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Back in the late noughties there was criticism for the lack of older female presenters, so they brought in and publicised the appointments of Julia Somerville, Fiona Armstrong, Zeinab Badawi and Carole Walker. I don’t think any of them had fixed slots and I can’t ever recall seeing Zeinab Badawi on the channel to be honest. But Carole Walker was used quite a bit until she went to Times Radio.

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Quite a good time to bring this up considering they’re currently in the process of making all of the women over 50 on the channel redundant (albeit in this case the BBC One team now includes multiple women whose current age would have considered them older at the time).