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Eve Pollard

Journalist and former editor Eve Pollard is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.

Kirsty Young's castaway is the journalist and former editor Eve Pollard.

She was groomed for success by Rupert Murdoch, but made an editor by Robert Maxwell. Her career has spanned glossy magazines and tabloid journalism, breakfast television, biographies and novels. When she first worked on Fleet Street, she says, women were such a rarity that the male reporters didn't know what to make of her. "Any woman who has a high flying job, they don't know who to compare you to - you're not their mum, you're not their sister, you're not their wife - so they make you a sort of monster-nanny figure."

Producer: Leanne Buckle.

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45 minutes

Last on

Fri 16 Dec 2011 09:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Gladys Knight & the Pips

    Midnight Train To Georgia

    Composer: J Weatherly

    • The Best of Gladys Knight & The Pips.
    • Label: Columbia.

  • Elvis Presley

    Don’t Be Cruel

    Composer: Blackwell/Presley

    • All The Best From Elvis.
    • BMG International.

  • Ethel Merman

    You’re Just in Love from the film Call Me Madam

    Composer: Irving Berlin

    • 12 Songs from Call Me Madame.
    • MCA.

  • Castaway's Favourite

    • Giacomo Puccini

      Oh, My Beloved Father

      Artist: Joan Hammond

      • Two Way Family Favourites CD2.
      • EMI.

  • Stevie Wonder

    You are the Sunshine of My Life

    Composer: Stevie Wonder

    • Ballad Collection.
    • MOTOWN.

  • Huey Lewis and the News

    The Power Of Love

    Composer: Lewis

    • Fore!.
    • CHRYSALIS.

  • Gary Shearston

    I Get a Kick Out of You

    Composer: Porter

    • Hit History Volume 20: 1974.
    • Charisma.

  • Louis Armstrong

    La Vie en Rose

    Composer: Piaf/Louiguy

    • The Very Best Of Louis Armstrong CD1.
    • Universal.

  • Book Choice

    • Maritime Intelligence and Publications

  • Luxury Choice

    • Tweezers

Credits

Presenter Kirsty Young
Interviewed Guest Eve Pollard

Broadcasts

  • Sun 11 Dec 2011 11:15
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Fri 16 Dec 2011 09:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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