"No
regrets" Edwina Currie challenges BBC Radio Five Live listeners
to quiz her about her diaries
Late Night Currie listeners get their chance to quiz presenter Edwina
Currie about the furore over her diaries when she returns to host
her regular BBC Radio Five Live show at 10.00pm tomorrow (Saturday,
19 October).
She said today: "Come on if you're tough enough. I can take
it!
"I'm
looking forward to confronting my detractors (and supporters!) head
on.
"I shan't be afraid to stand my ground. Late Night Currie listeners
are like my constituents - they may not always like what I have
to say but I will never lie to them."
She added: "I have absolutely no regrets about what I wrote
in my diaries nor have I regretted publishing them.
"My intention was solely to help rewrite the history of the
1980s and 1990s when I was in Government. And that objective has
been comprehensively achieved."
Edwina will answer questions for the first hour of the three hour
programme. For the first hour Radio Five Live chief political correspondent
John Pienaar will be with her in the Pebble Mill studio, Birmingham
to make sure there's fair play.
Edwina
Currie took three weeks' leave from Late Night Currie to publicise
the diaries with their shock revelation of her four year affair
with John Major.
She
has renounced politics for her media career and has presented the
live weekend programme Late Night Currie since March 1998.
More information is available on Five Live's website
at bbc.co.uk/fivelive
An audio file of Saturday'sLate Night Currie will be posted on the
site after transmission so that browsers can listen at any time.
