Jane Garvey, the newest presenter of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, famously complained that the station had a "massively middle class bent" with too many "middle-class ladies talking about cookery". Middle class or not, the station's famously sensitive listeners appear to like her, after weekday morning BBC Radio 4 show enjoyed a record weekly reach of 3.08 million listeners and its best audience share. No word yet, though, on how all those shows featuring middle-class ladies doing the cooking performed. We'll let you know when we do.
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