Talk:Anne Atkins

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"Vicar's Wife"[edit]

What's the point of calling her a "vicar's wife" exactly? It's just sexist. "Christian broadcaster and writer" sums her up. 217.154.102.195 (talk) 15:10, 8 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article would be greatly helped if details of her husband (name and occupation) could be found to put on the page. The need to refer to her as a vicar's wife could be removed. (It would become anyway totally needless if in the Church of England priesthood he were to be promoted above parish clergy level, eg Archdeacon, Canon, Bishop etc.)Cloptonson (talk) 18:55, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

views on assisted suicide[edit]

Anne Atkins views on assisted suicide were given on The Big Questions -BBC One on Sunday 3 May 2009[1]. She believed that it was wicked to assist suicide. She gave the anecdote of her son who has aspergers syndrome. When aged ten he attempted to kill himself because he felt he didn't fit in this world. His mother told him how important life is, and doing well or passing exams isn't as important as life. According to Ms Atkins her son was thrown out of Cambridge because of his aspergers, which she termed a "disability." Ms Atkins said that killing yourself is the most selfish thing a person can do. Damson88 (talk) 16:56, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Doctor[edit]

She's always introduced on Radio 4 as "Doctor Anne Akins". Can anyone find a source to tell us the subject in which she has a doctorate? Qwfp (talk) 08:00, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A couple of points[edit]

She doesn't have a doctorate, and I doubt she's ever been introduced as Dr Anne Atkins. Perhaps you misheard?
I believe that the line about conkers in Norfolk appeared in a Thought for the Day, but she was talking about compensation culture at the time, yes. I know that the next day, or a few days later, she was asked to speak on some local BBC radio (presumably a station in Norfolk somewhere) to defend herself. Also on this later programme was (as is customary) some other vaguely famous person holding the opposite view, i.e. that the joke had been unacceptably offensive. I don't know of any other public mentions of this particular incident. If the joke did originally appear on Thought for the Day, which I believe it did, then the line would have been cleared with the producer beforehand, as Thought for the Day is one of the most heavily edited slots on the Today programme, and every word has to be pored over for hours beforehand.

J Alexander D Atkins (talk) 15:47, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Noticing the surname, the writer ought to declare whether or not they are related to her or her husband, otherwise this may be unlikely to be considered an unbiased intervention.Cloptonson (talk) 07:12, 17 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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