The hotly tipped new Men’s Hour programme on Radio 5 Live sounds so 21st century.
The hotly tipped new Men’s Hour programme on Radio 5 Live sounds so 21st century. Its presenter Tim Samuels promises a potent mix of emotional candour (inspired by Tony Soprano’s sessions on the couch) combined with, and I quote, ‘the intelligence’ of Woman’s Hour. So are women at long last truly going to be credited with thinking power and talent while male idols such as Jamie Cullum and José Mourinho are to provide merely therapeutic gravitas? I wish. Read the prospective programme contents, produced by a team from BBC 6 Music, and the seven-part ‘pilot’ could have come straight out of the naughty Nineties, a sort of Men Behaving Badly crossed with Top Gear or an early edition of Loaded magazine. Testicles, sexual power and hypochondria have all been given top billing, with a token woman being allowed on each week to speak her mind (starting off with Jenni Murray of WH).
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