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Behind the Wireless - A History of Early Women at the BBC (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
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Behind the Wireless - A History of Early Women at the BBC (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
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Behind the Wireless tells the story of women at the BBC in the
1920s and 30s. Broadcasting was brand new in Britain and the BBC
developed without many of the overt discriminatory practices
commonplace at the time. Women were employed at all levels, except
the very top, for instance as secretaries, documentary makers,
advertising representatives, and librarians. Three women held
Director level posts, Hilda Matheson (Director of Talks), Mary
Somerville (Director of School Broadcasting), and Isa Benzie
(Foreign Director). Women also produced the programmes aimed at
female listeners and brought women broadcasters to the microphone.
There was an ethos of equality and the chance to rise through the
ranks from accounts clerk to accompanist. But lurking behind the
facade of modernity were hidden inequalities in recruitment, pay,
and promotion and in 1932 a marriage bar was introduced. Kate
Murphy examines how and why the interwar BBC created new
opportunities for women.
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