Who is this left-leaning BBC presenter?

[darmstadt]

I am sitting in a BBC Green Room. It’s school holidays, and I have no one to baby-sit Isabella, aged 6, so I bring her along to my interview. The programme presenter, well known for her liberal views, pops in: “Hullo – your daughter?” she smiles at Izzy. I nod, yes. The presenter looks at me: “State or private?”

'Private, picked her up on holiday in Africa.'

[Tarquin Farquhar]

But you would though.... wouldn't you?

My God, it's like a sort of Godwin's Law of discussing women....

[Mich the Tester]

But you would though.... wouldn't you?

She's not my type. She annoys me with that air of 'virginal good little moral girl'. Really not all that interesting. yes I would

[wurzel]

Not at all, no, but Raworth has never seemed very lefty to me. Much more like a rather irritating little girls' school goody two shoes.

But you would though.... wouldn't you?

[Mich the Tester]

So was Charlie Whelan. Doesn't stop him from left-leaning...

Not at all, no, but Raworth has never seemed very lefty to me. Much more like a rather irritating little girls' school goody two shoes.

[Moscow Mule]

Privately educated.

So was Charlie Whelan. Doesn't stop him from left-leaning...

[Mich the Tester]

My money is on Sophie Raworth.

Privately educated.

[wurzel]

Surely it would be career threatening for a newsreader to become publicly known as supporting a particular cause?

My money is on Sophie Raworth.

Don't think she's necessarily a newsreader. Could be on the radio. I initially thought Joan Bakewell but she's more old school liberal & not as likely to say something so crass.

[Moscow Mule]

Surely it would be career threatening for a newsreader to become publicly known as supporting a particular cause?

My money is on Sophie Raworth.

[wurzel]

Though the BBC is often slated for its left wing bias, I have to confess that I am hard pushed to think of a single female presenter who is "well known for her liberal views".

[cojak]

And I'm bet you make the nanny walk to the school gates, as well...

[dang65]

Excellent. I'm going to start asking that whenever I meet anyone else's kids.

It's true what they point out though, that a lot of people who send their kids to independent schools do it by "making sacrifices" (i.e. the slightly melodramatic term for having less holidays and a cheaper car). I've got kids at both comprehensive and independent school, and the posh cars and clothes you see at the comprehensive school parents' evenings are in a different league to the old bangers and rags at the independent school. (Of course, we have to have two different cars and different outfits to wear so that we fit in at both places. It's terribly complicated.)

[wurzel]

Can't believe the stupidity of this...

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I am sitting in a BBC Green Room. It’s school holidays, and I have no one to baby-sit Isabella, aged 6, so I bring her along to my interview. The programme presenter, well known for her liberal views, pops in: “Hullo – your daughter?” she smiles at Izzy. I nod, yes. The presenter looks at me: “State or private?”