Jenni Murray

4 days ago | saga.co.uk | Jenni Murray

Dame Barbara Cartland told me, many years ago, as I was approaching my 40th birthday: "My dear, after 40, a woman has to choose between her face and her figure. My advice is keep a lovely, plump pretty face and stay sitting down". Lady Antonia Fraser said much the same; French film star Catherine Deneuve placed the advice ten years earlier and was a little blunter: "A 30-year-old woman must choose between her bottom and her face" – derrière and visage.

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

My dad often told me how hard school was for him. He was considered thick and always made to sit at the back of the class. He never passed any tests and was advised to leave school at 14 and just get a job. Yet he was a bright man, who went on to enjoy a successful career and a happy home life. The reason for the sluggish start? Deafness that went undiagnosed for more than 40 years. No one thought to have his hearing tested when he was a child.

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

I can't count the number of times over the many years we've been together that my husband has said: 'I think you love those dogs more than you love me.' I've never said: 'Of course, you're right.'That would be too upsetting for him, but there's been many an occasion when I've thought it. It's always encouraging to find your own theories, outlandish though they may seem, are backed by science. So I was delighted to read research by economists at the University of Kent on the power of pet ownership.

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

There is no doubt that Lucy Connolly did a very stupid, very offensive thing in the heat of her upset after Axel Rudakubana attacked girls at a dance class in Southport last July. Here’s what the Northampton childminder and wife of a Tory councillor tweeted: ‘Mass deportation now; set fire to all the f***ing hotels full of the bastards for all I care, while you’re at it take the treacherous government and politicians with them.

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

I’ve always been a keen swimmer, taught by my dad as a very young girl in the sea at Scarborough. I swam for school and I still go regularly to the pool to exercise my poor back after last year’s accident which broke a vertebra. I chose the pool I use carefully. The changing areas are separate and clearly marked male and female. I would not attend a pool where men, women, boys and girls have to change together in a mixed changing area.