Anne-Marie Imafidon Guest Edits Today
Best of Today
BBC
4.0 • 837 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Today’s sixth Christmas guest editor is Anne-Marie Imafidon – computer scientist, CEO and co-presenter of Countdown.
Hear highlights of her programme, whose central theme is opportunity. She looks at how we work, how we fund science, and how we recognise the achievements of women which have been lost to history, such as Dr Gladys Mae West, whose maths work paved the way for GPS navigation.
We also explore two of Anne-Marie’s big passions – Nigerian food and trainers.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello and welcome to the best of today. |
| 0:07.0 | Our sixth Christmas guest editor is Dr Anne-Marie Amalfadon. |
| 0:10.5 | Anne-Marie describes herself as a technologist. |
| 0:12.9 | She's also a chief executive and author, |
| 0:14.9 | and she's co-presented the TV show Countdown. |
| 0:17.9 | She was so good at maths that she appeared on today as an 11-year-old about taking her |
| 0:22.3 | GCSEs early. Her program takes opportunity as the central theme. In this podcast of the highlights of her |
| 0:28.7 | show, there'll be opportunities to think about how we work, how we fund science, and how we |
| 0:33.5 | recognise the achievements of women which have been lost to history. Ten years ago, Anne-Marie started the STEMettes, a social enterprise which helps young women |
| 0:41.7 | and non-binary people prepare for careers in the STEM subjects, science, technology, engineering |
| 0:47.2 | and maths. |
| 0:48.4 | The STEM-ets have recently taken part in a national pilot of a four-day working week, something |
| 0:53.0 | they're planning to adopt. |
| 0:54.6 | And for her guest edit, Anne-Marie wanted to look at future opportunities in work, with the help |
| 0:59.1 | of questions from some of the Stemets. |
| 1:01.3 | And she put these questions to Anna Thomas, director of the Institute for the Future of Work. |
| 1:05.9 | I'd be honest, Anna, I'm really excited to have you on. |
| 1:08.4 | I'm excited to have a conversation about what happens next at work. |
| 1:11.3 | When we think about my five-year-olds that I have across the METs that we work with across the |
| 1:15.5 | country, there are new jobs all the time. The workplace is constantly shifting. roles are being |
| 1:21.5 | created and fundamentally evolving as well. What do we think the world of work is going to look like for these five, |
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