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🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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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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