"Woman's Hour" from Joyce Grenfell to Sharon Osbourne - Softcover

Jenni Murray became the regular presenter of Woman's Hour in 1987. In the Queen's Birthday Honours 1999 she was awarded an OBE for her contribution to radio broadcasting. Sue MacGregor spent fifteen years as a presenter on Woman's Hour. Until she left in 2002, she was also the longest-serving presenter of Today. She now presents A Good Read and The Reunion on Radio 4. Martha Kearney has presented Woman's Hour on Fridays and the weekend edition on Saturdays since 1998. She is also political editor of Newsnight and still presents the programme from time to time.

'The history of the programme, through austerity, affluence, permissiveness, feminism, Thatcherism and post-Thatcherism, is almost the story of women in Britain since the Second World War' The Sunday Times 'This book ... is a remarkable history of how women feel about themselves and their surroundings' Edwina Currie, The Times 'A dippable bedside book that is rather like the programme itself under Jenni Murray's charge: brisk, unsentimental, well-informed, produced at speed' Valerie Grove, Literary Review 'Generations of women (and men) who have had their lives enlightened, entertained and empowered by Radio 4's iconic Women's Hour will be a target market for this book marking the programme's sixtieth anniversary' Publishing News 'With contributions from Jenni Murray, Sue MacGregor and Martha Kearney, a collection of interviews representing the best of this iconic and influential Radio 4 programme' Publishing News 'It is one of the pleasures of this book that the post-war years, in their famed austerity, shine a queer lamp on our affluent and promiscuously media-friendly decade' Kathy O'Shaughnessy, Times Literary Supplement 'A celebratory volume... providing insight into an institution' Sue Baker, Publishing News '(A) delightful and rewarding book' Helen Zaltzman, Observer 'A remarkable chronicle' Rebecca Schischa, Daily Express 'It's a cornucopia of bite-size history and will have you laughing and crying in equal measure, even if you've never listened to the programme before and even if you're a man' The South Wales Argus