, former Midweek presenter, said the “magic” was in the production, not presenter. “You may be Graham Norton but, you know what, I go to the Edinburgh Fringe and there’s lots of Graham Nortons,” she said.