#changethegame: Behind the scenes of the women's summer of sport season

Azi

My name is Azi Farni. I'm a sports presenter on the BBC news channels.

So a normal day for me – I'd come in and pretty much the first thing I would do is go into make-up, which is quite a nice start to the day. You have chats with your producer about how things are going to work. Sometimes we have people live at different places. So we've got somebody Wimbledon, we've got somebody at Edgbaston – there's a lot going on.

For me, it will be a case of sitting down and starting to write the scripts. Looking at some matches or some games that have happened and then, in some cases, looking ahead to things that are going on later that day. There's ongoing sport so you're always changing the scripts and things are developing as you go.

So this is very much a role where you work as a team. So you have the producer who builds the programme and puts it together. The presenter will be the person that's writing the scripts and kind of researching and seeing what to put in there and then you've got our wonderful broadcast assistants who do things like build the graphics, or what we call the insets, so that's the picture that you see behind us when we start each new segment. It's an ongoing conversation, we're always discussing things. Something really big will happen in one sport and then suddenly that becomes the top story instead of the third or fourth story. So it's just being able to kind of react to what's happening and make those changes.

Producer

You will be aware there are no presenters here. That's because they're all out on lives. So we're going to go triple live tonight.

Miriam

My name's Miriam Walker-Khan and I'm an assistant producer at BBC Sport TV news. If I could sum up my job in one word, it would be exciting. My job entails loads of different things, so we put all the TV sports news content on the news channel, on BBC Breakfast. That could be interviews with people, it could be pictures that the presenters read over or packages, where you put all the pictures together and then you do like a voiceover of the story so it's kind of all of that combined into one.

The key aspects of my role are to actually edit all the pictures and the sound and get it into the system that plays it out on the TV. So my producer will tell us what he wants and we have to just make it. If we don't do it fast enough, it doesn't go on air, so we have to be really fast all the time and we have to be really on it.

Azi

I think for women wanting a career in broadcasting, and particularly in sport, I would say this is probably the best time there's ever been for women to get into it.

Miriam

I think the positive role of women on the field is making a huge impact for us as journalists who cover sport.

Azi

In terms of sport, I think for young women and girls, seeing huge, female sports stars now, we've just had the Women's World Cup, we've got the Women's Ashes going on at the moment.

Miriam

We need women to be asking the questions, to be at the events. We need women who know what it's like to go through issues, like, whether it's about equal pay or, I don't know, things like periods in sport, anything.

Azi

Women will start thinking about not just getting into sport, but getting into sports broadcasting. We are seeing lots more female pundits on TV across the different sports. I just think it's a really great time and that women shouldn't feel like it's something that they can't do.