Exclusive: The BBC’s decision to include two transgender activists on a list celebrating successful women has proved divisive among journalists at the UK broadcaster.
The 100 Women project was established in 2013 to celebrate the achievements of women from all walks of life. Transgender women have featured in the past, but questions have grown about their inclusion as the BBC has made impartiality its top priority under Tim Davie, the director-general.
The 2022 list features two trans women who have helped further the cause of trans rights. Erika Hilton was thrown out onto the streets by her conservative family but became the first Black trans woman to be elected to Brazil’s National Congress. Efrat Tilma was the first trans woman to volunteer for the Israeli police.
Hilton and Tilma’s presence was noted by readers, some of whom hijacked a conversation started by the 100 Women Twitter account to complain about the list.
The 100 Women project was established in 2013 to celebrate the achievements of women from all walks of life. Transgender women have featured in the past, but questions have grown about their inclusion as the BBC has made impartiality its top priority under Tim Davie, the director-general.
The 2022 list features two trans women who have helped further the cause of trans rights. Erika Hilton was thrown out onto the streets by her conservative family but became the first Black trans woman to be elected to Brazil’s National Congress. Efrat Tilma was the first trans woman to volunteer for the Israeli police.
Hilton and Tilma’s presence was noted by readers, some of whom hijacked a conversation started by the 100 Women Twitter account to complain about the list.
- 12/9/2022
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Nicole Kidman is an open book, but one radio host poked the bear a little too much. Kidman, 49, joined BBC Radio’s “Woman’s Hour” host Jenni Murray for a candid conversation that tackled everything from relationships to foster children. The Academy Award-winning actress was open to discussing the relationship she has with her two eldest […]...
- 1/20/2017
- by Shakiel Mahjouri
- ET Canada
Read More:'bfi London Film Festival Adds 'Steve Jobs,' 'A Bigger Splash,' 'High Rise,' 'Black Mass,' & More The BFI has revealed its three-month, UK-wide 2015 series, "Love: Films to Fall in Love With... Films to Break Your Heart," sponsored by UK internet provider, Plusnet. News that Mike Newell, Tess Morris and Jenni Murray will discuss love on the big and small screen at the BFI Southbank has also just been announced. Heather Stewart, Creative Director of the BFI said, "Film can bring love to life more powerfully than any other art form – it is cinema's most seductive illusion and has transformed the way we see ourselves, and our love lives. Our season is not about sex. We’re getting back to Love: embracing the intimacy of the close-up and the anticipation of the much longed-for screen kiss: the very language of cinema itself." With this aim,...
- 9/22/2015
- by Elle Leonsis
- Indiewire
George Clooney hasn't shied away from gushing about Amal since they got married in September 2014, and he was still talking about his gorgeous wife as he made the press rounds for Tomorrowland. In a radio interview with BBC's Jenni Murray last week, he responded to the question of having children with a simple, "I don't know," but had plenty to say about his "very strong" wife, whom he said he's "very proud to be married" to. Read on for quotes. On Amal: "She's someone that I enjoy spending every minute of the day with and I'm very proud to be around, watching the things that she does I admire so greatly. I've always been involved in things other than this business long before I was successful at it, but she's been doing it kind of quietly and unheralded for a long, long period of time." On being called a power...
- 5/28/2015
- by Lauren-Turner
- Popsugar.com
John Thomson and Kate Adie are among the famous faces who will take part in this year's Christmas series of University Challenge.
Notable graduates from 14 universities and colleges will compete to become the series champions - and earn Jeremy Paxman's approval, of course.
Thomson will be fighting for the honour of Manchester Metropolitan University along with Gordon Taylor from the Professional Footballers' Association, actor Bernard Hill and Eddie Morland from the Health and Safety Laboratory.
Meanwhile, Adie is batting for Newcastle along with journalist Giles Fraser.
Other teams competing include King's College, Cambridge; Trinity Hall, Cambridge - featuring actor Dan Starkey; Royal Holloway - with a team including broadcaster Francis Wheen; and York, who will include broadcaster Adam Hart-Davis in their squad.
Warwick University have novelist Jonathan Coe in their ranks, while Leeds University, Balliol College, Oxford, Surrey University and Goldsmiths, London will also all field teams.
Meanwhile, actor Samuel West,...
Notable graduates from 14 universities and colleges will compete to become the series champions - and earn Jeremy Paxman's approval, of course.
Thomson will be fighting for the honour of Manchester Metropolitan University along with Gordon Taylor from the Professional Footballers' Association, actor Bernard Hill and Eddie Morland from the Health and Safety Laboratory.
Meanwhile, Adie is batting for Newcastle along with journalist Giles Fraser.
Other teams competing include King's College, Cambridge; Trinity Hall, Cambridge - featuring actor Dan Starkey; Royal Holloway - with a team including broadcaster Francis Wheen; and York, who will include broadcaster Adam Hart-Davis in their squad.
Warwick University have novelist Jonathan Coe in their ranks, while Leeds University, Balliol College, Oxford, Surrey University and Goldsmiths, London will also all field teams.
Meanwhile, actor Samuel West,...
- 12/5/2014
- Digital Spy
The lineup for this year's Pointless Celebrities series has been announced by BBC One.
Beginning with an August 9 comedy special, the upcoming series will feature different themes each week.
Four teams of two from the world of music, TV, soaps, sport, food and drink, journalism, radio and theatre will compete for charity in weekly specials to air on Saturday evenings on BBC One.
The first show pits Lesley Joseph and Linda Robson from Birds of a Feather against Ronni Ancona and Phil Cornwell, Su Pollard and Ruth Madoc, and Josh Widdicombe and his partner Sara Pascoe.
Standout teams from the series include Stefan Dennis and fellow Neighbours star Rebekah Elmaloglou, who will square off against Ray Quinn and Louis Emerick from Brookside.
Antony Costa from Blue will team with 5ive's Scott Robinson in the music special, while TV stars Louie Spence and Carol McGiffin will face off against the likes...
Beginning with an August 9 comedy special, the upcoming series will feature different themes each week.
Four teams of two from the world of music, TV, soaps, sport, food and drink, journalism, radio and theatre will compete for charity in weekly specials to air on Saturday evenings on BBC One.
The first show pits Lesley Joseph and Linda Robson from Birds of a Feather against Ronni Ancona and Phil Cornwell, Su Pollard and Ruth Madoc, and Josh Widdicombe and his partner Sara Pascoe.
Standout teams from the series include Stefan Dennis and fellow Neighbours star Rebekah Elmaloglou, who will square off against Ray Quinn and Louis Emerick from Brookside.
Antony Costa from Blue will team with 5ive's Scott Robinson in the music special, while TV stars Louie Spence and Carol McGiffin will face off against the likes...
- 7/25/2014
- Digital Spy
Radio 4 has launched a Children in Need charity auction to allow listeners to see the station as never before, offering fans the chance to meets the stars and witness how the programmes are put together.
Children in Need's Pudsey Bear visited the broadcaster to help launch the fundraising activities earlier this week.
The auction launches today (November 9) on Saturday Live and prizes on offer include the chance to go for a country walk and pub lunch with Clare Balding, watch a Test Match next summer and meet the Tms team, a lesson in how to read the Shipping Forcast and the rare chance to get a guided tour of The Archers' Birmingham studios.
More details on the prizes are below:
- The Archers: join the team for a rare behind-the-scenes experience of Britain's best-known village. Receive a guided tour of The Archers' Birmingham studios with an opportunity to meet some...
Children in Need's Pudsey Bear visited the broadcaster to help launch the fundraising activities earlier this week.
The auction launches today (November 9) on Saturday Live and prizes on offer include the chance to go for a country walk and pub lunch with Clare Balding, watch a Test Match next summer and meet the Tms team, a lesson in how to read the Shipping Forcast and the rare chance to get a guided tour of The Archers' Birmingham studios.
More details on the prizes are below:
- The Archers: join the team for a rare behind-the-scenes experience of Britain's best-known village. Receive a guided tour of The Archers' Birmingham studios with an opportunity to meet some...
- 11/9/2013
- Digital Spy
Helen Skelton has criticised her former Blue Peter boss over stunts on the children's programme.
The presenter described Alex Leger as a "bully" while the pair were being interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.
Skelton claimed that Leger often pushed the programme's presenters to the limit while he was the director.
However, Leger dismissed her statement, saying that he was just being persistent as a TV producer.
She said: "Alex Leger, you push people till they break and you know it!
"Alex - it's funny we call him a bully, in the best possible way - but he and I did a film which involved me taking on a beard of bees.
"My face was stung and swollen. And afterwards, do you remember, Alex, you came over and you said, 'The office wonder if we should do it again as they only went over your chest and neck and didn't quite cover your face'.
The presenter described Alex Leger as a "bully" while the pair were being interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.
Skelton claimed that Leger often pushed the programme's presenters to the limit while he was the director.
However, Leger dismissed her statement, saying that he was just being persistent as a TV producer.
She said: "Alex Leger, you push people till they break and you know it!
"Alex - it's funny we call him a bully, in the best possible way - but he and I did a film which involved me taking on a beard of bees.
"My face was stung and swollen. And afterwards, do you remember, Alex, you came over and you said, 'The office wonder if we should do it again as they only went over your chest and neck and didn't quite cover your face'.
- 3/31/2013
- Digital Spy
Today's extract from the book After Leveson* is by Deirdre O'Neill, a lecturer in journalism at Leeds Trinity university, who argues that Lord Justice Leveson failed to probe deeply enough into the portrayal of women in national newspapers.
Previously a journalist on magazines, she has published research on news values in the national press and is currently working on research into women and sports coverage.
The Leveson inquiry took evidence from representatives of women's groups and the report acknowledges that sexist objectification of women extends beyond Page 3-type photos, influencing the way that other women are portrayed.
On the one hand, idealised and unattainable airbrushed versions of womanhood are promoted in celebrity stories, presenting artifice, in the form of silicone breasts and hair extensions, as normality.
On the other hand, there is critical focus on women's appearance and behaviour that implicitly and explicitly reinforces narrow, stereotyped definitions of acceptable femininity.
Previously a journalist on magazines, she has published research on news values in the national press and is currently working on research into women and sports coverage.
The Leveson inquiry took evidence from representatives of women's groups and the report acknowledges that sexist objectification of women extends beyond Page 3-type photos, influencing the way that other women are portrayed.
On the one hand, idealised and unattainable airbrushed versions of womanhood are promoted in celebrity stories, presenting artifice, in the form of silicone breasts and hair extensions, as normality.
On the other hand, there is critical focus on women's appearance and behaviour that implicitly and explicitly reinforces narrow, stereotyped definitions of acceptable femininity.
- 3/7/2013
- by Roy Greenslade
- The Guardian - Film News
The Duchess of Cornwall hosted a reception to celebrate the achievements of outstanding women this week.
The guest list at the Clarence House event included a number of leading women from the media, led by the BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour presenter Jenni Murray, and featured comic Ruby Wax, author Kathy Lette and human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger.
The event was held in support of the Women of the World (Wow) festival at London’s Southbank Centre next week where a host of famous female artists from Annie Lennox to Sinead O’Connor will perform. Other events will feature comediennes, poets, businesswomen and entrepreneurs.
Read more...
The guest list at the Clarence House event included a number of leading women from the media, led by the BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour presenter Jenni Murray, and featured comic Ruby Wax, author Kathy Lette and human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger.
The event was held in support of the Women of the World (Wow) festival at London’s Southbank Centre next week where a host of famous female artists from Annie Lennox to Sinead O’Connor will perform. Other events will feature comediennes, poets, businesswomen and entrepreneurs.
Read more...
- 3/1/2012
- Look to the Stars
Britain's Duchess Camilla hosted a reception celebrating outstanding women last night (28.02.12). The Clarence House event was held in support of the Women of the World (Wow) festival - which takes place at London's Southbank Centre next week - and saw a variety of leading females in the media, including comic Ruby Wax, author Kathy Lette, campaigner Bianca Jagger and BBC Radio 4 presenter Jenni Murray, in attendance. Bianca was impressed by Camilla, explaining: 'I think she is a woman who really understands the role of women. She's always been very supportive about women's causes.' Bianca also stressed the importance of the Wow festival. She said: 'In the 21st century women have not been able to achieve gender equality, therefore...
- 2/29/2012
- Monsters and Critics
If you can't beat 'em, cook 'em dinner? That's the route Meryl Streep recently took with a group of prominent female journalists from England, following a screening for her latest film, "The Iron Lady." Although Streep has been praised for her performance as Margaret Thatcher, some across the Atlantic have expressed consternation over the way the film portrays the former UK prime minister. That hubbub may have led to the decision to host a personal screening and dinner party (with food cooked by Streep herself) on Nov. 12, 2011. Unfortunately, the evening seemed more awkward than auspicious. As the New Yorker's Lauren Collins stated, after the screening: "Streep plied the journalists with chicken curry and an American apple pie; she smoked in the garden, gossiped about face-lifts, did the dishes ... But the evening had its awkward moments. 'Somebody with massive, detailed knowledge of the events in Thatcher's time would sort of sniffily say,...
- 1/18/2012
- by Alex Suskind
- Moviefone
Meryl Streep, who plays Thatcher in The Iron Lady, invited me back for apple pie after a screening. But that didn't lessen my hatred for the former Tory leader
Meryl Streep is undoubtedly a great actor. Amazingly, I am not. So I did my best to act casually when she served me apple pie that she had baked herself. But my stomach was churning because of the film in which I had just seen her. She plays Margaret Thatcher in the biopic The Iron Lady. She is mesmeric on screen and indeed in the flesh.
I have never before been to a screening and then taxied with a handful of female journalists to a house where a superstar cooks for you. On the way we were given readymade gin and tonics. "I have never had one of these before," said my colleague Polly Toynbee, "it's rather lovely."
"But what are we going to say?...
Meryl Streep is undoubtedly a great actor. Amazingly, I am not. So I did my best to act casually when she served me apple pie that she had baked herself. But my stomach was churning because of the film in which I had just seen her. She plays Margaret Thatcher in the biopic The Iron Lady. She is mesmeric on screen and indeed in the flesh.
I have never before been to a screening and then taxied with a handful of female journalists to a house where a superstar cooks for you. On the way we were given readymade gin and tonics. "I have never had one of these before," said my colleague Polly Toynbee, "it's rather lovely."
"But what are we going to say?...
- 11/17/2011
- by Suzanne Moore
- The Guardian - Film News
Queen's honours list also includes CBEs for oscar-winner Colin Firth and singer Bryan Ferry, and OBEs for Ashes heroes
A collective sigh of relief will be heard across Britain, quickly followed by a suitably awful pun: "Knight to see you, to see you knight." At 83 the evergreen entertainer Bruce Forsyth has finally got his long-predicted knighthood.
The nod comes in the Queen's 2011 birthday honours list – one of 965 people whose diverse services to society, including David Cameron's "big society", are recognised on Saturday.
But after years of speculation, gossip and tabloid outrage against the tardiness of Whitehall and Buckingham Palace, Forsyth's gong is the eye-catcher. The entertainer, who is enjoying a renaissance as host of BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing, started his career at 14 and fronted countless game shows, perhaps most memorably The Generation Game. He admitted that he feared the day might never come but said the elation...
A collective sigh of relief will be heard across Britain, quickly followed by a suitably awful pun: "Knight to see you, to see you knight." At 83 the evergreen entertainer Bruce Forsyth has finally got his long-predicted knighthood.
The nod comes in the Queen's 2011 birthday honours list – one of 965 people whose diverse services to society, including David Cameron's "big society", are recognised on Saturday.
But after years of speculation, gossip and tabloid outrage against the tardiness of Whitehall and Buckingham Palace, Forsyth's gong is the eye-catcher. The entertainer, who is enjoying a renaissance as host of BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing, started his career at 14 and fronted countless game shows, perhaps most memorably The Generation Game. He admitted that he feared the day might never come but said the elation...
- 6/10/2011
- by Michael White
- The Guardian - Film News
If we believe all the eulogies to the Hollywood star, how can we say that only thin women are truly beautiful?
At the time of writing, the death of Elizabeth Taylor has yet to feature on Goop, the lifestyle website founded and run by another movie star, Gwyneth Paltrow. Admittedly, the older actress's weakness for bourbon, hot dogs and prescription drugs are not a natural fit with Gwyneth's tips for eternal life – how differently Taylor's career might have ended had she stuck to morning draughts of kale juice, "full of calcium and antioxidants" – but in the tributes following her death, many varied, usually dissonant voices have agreed that the woman, with all her fleshly vices, was a goddess and an inspiration of the sort we shall not see again.
We find Julie Burchill, for instance, who once addressed Camille Paglia as a "crazy old dyke", in full agreement with the...
At the time of writing, the death of Elizabeth Taylor has yet to feature on Goop, the lifestyle website founded and run by another movie star, Gwyneth Paltrow. Admittedly, the older actress's weakness for bourbon, hot dogs and prescription drugs are not a natural fit with Gwyneth's tips for eternal life – how differently Taylor's career might have ended had she stuck to morning draughts of kale juice, "full of calcium and antioxidants" – but in the tributes following her death, many varied, usually dissonant voices have agreed that the woman, with all her fleshly vices, was a goddess and an inspiration of the sort we shall not see again.
We find Julie Burchill, for instance, who once addressed Camille Paglia as a "crazy old dyke", in full agreement with the...
- 3/27/2011
- by Catherine Bennett
- The Guardian - Film News
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