The Jane Fonda Workout
Witness History
BBC
4.4 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In April 1982 the film star Jane Fonda launched her first workout video - encouraging millions of women to "go for the burn". Hear how the idea of home workouts took off, and why she felt such a compulsion to exercise.
Photo: Jane Fonda on the red carpet for the Annual Academy Awards 2013. Credit: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images
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| 0:35.4 | Sounds. |
| 0:36.4 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:40.9 | My name's Linda Davies and I commissioned |
| 0:43.0 | podcast for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:45.0 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality, |
| 0:49.0 | featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices. |
| 0:54.4 | What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
| 1:00.9 | poltergeist, cricket and conspiracy theories, and that's just a few examples. |
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| 1:11.1 | at BBC Sounds. |
| 1:12.3 | Hello and thank you for downloading Witness with me Lucy Burns on the BBC World Service. |
| 1:17.0 | And today we're going back to April 1982 and the release of a VHS tape that would make fitness history, the Jane Fonda workout. |
| 1:26.0 | Ready, exhale up, hold, hold and down, up, hold it, and down, up all the way, and down, |
| 1:35.0 | don't use your arms to lift you, and down. |
| 1:39.0 | In 1982, Jane Fonda was one of the most famous women in America. |
| 1:43.0 | Hollywood royalty from a young age thanks to her actor Father Henry, |
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