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Radio 4,18 Mar 2012,42 mins

Anna Ford

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Kirsty Young's castaway is the broadcaster Anna Ford. One of the first high profile women in news, she worked for Granada, ITV and the BBC before retiring after more than thirty years on our screens. One of her professional pairings was presenting the News at 10 with Reginald Bosanquet, she remembers how he would try to unsettle her during broadcasts: "I adored Reggie, he would land either obscene poems or love poems on my script just before I was to about to read it to camera and I would catch just a sight of this and it was almost impossible not to laugh." Producer: Leanne Buckle.

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    It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t got that Swing
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
  3. 2.
    Bach Concerto for Two Violins and Strings in D Minor
    Bach Concerto for Two Violins and Strings in D Minor
    Johann Sebastian Bach
  4. 3.
    Seasonal birdsong (sound effects) recorded in May in Kent
    Seasonal birdsong (sound effects) recorded in May in Kent
    Dawn Chorus