Janey was a brilliant storyteller who embodied the stoic nature of Glasgow, offering audiences a very honest window into how she processed sometimes traumatic and sometimes hilarious stories from her life.
Her stories were raw and truthful, both devastating and uplifting, very often in the same sentence; and all shot through with her sharp wit and ability to bring characters to life.
She has inspired many - not least all of us at BBC Radio 4 - with her instinct to always make people laugh in the face of darkness, bringing both dignity and empowerment to those different aspects of herself.
Janey was entering a new exciting phase of her career, and she has gone too soon. But what a life. It’s her daughter Ashley and Janey’s husband who we are thinking of at this time. The team at Radio 4 send them our love and we will raise a glass to Janey’s legacy which lives on in her work.
Janey Godley, 1961-2024
- Julia McKenzie, Commissioning Editor
🚨As Conservative MP’s again complain about the early release of prisoners I’m sure they will be reminded
1. Early release was a Tory policy too - infact the conservatives released 10,000 prisoners early to ease the jail capacity crisis. How quickly they forget..
2. Just one month before the election was called the body representing 95% of prison governors in England & Wales were warning jails would run out of space within days putting the public at risk.
3. A week before he called the election Rishi Sunak was warned by senior civil servants that he was at risk of breaching his legal responsibilities if he failed to take action over the prison overcrowding crisis. They may have a short memory but I don’t
What we are seeing in our prisons is the result of fourteen years of neglect, inaction and underfunding by successive Conservative governments - AND THEY KNOW IT
Who TF bombs a hospital?
Sick children on UV drips
Burned alive in their hospital beds
I just cannot believe what we’re seeing
I knew there was evil in the world
I just never knew how much
My heart is broken.
Dear #TrevorPhillips
Can you interview Michelle Mone, Rishi Sunak and Matt Hancock and ask them where the bloody money is? £Bns spaffed and 'procured' by the Tories, and not one person held accountable.
cc: #BBCLauraK
Boris Johnson has crawled out of the woodwork to join Nigel Farage in saying the UK needs a referendum on ECHR membership
If UK media is going to give him a platform to spout this boll**** it’s
up to all of us to call it out. RT this if you agree
Can Tories STOP talking like they suddenly care about pensioners. For years you knew the state pension was barely enough to live. When energy bills soared you were happy to let them keep warm in libraries and on buses, yet here you are talking like you give a shit. SHUT UP.
However much you oppose only giving the winter fuel allowance to those on pension credit, pause to gasp at jaw-dropping hypocrisy of Tory crocodile tears in the Commons today: no tears when Osborne cut benefits for the very poorest children by £37bn
You know I don’t like some of the choices Labour have made. But the right absolutely losing their tiny minds over the winter fuel allowance is pretty ironic. None of them said anything about pensioners sitting in libraries or on buses to stay warm the last few years. Or did you forget how Tories allowed energy bills to get so high some pensioners did die when they couldn’t keep the heating on.
13O+ Covid contracts worth £15Bn considered “of concern” by Transparency International
£4Bn went to companies linked to the Tory Party
Dozens of companies were less than 100 days old when receiving your money
Calling it a scandal doesn’t do it justice
Calling it criminal does
Compromise is a wonderful settler. Many pensioners do not need the fuel allowance. Many do. The outcry is the bar is too low. Just adjust the mechanism. Be seen to listen to public opinon, be reasonable and modify the equation. Win all round! @RachelReevesMP@Keir_Starmer
King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £125m a year tax free from the tax payer and has an estate worth £22bn that’s never taxed.
But he still needed a 45% pay rise.
Like if he needs a pay cut.
RT if you want the Monarchy gone.
#NotmyKing#AbolishTheMonarchy
🚨If you think Robert Jenrick is wrong about leaving the ECHR please RT
If we want to avoid a dangerous chain of events which could one day see Britain joining Russia & Belarus as only European countries outside ECHR we need to constantly call out this insane Drumbeat to leave
Tory leadership favorite Robert Jenrick is touring UK News Shows telling viewers “we should leave the ECHR & replace it with a British Bill of Rights”
This argument is going to come up a lot in the coming months & years. I explain in this film why it’s A VERY BAD IDEA!
The Daily Mail readership has dropped 32%, people are saying they will be bankrupt before 2030 because no-one wants to advertise in them.
I'm sure that if we RT we can bring their downfall sooner, and GB News too.
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