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Alan Partridge should replace Jenni Murray on Woman's Hour

10 October 2020

9:00 AM

10 October 2020

9:00 AM

From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast

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Woman’s Hour

BBC Radio 4

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In the week Jenni Murray left Woman’s Hour, I was listening to Alan Partridge on his new podcast, From the Oasthouse, and imagining what he might have been like as her successor. As I chuckled through half a dozen episodes of awkward Norfolk frippery, it occurred to me that, short of taking him on, the BBC could do wonders for its reputation in the wake of Murray’s departure by taking a leaf out of the Partridge playbook.

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