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Great Lives

Helena Morrissey on Rachael Heyhoe Flint

Great Lives

BBC

Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

City boss Dame Helena Morrissey champions the life of Rachael Heyhoe Flint, the pioneer of women's cricket.

Regarded as a ground breaker, Baroness Heyhoe Flint ruffled feathers and shook up a male dominated sport.

Helena Morrissey makes the case for why Heyhoe Flint is a great life.

With Matthew Parris and Dr Raf Nicholson who teaches history at Queen Mary University of London and is a writer on the women's game

Dame Helen has also made it to the top of her career in a male dominated word of the City. She is founder of the 30% Club, a campaign group whose aim is to get a minimum of 30% women on FTSE-100 boards. Now working as Head of Personal Investing with Legal and General Investment Management.

Producer: Perminder Khatkar

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2017.

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This is the BBC. Our great life has been described as someone who was a groundbreaker, a pioneer, someone

0:39.1

who ruffled feathers and shook up male-dominated sport. Rachel Heho Flint, who died in January this year, epitomized

0:47.7

women's cricket in England for more than a generation, bringing it respectability and a higher profile than it had ever enjoyed.

0:56.1

And nominating Heho Flint as Her Great Life Choice is my guest Dame Helena Morrissey, who too has made it to the top of her career in a male-dominated world, the city.

1:07.0

She's founder of the 30% Club, a campaign group whose aim is to get a minimum of 30% women on Futsi 100 boards.

1:15.6

And now she's head of personal investing at legal and general investment management,

1:20.9

a huge British multinational financial services company whose headquarters are in London.

1:26.5

Dame Helena, I see the parallels between you and your great life both working in environments

1:32.0

that have made it hard for women to be accepted as equals.

1:35.3

Is that the reason for you're making this choice?

1:38.3

It is, the main reason.

1:40.2

I admire women who both get to the top of their own game but do something to help other women.

1:46.0

And from everything I have been able to gather about Rachel Heho, that's what she did.

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