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Gabby Logan studied politics and law at Durham University before going into broadcasting
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Gabby Logan studied politics and law at Durham University before going into broadcasting
EXCERPT … “I suppose I’m like a lot of people my age – I’m the mother of two young children who is worried about the world we live in and how this country is evolving and how we are going to look in 15 years’ time. When you have children you worry about legacy.” But when it’s put to her that 5 Live is criticised for being too masculine in tone, she rejects this as “a lame argument” and reels off the names of other female presenters on the network.
Then she launches into a tirade in defence of working mums, developing an argument made by fellow broadcasting mother Kirsty Young. “It’s a very middle-class thing to talk about giving up work for your kids,” she says. “My mum worked, my granny worked, my dad’s mum had six jobs. They didn’t have careers, they had jobs because they had to work, not because they chose to work. My dad spent most of his time alone because his mum was working in offices cleaning, because she had no choice. It’s quite a conceited thing for middle-class people to judge people who work because way more women in this country have to work than choose to work.”
So she does not want her show, from 12 noon-2pm, to be an extension of GMTV, seen by some politicians as a key battleground with its audience of supposedly swing-voting stay-at-home mothers. “None of my friends who have kids watch GMTV. Maybe we want a little bit more, maybe we don’t just want to fill our lives with baby news. There has been a successful campaign by people like Mumsnet to argue that all people with kids just want to talk about their kids. If you have a modicum of intelligence you realise that the world around us, everything we do, affects our kids.”
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