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Hello and welcome to Women with Balls, where I, Katie Balls, speak to today's trailblazers.

We are back from the summer break with a new series and some exciting guests.

The first of him joins me now in the Spectator Boardroom.

So my guest today is the season Fleet Street hack and editor.

She was deputy editor of the Daily Telegraph under Charles Moore by the age of 35.

She went on to become the first female editor of the Sunday Telegraph, eventually going on to

take the reins at the evening standard. Most recently, she has been in the news for her

editorship of Radio 4's flagship current affairs show, the Today program. She took on the role in

2017, a period which

which saw Theresa May's premiership face disaster, Boris Johnson become prime minister, a government boycott

of the show, and most recently, a global pandemic. She has now stepped down from the role.

Looking back on her time there recently, she reflected on suggestions that the BBC has lost a

sense of balance. She said, the BBC is not just a broadcaster, but also an attentive

employer in the age of the employee activist. The result is a sense of entitlement among younger

employees. They expect to have their view of the world on air. So to discuss that and many

other things, I will now introduce

her. My guest today is Sarah Sance. Thank you very much for joining us today. Now, on this podcast,

we like to begin by just rewinding the hands of time slightly to what you're doing before you

entered your current career. So you grew up in Kent, attended a school there. Would you describe yours

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