Posted by Peter Ceresole on October 14, 2005 at 00:38:43 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Career Options for Nancy posted by David Bamford on October 13, 2005 at 22:23:23:
I always fancied that she would end up as an overseas correspondent for the Beeb.
Very unlikely. The British media was terribly conservative at the time, like British society, and that included the Beeb. Their overseas and war correspondents were all men- although some of their Talks producers were women.
Women were breaking through- for example Margaret Bourke-White and Lee Miller became legendary for their work as war reporters and photographers, but they were American. The Brits were way behind.