Jenni Murray at Bourne Grammer School

An Audience With Jenni Murray: Bourne Grammar School, Lincolnshire.
Friday November 11th at 7.30pm
Award winning broadcaster Jenni Murray has made a name for herself as a broadcaster of formidable talent. She has presented Radio 4‘s Woman’s Hour for nearly 25 years and before that presented the Today programme alongside John Humphrys and the late Brian Redhead.
She was awarded an OBE in 1999 and was made a Dame in this year’s Birthday Honours list.
Now pupils at Bourne Grammar School in Lincolnshire will be given the opportunity to hear her talk about her life and career and ask questions of their own from this woman who has succeeded in a predominantly masculine world.
An Audience With Jenni Murray comes little more than a week after her fellow Womans Hour presenter Jane Garvey challenged BBC radio bosses to give women more prominent roles on air.
She pointed out that when Woman’s Hour first started in 1946 it was presented by a man. It appears the perception that male presenters are somehow more appropriate for the network’s big-hitting programmes still persists among those at the top of the BBC hierarchy.
“There’s a feeling women don’t want to listen to other women, which is utter rubbish. Maybe there’s a feeling men won’t listen to a woman as well,” said Garvey.
Jenni Murray is among a number of highly talented female broadcasters who prove that such prejudices have no foundation.
An Audience With Jenni Murray is at Bourne Grammar School, South Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, Friday November 11. Box Office: 01778 391647.