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Woman's Hour

Late Night Woman's Hour: Women in Tech

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Lauren Laverne talks to technology evangelist Dr Sue Black, Professor of New Technologies at Goldsmiths University Sarah Kember, and games scriptwriter Rhianna Pratchett about the challenges and opportunities currently facing women working in technology, and about the ways in which new technologies cater to women or fail to do so. Recorded with an audience at the British Science Festival in Brighton.

Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Laura Thomas.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

0:06.8

searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

0:11.8

telly we share what we've been watching

0:14.0

Fladiated.

0:16.0

Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

0:19.0

Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

0:21.0

And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

0:25.0

searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds.

0:29.0

Welcome to this month's a late night woman's hour podcast recorded at the British

0:33.0

science festival I'm talking about women in tech with the brilliant Dr Sue

0:36.6

black professor Sarah Kemba and Rihanna Pratchett just a little warning

0:41.5

it gets very passionate round about 47 minutes in.

0:45.0

So if you want to skip over those bits, you can. It's only a second or so.

0:50.0

Couple of four letter words. FYI.

0:53.0

Enjoy.

0:54.0

Thank you very much for that very warm welcome.

1:02.0

Welcome to Late Night Woman's Hour.

1:03.8

We're here at the British Science Festival

1:06.0

for the very first time.

1:07.2

Welcome to our audience and welcome to our guests.

1:10.7

With me tonight, Sarah Kemba, She's a professor of new technologies of

1:14.6

communication at Goldsmiths University in London. She recently published a

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