OCTOBER'S I.C.s - MARTHA KEARNEY

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The World at One's ever-busy Martha Kearney scored her highest score in a fine ding-dong with Boris (about which see http://beebbiascraig.blogspot.com/2009/10/doing-tory-splits.html). Here are all her results for October:
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05/10 Boris Johnson Conservative 1.5
29/10 Tony McNulty Labour 1.1
13/10 Jack Straw Labour 1
28/10 Lord Adonis Labour 0.9
06/10 Philip Hammond Conservative 0.9
21/10 Peter Hain Labour 0.9
07/10 Michael Gove Conservative 0.8
27/10 Bill Rammell Labour 0.8
21/10 David Gauke Conservative 0.6
05/10 Theresa May Conservative 0.6
15/10 Cathy Ashton Labour 0.5
26/10 George Osborne Conservative 0.5
19/10 Peter Kilfoyle Labour 0.4
30/10 Dan Hannan Conservative 0.4
27/10 Lindsay Hoyle Labour 0.4
01/10 David Miliband Labour 0.4
14/10 David Laws Lib Dem 0.4
20/10 Nick Griffin BNP 0.3
29/10 Jeremy Hunt Conservative 0.3
05/10 Andrew Rosindell Conservative 0
27/10 Mark Lancaster Conservative 0
05/10 Sir Malcolm Rifkind Conservative 0
06/10 Andrew Lansley Conservative 0
13/10 Ann Widdecombe Conservative 0
21/10 John McFall Labour 0
26/10 David Miliband Labour 0
28/10 Eric Pickles Conservative 0
14/10 Jim Knight Labour 0
19/10 Ed Balls Labour 0
07/10 Doug Henderson Labour 0
21/10 Norman Baker Lib Dem 0
27/10 Andrew Mitchell Conservative 0
13/10 Martin Salter Labour 0
01/10 Ben Wallace Conservative 0
19/10 John Prescott Labour 0
14/10 Theresa May Conservative 0
20/10 Paddy Ashdown Lib Dem 0
22/10 Austin Mitchell Labour 0
28/10 Simon Hughes Lib Dem 0
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This results in the following averages for the month:
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Labour - 0.38
Conservatives - 0.33
BNP - 0.3
Lib Dems - 0.1
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Martha Kearney has not featured much on my blog, despite her having conducted 125 interviews that fall under my criteria. And here's why. Her super-averages for the last 5 months reveal scant evidence of bias on her part (and there's that not much anecdotal evidence either):
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DUP (1) - 0.5
Conservatives (34) - 0.45
Labour (64) - 0.42
Lib Dems (22) - 0.41
BNP (1) - 0.3
SNP (3) - 0.23
(There were also 2 interviews with cross-bench peers).
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Martha Kearney looks like a BBC saint on this evidence.