Woman's Hour Power List 2016 - Terms and Conditions
THE PANEL
An independent panel of judges selects the ‘Woman’s Hour Power List 2016’ – seven women who have made the biggest impact on women’s lives over seven decades.
CHAIR – Emma Barnett (Broadcaster)
Karren Brady, Business leader and life peer
Ayesha Hazarika, former Labour adviser and commentator
Abi Morgan, award-winning screenwriter
Jill Burridge, former editor of Woman’s Hour
Julia Hobsbawm, founder Editorial Intelligence
The judging panel is made up of experts from a variety of backgrounds. There is no benefit for any judge from the commercial success of the ‘Woman’s Hour Power List 2016’.
Emma Barnett will chair all judging meetings and discussions.
Woman’s Hour is inviting suggestions from listeners and guest contributors up to and including Friday November 4. From these suggestions, a shortlist of fifteen names of women who match the criteria will be produced for consideration by judges. Each judge will be invited to add one additional name to the shortlist. Suggestions will not constitute part of a formal nominations procedure.
The women on the shortlist will meet the following criteria. They:
- made an impact on women’s lives
- made an impact or change that is long-lasting
- exercised power at any point over the past seventy years
- don’t have to live in UK but impact must be felt here
- do not have to be living
Judges will select 7 names from the shortlist to produce the Woman’s Hour Power List 2016.
Listeners’ emails, social media or letters may be read out on air, published online or otherwise used by BBC in any media in connection with the programme.
All members of the panel are able to express their opinions freely and openly as part of the process. Judges are asked to report any conflict of interest (or perceived conflict of interest) to the Chair as soon as possible.
Some of the deliberation processes may be broadcast, published online or on social media, without prior consent from the judges. The Chair’s decision is final. The Woman’s Hour Power List 2016 will be published by the BBC in December 2016.
