Jenni Murray

3 days ago | dailymail.co.uk | Jenni Murray

It may have been a little bit of luck but, primarily, it was good management. I religiously took the Pill until I actually wanted to become pregnant, so I never had to face the decision of whether or not to abort an unwanted foetus. There were, of course, occasions at university when I worried the Pill might have failed; my period would be late and I would spend the most agonising sleepless nights in a panic, longing for the sign that all was well. I don't think any man can comprehend that fear.

1 week ago | dailymail.co.uk | Jenni Murray

I have not spent three quarters of my long life working to protect women from sexual and domestic violence to now approve Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s proposal to free rapists and abusers out on to the streets to ease the overcrowding of prisons. No.I’ve been there, admittedly a very long time ago, but my experience of a rapist when I was a student and my fear of reporting him to the police angers me to this day.

1 week ago | saga.co.uk | Jenni Murray

When I joined Facebook in 2006, I recall being horrified to discover its bizarre insistence that you could have hundreds of "friends". It seemed the very concept debased the meaning of the word. It was ridiculous to assume you could have a huge number of Facebook friends. Followers maybe, but real friendship is something more precious. It tells me I now have 107 friends.

2 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Jenni Murray

When I was pregnant with my second son, I was a presenter on Radio 4’s Today programme. I was on a freelance contract with no concessions to one’s personal life and knew full well maternity leave was out of the question. This was June 1987, in the midst of a hard-fought election campaign. I managed to persuade the Tory MP Norman Tebbit I was unlikely to go into labour during our interview and wouldn’t require his assistance in childbirth, although he assured me he had lots of experience.

3 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | Jenni Murray

Three cheers for the organisers of the Cannes Film Festival which kicked off this week. They have imposed a ban on nudity on the red carpet which presumably means we won’t be subjected to the barely-there dressing which has bordered on the obscene in recent years. It was the embarrassing sight of Bianca Censori at the Grammys earlier this year that made me think this just can’t go on. She wore a completely see-through mini dress with nothing underneath, which made her appear completely naked.