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🗓️ 24 March 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:05.2 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:10.3 | Good morning, welcome to the programme. |
0:12.5 | It's been 50 years since the first women were allowed onto the trading floor at the London |
0:17.8 | Stock Exchange. |
0:18.8 | So, today I'll be talking to Berrol Gailer, who stepped onto the Stock Exchange in the |
0:23.0 | 70s, after being asked to interview for the job. |
0:26.6 | She went from being a brokers clerk to a dealer with the boys on the trading floor. |
0:31.6 | So this morning, I'd like to hear your stories of being plucked from obscurity to be given |
0:37.3 | an opportunity where the spotlight has been shown on you when someone noticed little |
0:43.1 | all you. |
0:44.1 | Whether that's a job offer that changed your life or you were picked to captain the school |
0:48.0 | netball team or you were the underdog who got the lead in the school play or maybe the |
0:52.5 | love of your life appeared and swept your feet. |
0:55.9 | My story as an 11-year-old, I went along to support a friend who wanted to audition |
1:00.3 | for a fashion show at school. |
1:02.0 | I was the youngest and the shortest person to walk the catwalk with no intention of being |
1:07.4 | in it myself and guess what, yes, it was me that got picked. |
1:10.9 | My modelling career didn't take off, but I'll never forget the moment the P-tock |
1:15.0 | tock-tructure pointed at me and said, yes, you and Iita, I was the last to be selected |
1:19.6 | and the look on my friend's face, she wasn't happy. |
1:22.7 | So the moment you got your moments, getting touched with me in the usual way, the text |
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