S16, Ep8 How To Fail: Joan Bakewell - the legendary broadcaster on life, love and everything in between
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
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How Did You Get Away From the BBC?
I knew major friends where you did. Of course, the person I was to marry had come from Cambridge with me and he had a job in the BBC too. So the whole social world within the BBC was really open to everybody. There were some radio producers who were women, but there were just very few. And the men organized it. It's run by a whole lot of men, some outstanding women. But there weren't many of them. They had to be really tough and talented to get through. You have to be good at what you do. And I was quite sociable and pretty. So I was a reasonable person to have a coffee with or to go to the local
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