Woman's Hour turns 75 today

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Our specially commissioned poll to celebrate Woman’s Hour at 75 looks at women and equality in the UK today. It finds the place that women feel the most unequal is in the home, at work in terms of pay and benefits and in terms of safety due to their experience of sexual exploitation and abuse. Emma Barnett talks about the issues raised with our panel including the author Jeanette Winterson, the commentator Inaya Floarin Iman and the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project Laura Bates.

Joan Diana Gayford nee Wilson joined the BBC as a talks producer shortly after the Second World War. Not long after a new programme hit the airwaves. 75 years later, to the day, you can hear Emma talking to Diana Gayford who was working on Woman’s Hour when it first came to air at 2pm on 7th October 1946.

Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond joins Emma on this anniversary programme. She is a former judge who served as the first female president of the Supreme Court. In 2019 she made headlines announcing the Supreme Court’s judgement that the prorogation of Parliament was ‘unlawful, void and of no effect’. She has written a book, Spider Woman, that spans her life and work.

Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Lucinda Montefiore

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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, music radio podcasts.
0:35.0	Hello, I'm Emma Barnet and welcome to Woman's A from BBC Radio 4.
0:40.0	Hello and welcome to today's programme program which is the 75th anniversary of BBC Woman's Hour
0:46.4	a program I was very proud to join in January and like every other day we are on air
0:51.1	Remember we broadcast six days a week, I want to share the microphone with
0:54.9	you and do what's baked into this program's DNA, giving women a platform and hearing your
1:00.6	voice loud and clear.
1:03.0	To mark 75 years of this program,
1:05.2	we have commissioned a poll to try and capture
1:07.6	a snapshot of how equal women feel in their lives today.
1:11.6	I'll be sharing the findings with you shortly. But at the heart of
1:15.1	the results is a whopping great chasm between the equality the law says we should have as
1:20.6	women and the reality of some women's lives. Of course we have made
1:25.2	so much progress in the past seven decades but some barriers and problems remain
1:30.0	stubbornly in place. My questions for you today then are these. How have your lives
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