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Building the Audience

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ TV’s first female newsreader, Nan Winton, tells the story of how she was sacked, and staff from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s monitoring service explain the role they played in defusing the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Television’s first female newsreader, Nan Winton, tells the story of how she was sacked because the editor preferred men to read the news. That editor, Michael Peacock, describes his shame at the whole episode.

Staff working in the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s monitoring service near Reading explain the critical role they played in defusing the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when the world was on the brink of nuclear war. And Tony Blackburn describes the alarm his new colleagues at Radio 1 felt when he said he worked without a script: it meant their morning delivery of coffee and doughnuts was under threat.

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1 hour, 29 minutes

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Credits

Role Contributor
Narrator Joanna Scanlan
Writer John Bridcut
Producer John Bridcut
Executive Producer Magnus Temple
Production Company The Garden Productions

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