Mike Buchanan: Interview By Radical Feminist For BBC Sunday Politics + On Women In politics - The Stephen Nolan Show, BBC Radio Ulster

Mike Buchanan: On Thursday 9 April, Ray Barry (our candidate in Broxtowe) and I travelled to Nottingham to be interviewed by BBC TV (East Midlands). We were both interviewed for an edition of Sunday Politics to be transmitted three days later. I was interviewed by Sarah Honeycombe, a radical feminist who'd studied Politics at university. Before the interview I asked her if she was a gender feminist or an equity feminist, and she said she was both, amusingly. A couple of simple questions soon revealed her to be a gender (i.e. radical) feminist. Ray was interviewed by a female presenter.


Sarah and I spoke for a considerable length of time, but less than three minutes survived the editing process, 14:41 to 17:33. To her credit she was friendly and polite - more so off-air than on-air, it has to be said - a rare thing for a radical feminist.

Not a second of Ray's interview made it onto the programme, although he's a far more polished speaker on TV and radio than myself. That's probably the very reason his interview didn't appear. He was later not invited onto the BBC Radio Nottingham Broxtowe hustings.

The first section of the programme extract 00:00 - 14:40 consists of the presenter interviewing four of the Broxtowe candidates. I understand Ray wasn't invited onto that discussion (he gets a very fleeting mention at 20:12).

At 17:34 the female presenter asks the candidates what their parties would do to entice women aged 18-24 to vote, as this is the group least likely to vote.

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Mike Buchanan - The Stephen Nolan Show, BBC Radio Ulster

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