Behind the Wireless
A History of Early Women at the BBC
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Word Count
73,750 words, Guess
Page Count
295 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28927457M
- ISBN-101137491728
- ISBN-139781137491725
- Library of Congress Control Number2016936509
- OCLC Control Number934193962
and 1 more
- Better World Books9781137491725
Classifications
- LCCQ162
- LCCHE8699.G7 M87 2016
- LCCHE8700.9.G7 M87 2016
Description
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 façade 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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