Barbara Dreaver

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690 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 29 Apr

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Grey Areas with Petra Bagust · Telling the truth under pressure | Barbara Dreaver · 29 Apr 2026 podcast

I've learnt how to get to the front because I am short.

Maybe that's helped me try a little bit harder to get there.

Maybe it is.

Yeah, because it is quite hard being as short, because I really am short.

Are you?

Yeah, I'm just under five foot, so I don't know what that is.

That's awesome.

It's like 154 centimetres or something like that.

And that is short, and it is even shorter than my short friends.

LAUGHTER

so you know I just and they're like we're so short and I go to stand next oh Barb you're worse than me so yeah I would like a little I would love to have a little bit longer legs but and as you get older you know you and especially being on television it's really difficult because you sort of like because I get a you know a lot of abuse you know oh she's and it's usually from guys and oh she's this and that fat and a whole lot of you know horrible abuse and

And so you have to be quite strong just to – well, one, I don't read the comments on Facebook anymore.

Why?

Yeah, and I tell all the young journalists, do not read comments on social media.

And it's very tempting.

It is.

It's very tempting.

Yeah.

No, it's horrible.

It's terrible.

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