Dame Jenni Murray: Former BBC Woman’s Hour host dies at 75

Dame Jenni Murray: Former BBC Woman’s Hour host dies at 75

Vintage Murray moments from the present included a confrontation with Mrs Thatcher about her childcare insurance policies, a flirtatious interview with actor Jack Nicholson, difficult Edwina Currie about her affair with John Major, and asking Hillary Clinton how she may forgive her husband Bill’s infidelity. Other highlights throughout her 33 years included an interview together…

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The Delusions by Jenni Fagan review – an afterlife of queues and bureaucracy | Books

The Delusions by Jenni Fagan review – an afterlife of queues and bureaucracy | Books

Jenni Fagan’s satirical fifth novel, The Delusions, opens with an epigraph from the Kurt Vonnegut-inspired science fiction curiosity Venus on the Half-Shell by Philip José Farmer. “The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.” The afterthought leaks again into the unique assertion, underpinning and undermining every thing. Infinity and eternity are each unavoidably current in…

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