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Jenni Murray
Jenni inherited the Woman's Hour presenter's chair from Sue MacGregor; discover the best compliment she ever received.
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Jane Garvey
The first voice on Radio Live 5 when it was launched in March 1994, Jane joins Woman's Hour after a 13 year run as co-host of the network’s Drivetime programme, with Peter Allen.
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Ritula Shah
Ritula has realised a dream by becoming a Woman's Hour presenter and enjoys the "thoroughly good eggs" she interviews.
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Jane Little
Alongside Woman’s Hour, Jane is a regular presenter on Radio 4’s Sunday. She’s also sat in the chair on Last Word, and The World Tonight.
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Miriam O'Reilly
Miriam comes to Woman's Hour from Farming Today, Costing the Earth, File on 4 and BBC 1's Countryfile , for which she has won many awards.
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Martha Kearney
Martha Kearney has presented Woman's Hour since 1998 on Fridays and the weekend edition on Saturdays. She has now moved on to present Radio 4's The World at One.
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Sheila McClennon
She loves the variety of people she has interviewed for Woman's Hour. Find out which mother's life Sheila found an inspiration
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Sue MacGregor
Forty years after women achieved full voting rights, a new wave of feminism emerged in the late sixties and early seventies.
Gloria Steinem, the American feminist, (speaking in 1975) told Sue MacGregor, Woman's Hour presenter for 15 years, why a new women's movement was necessary.
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Marjorie Anderson
For over 50 years Woman's Hour has featured the famous and infamous, men and women who have, quite literally, defined their times.
Marjorie Anderson, who was the voice of Woman's Hour until 1972, talked to Mary Quant, the young designer whose mini skirts captured the spirit of the 'swinging sixties'.
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Olive Shapley
Live broadcasting, with all its risks and rewards, has always been fundamental to Woman's Hour. Even in the early days, when a slip of the tongue could prompt a national outrage, the programme never shirked from tackling inflammatory items.
Olive Shapley was a pioneer of unscripted live interviewing. She issued 'storm warnings' before controversial items, as in this excerpt broadcast prior to an item on unmarried parents, and once held up a notice for a group of Durham miners warning them not to swear on air.
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Jean Metcalfe
Today Woman's Hour combines live and pre-recorded material but the early broadcasts were mostly live.
Jean Metcalfe, who presented the programme between 1947 and 1958, describes how guests would arrive in time for lunch, often wearing their hats in the studio.
Jean joined the BBC as a typist during the Second World War, and went on to become a "speaking Vera Lynn" on Forces Favourites. Between 1947 and 1958 Jean presented Woman's Hour, during which time she covered everything from the Coronation to a caged bird contest.
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