Pioneering Women: 100 Voices that made the BBC

2020-10-10 ··· Kate Murphy, Jeannine Baker, Emma Sandon, Kate Terkanian, Helen Wood, Lucy Robinson, Sejal Sutaria, David Butler, Martha Kearney, John Escolme, Mike Hammond, Vicky Ball, David Hendy, Alban Webb

The project “Pioneering Women: 100 Voices that made the BBC” presents the contributions women have made to the BBC since its beginning, in the early 1920s. The use of radio interviews, which can be directly streamed from the site, allows the authors to provide listeners and readers alike with the oral histories of these women, as well as analyze what the women of the BBC symbolized for women around the world. The women of the BBC stood as figureheads for the destruction of the paradigm that women were incapable of being anything other than a stay at home wife or a secretary. From producers, to television/radio hosts, to engineers, the women of the BBC paved the way for gender equality and equal opportunity within the workplace. “Pioneering Women: 100 Voices that made the BBC” enlightens readers on the revolutionary women who made the BBC the institution it is today.

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Pioneering Women: 100 Voices that made the BBC

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Kate Murphy, Jeannine Baker, Emma Sandon, Kate Terkanian, Helen Wood, Lucy Robinson, Sejal Sutaria, David Butler, Martha Kearney, John Escolme, Mike Hammond, Vicky Ball, David Hendy, Alban Webb

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2020-10-10

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The project “Pioneering Women: 100 Voices that made the BBC” was produced by the University of Sussex, the BBC, Mass Observation, the Science Museum Group, and the British Entertainment History Project.

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