Whingeing women on the radio are such a turn-off!

(By the WOMEN who listen to them)

stance should not be allowed in my view. I suspect there are many like-minded people around who regretfully don’t have a voice on these matters. But if we all switch the radio off, perhaps the management will get the message! JANIS ROBERTS, Oxfordshire.

MR LIDDLE DIDN’T GO FAR ENOUGH

WRITIng as a woman, Rod liddle’s article regarding women on Radio 4 was spot on but did not go nearly far enough. In my 20s, I listened to Radio 4 on a regular daily basis as it was interesting, informative, unbiased, funny and very entertaining.

now, in my 50s, I cannot bear to listen to the puerile, boring, politically correct dramas nor to the worthy but incredibly dull Woman’s Hour, Book Programme and Poetry Please programme among many others.

so much young ‘talent’ wasted on deadly dull programming.

The majority of worthwhile listening is based on long-running programmes such as Desert Island Discs, Just A Minute and what is left of Thought For The Day. I expect to hear of their demise almost daily.

In addition, almost every time I am foolish enough to switch on, the programme is about music in some way — as if we didn’t already have Radio 3 and wall-to-wall music channels! JILL MILARD, via email.

I SHOUT AT DRIVEL THEY BROADCAST

As USUAL, Rod is spot on. I have found myself shouting with frustration at some of the drivel broadcast on Radio 4 and during Woman’s Hour in particular. Woman’s Hour is so bad I’ve stopped listening. Full of whingers and moaners and the permanently offended and stuffed with left- wing propaganda. It’s patronising, sycophantic, repetitive, dull and boring. SUSAN SPENCER, via email.

HERE’S WHAT THE CHAPS THINK...

I WAs a broadcaster on television and radio all my life, including seven years on staff at the BBC, mainly as a producer, and I think there’s been a marked decline in many ways.

Presenters now — and 90 per cent are female — are often not clear speakers and sometimes break all the rules that I was given when I worked for the BBC.

They often gabble and drop their voices at the end of sentences so you can’t understand what they’re saying. some don’t know how to read a script, speak in a monotone and sometimes mispronounce words. standards have fallen.

On start The Week on Monday, we had an extraordinary scene with an elderly man being questioned about his prostate cancer by two women.

We even had a woman discussing the English team in Russia. We should now have not a Woman’s Hour but a Man’s Hour. BERNARD KEEFFE, London. I THOUGHT it was just me. And it’s not just about Radio 4 but the whole of the media spectrum. Woman’s Hour, when it was between 2pm and 3pm, used to entertain and inform me as a youngster in my formative years.

In recent times I have often wondered if female listeners would be able to survive the hour without being tempted to go out and commit mass suicide, such is the doom and gloom.

Men are pilloried and, if they are not to blame for all female ills, it’s the government’s fault.

The BBC’s political coverage, such as the Daily Politics programme, has become the equivalent of ITV’s loose Women with the occasional token male.

Question Time is another example of where the BBC is steadily losing its audience because of its insistence in giving females a dominant part; they are generally lightweight, one-grievance participants. What they seem unable to do is debate, therefore the whole programme descends into a shrieking match.

given that over the years we have had so many fine women journalists, presenters and commentators, I wonder if this “Me Too” mentality and feminist agenda has got out of hand. It certainly is doing women no favours. ANTHONY MARSH, Ipswich.