Published today, Not the Token Woman, my memoir of my time in BBC News and Current Affairs in the 70s and 80s when sexism was rife and there were few women journalists.
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Fiona Chesterton
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Fiona Chesterton
@FionaChesterton
Media watcher and writer . Ex BBC and C4 journalist and commissioning editor. Author NOT THE TOKEN WOMAN and SECRETS NEVER TO BE TOLD
Cambridge Katılım Nisan 2012
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She was a trailblazer indeed - one of the Lime Grove women who in the 70s made a big impact on those like me who started our careers there. @bbcquestiontime
BBC Question Time@bbcquestiontime
The Question Time team are very sad to hear that the programme’s legendary Editor Barbara Maxwell has died. Barbara launched Question Time in 1979 with Robin Day and led the programme for many years. We send our sincere condolences.
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The Question Time team are very sad to hear that the programme’s legendary Editor Barbara Maxwell has died. Barbara launched Question Time in 1979 with Robin Day and led the programme for many years. We send our sincere condolences.
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@lenacooksyoueat @philoddy @CreativeRoyston @mgvaciago @author_ssmith @PoetryID2 @HayesRosemary And a big thanks from me as well #secretsnevertobetold. Till next year …
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@philoddy @CreativeRoyston @mgvaciago @author_ssmith @FionaChesterton @PoetryID2 @HayesRosemary Phil thank you so much for all your hard work in organising a great event this afternoon! I think the Royston Book Fair was a great success! 👍👍
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Tomorrow! @creativeroyston Royston Arts Festival 2024 is hosting the first Local Authors Book Fair. Featuring @mgvaciago,@author_ssmith, @fionachesterton, @lenacooksyoueat, @PoetryID2, @HayesRosemary and many, many more!
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Very pleased to be part of this event. Come find me at the book fair on the first Saturday.
Creative Royston@RoyArtsFest
We are so excited to launch Royston Arts Festival 2024! Over 50 events: art, crafts, events, exhibitions, literature, music, talks, tours and workshops, 20th Sept-5th Oct 👉 To view the programme: bit.ly/RoystonArtsFes… 👉 Latest news and updates: creativeroyston.org
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So sad to learn of the death of a former colleague. In a cynical age, it’s worth noting that #MichaelMosley truly believed in the power of TV to change and improve people’s lives- and he did.
thetimes.co.uk/article/d712d1…
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@PJDunleavy Amazing that my old patch in North West Cambridgeshire and Huntingdon ( the latter John Major’s seat) is now according to this You Gov poll predicted as too close to call. And this was before Farage’s intervention.
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Tory support has fallen most in areas where it was previously highest, MRP poll suggests | UK News | Sky News news.sky.com/story/tory-sup…
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MND patient’s long wait for wheelchair.Yet another aspect of the current crisis in the NHS. However, wheelchair services have been patchy for many years as I know from close personal experience. theguardian.com/society/articl…
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This looks to be a highly significant strategic change on the way - regardless of any change in Government in the next few months. theguardian.com/media/2024/mar…
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Two former insiders on the regulator which seems to be rewriting impartiality rules on TV and the dangers it poses to democracy in an election year. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Sustainable growth in Cambridgeshire publicsectorexecutive.com/articles/susta…. This response to the announcement made by Michael Gove of 150000 new homes suggests that this was more about electioneering by the Conservatives than a realistic plan.
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Great to see the revamped bookshelves @MuseumofCamb and to find #Secretsnevertobetold there. So if you fancy a Christmas outing to Cambridge take a walk up Bridge St towards Castle St and you’ll find it.
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Glad that the experience of women who suffered for the ‘crime’ of having a child out of wedlock is now being told - loud and proud. #secretsnevertobetold.
justin webb@JustinOnWeb
Rory’s book is wonderful - single mums of the 60s we salute you 👏👏👏
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@JustinOnWeb @ruskin147 Strange to see such similarities ( and crucial differences) with my own story as a child born ‘out of wedlock’ in the unforgiving fifties #secretsnevertobetold @TheConradPress.
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Rory’s book is wonderful - single mums of the 60s we salute you 👏👏👏
Rory Cellan-Jones@ruskin147
Feeling a bit emotional this morning after reading the great review of my memoir #RuskinPark in the Observer by @TimAdamsWrites and the lovely piece by @JustinOnWeb in the Sunday Times. Please buy a paper - and the book!!
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Head of UK’s leading anti-monarchy group arrested at coronation protest. I am not a republican but I do believe in the freedom to protest. This is very worrying. theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/m…
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Sixty thousand women over three decades in Scotland alone forced to give up children - most simply for having babies out of wedlock. A U.K.wide scandal of course. My own story of a blighted childhood #secretsnevertobetold sheds more light on this taboo. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…
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This seems a particularly good day to retweet this.
U.S. Ambassador to the Human Rights Council@USAmbHRC
75 years ago a remarkable woman, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, helped lead efforts to draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a milestone document in the history of #HumanRights. Let’s celebrate Eleanor & other trailblazing women this International Women’s Day. #IWD2023
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