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Woman's Hour

BBC 100 - Kim Moore poem with women's voices, Auntie Beeb with Mel Giedroyc, former MP Anne Milton on Gavin Williamson

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Today it is 100 years since the BBC began broadcasting on radio. To celebrate that centenary, we have commissioned a poem by Kim Moore and created a soundscape to show how much women’s lives, and the noises that surround them, have changed - using BBC archive from the 1920s right through to the present day. We also ask why did the BBC get its nickname ‘Auntie’? And what kind of aunt would she be? To mark 100 years since the BBC started daily radio broadcasts, Emma Barnett is joined by television presenter and comedian Mel Giedroyc and historian of the BBC Professor Jean Seaton. Sir Gavin Williamson resigned from the cabinet last week following allegations of bullying; the Labour MP Charlotte Nichols has claimed there is a "whisper list" of 40 politicians to never accept a drink from or be alone with; and claims have emerged over the weekend that civil servants at the Ministry of Justice were offered “respite or a route out” when Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab was reappointed last month. Emma asks Anne Milton, the former deputy chief whip who has accused Gavin Williamson of subjecting MPs to “unethical and immoral behaviour" - whether we can infer a 'blokeish' culture in politics. We also hear from Isabel Hardman, Assistant Editor at the Spectator. Anna Sorokin was born to an ordinary family in Moscow, before moving to Germany as a teenager. But upon arriving in New York, she transformed herself into Anna Delvey, a German multimillionaire heiress with a trust fund in Europe. She used this persona to lead a lavish lifestyle and conned friends, big banks and hotels into thinking that her fortune could cover the luxury she desired. But it was all a con. She was found guilty in 2019 of theft of services and grand larceny, having scammed more than $200,000 (£145,000) and spent almost four years in jail. In her first radio interview since being released, Anna Delvey joins Emma.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:05.3

Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.6

Good morning and welcome to the programme and what a day to be talking to you on the radio,

0:15.7

the wireless, the device in your ears, whatever you like to call it, today does mark the day

0:20.9

that the BBC started daily broadcasts a hundred years ago.

0:25.0

And when you think of a hundred years of the BBC, it's radio.

0:28.5

That's it.

0:29.5

Well, it was none of this TV or internet malarkey, just the good old wireless or the friend

0:34.4

in your ear as I like to refer to it.

0:36.8

On the 14th of November 1922, then the very first programme was a news bulletin at 6pm

0:42.4

sharp, swiftly followed by a weather forecast.

0:46.0

Both were read by the newly minted director of programmes, Arthur Burrows.

0:50.0

But here's my favourite bit.

0:52.1

He read the news twice, once fast, and then slowly.

0:56.1

So the very first listeners could write in and say which they understood with greater

1:01.2

ease.

1:02.2

So there you go, I'm not going to do things twice today, I promise.

1:05.4

And while that's utterly charming, it's also a sign of how foreign this act of broadcast

1:09.7

communication was.

1:11.6

But to mark this day here on Woman's Hour, we have a real treat for your ears in the form

1:16.0

of a specially commissioned poem and a smorgasbord of women's voices on air through the century.

1:21.7

We also have a historian on hand to help put this day into perspective from a female point

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