The world is not right: Jane Garvey

has left Radio 5 Live’s Drive show. For years Jane and her ‘miserable git’ sidekick Peter Allen have hosted one of the best news shows on radio. She is a bright, articulate, irreverant, funny, razor sharp broadcaster, a model interviewer with one of those lovely alto female voices the BBC use so well. When she and Peter Allen hosted the show together, I felt that all was right with the world. Dismayed to find her leaving, I sent an email in to the show, which was used in the editor’s farewell blog post about her here. (”Glue her to the chair. Offer her more money.”) They didn’t use the bit where I threatened to bury any managers who might have brought about her demise under my patio. She’s off to pastures posh and new: Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4, a recognition of her talent, but weekdays 4-7pm just won’t be the same again.

The BBC: when its good, it’s very, very good.   And that’s mostly BBC Radio.