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,‘Women Who Oil the Wheels’: Waged Women at the BBC,ing through the ranks to a salaried position. In addition, House Staff are considered; the charwomen, kitchen workers and waitresses who provided vital services such as preparing and serving meals and keeping buildings clean.

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Introduction,on. The introduction places the BBC in the context of the times introducing the tensions inherent in a period that witnessed burgeoning career opportunities for women but also the continuation, and deepening, of discriminatory practices in many occupations and professions. It considers how and why t

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,‘Growing Like a Young Giant’: The BBC as a Place to Work,sm of Broadcasting House. The BBC’s unusual position as both a creative industry and a bureaucratic monolith is explored as is the significant role of John Reith, assessing in particular his relationship with women and with the all-male managerial hierarchy he imposed. The sharp division between wag

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,‘Women Who Oil the Wheels’: Waged Women at the BBC,wered or salaries paid. This chapter explores the daily working lives of the BBC’s weekly paid female secretarial and clerical staff as well as their recruitment, pay, promotional opportunities and mobility. It exposes the highly segregated nature of much of the work, encapsulated in the pivotal rol

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,‘New and Important Careers’: Salaried Women at the BBC,e their male colleagues as ‘equals’ in jobs as diverse as adult education officer, Empire Talks organiser, night hostess, BBC cashier and . assistant. Many held significant posts and the chapter focuses on a number of influential women such as the BBC Librarian, Florence Milnes; the drama producer M

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,‘Women Who Rule at the BBC’: Four Elite Women, employees of the interwar years. Three women attained Director-level positions: Hilda Matheson, Director of Talks (1927–1932); Mary Somerville, Director of School Broadcasting (1931–1937) and Isa Benzie, Foreign Director (1933–1938). A fourth woman, Mary Adams, became the first female television pr

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,‘When They Have Their Cup of Tea’: Making Programmes for Women,eginning with . in 1923. This chapter considers the nature of this output, which ranged from crafts to careers, citizenship to cookery and the key role of the four Talks Assistants who had responsibility for it: Ella Fitzgerald, Elise Sprott, Margery Wace and Janet Quigley. The importance of Hilda M

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,‘You Feel Their Personal Touch’: Women Broadcasters,authority. From the late 1920s, a handful of grandees such as Beatrice Webb spoke in the prestigious evening slots however the majority of talks by women were restricted to daytimes, when the female audience was at its height. Alongside Webb, three other women have been picked out for closer scrutin