[cma-l] Sound Women

[Caroline Mitchell]

Women have been activating in radio for a long time-and I am pleased to see this new group. I first discovered the benefit of joining together with other women in radio in the late 1970′s when I joined ‘Women’s Airwaves’ in London . This group gave me my first experience of feminism and was hugely important to me as a new entrant in radio when I needed support, training, mentors…. In 1992, with my radio sister Trish Caverly and 200 volunteers in Bristol, I set up Fem FM, a week long women’s radio station that proved that women could do everything in radio! This inspired other short term stations e.g.Brazen Radio in London, Radio Venus in Bradford. I edited a book called Women and Radio, Airing Differences (published by Routledge in 2000) to bring together research in this area- it was warmly endorsed by Dame Jenni Murray! Also, don’t forget the very active Women’s Radio Group that trains, broadcasts and supports women in London and beyond!
I’d love to be part of your network and if I can help bring together some of the experience of women’s radio activism, training, support from the past…
Caroline Mitchell Senior lecturer in Radio, University of Sunderland and independent community media researcher and trainer
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From: cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk [cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] on behalf of Tamar Millen [tamar.millen at commedia.org.uk]
Sent: 29 June 2011 17:52
To: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
Subject: [cma-l] Sound Women

The Start of Sound Women
Posted on 29/06/2011 by Maria Williams

The morning after the last Sony Radio Academy Awards I rashly declared
the need for a ‘women in radio’ group.  The response was amazing, with
women from all over the UK and Ireland wanting to join on the spot and
swop stories…  It’s taken a while to get here, but yesterday a group
women working in audio – BBC, commercial and online – went into the
first ‘Women in Radio’ meeting at BBC Broadcasting House, and emerged
two hours later as ‘Sound Women’.

Read more and join up at the link below.

http://mariawilliams.org/2011/06/29/the-start-of-sound-women/

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Tamar Millen
Arts Coordinator
Community Media Association
15 Paternoster Row
Sheffield
S1 2BX

0114 2795219

http://www.commedia.org.uk/join-cma/
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