Quaker bags radio slot
Jennifer Kavanagh has been invited to be a regular contributor to the Inspirit programme
The Quaker writer Jennifer Kavanagh has been invited to deliver a regular slot on radio offering a Quaker perspective on news. The member of Westminster Meeting reviewed the papers for Inspirit, the early Sunday morning programme on BBC Radio London, on 11 August. She told the Friend: ‘Apparently, they’d never had a Quaker on before. It was quite scary, particularly as news isn’t my thing, but it felt important to get people asking questions about what they were reading.’
Her first appearance included a discussion on the almost 50,000 children found to be in inadequate council care and Boris Johnson’s just-announced crackdown on ‘soft justice’. She said: ‘The questions we need to ask ourselves are… does prison work?’ and highlighted the reoffending figure for young people (over ‘sixty per cent’).