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Katharine Whitehorn -- Getting the sack from 'Woman's Own' (14/33)
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A distinguished British journalist, Katharine Whitehorn was one of the first women columnists for the Observer and was their star columnist for over 30 years. Educated at Cambridge, she is recognised as someone who has transformed 20th century women's journalism. [Listener: Bob Bee]
TRANSCRIPT: We got married in a little parish church in... Preshute church in Marlborough. And Gavin came from a Quaker background, and Quakers don’t christen. They reckon you can’t decide you’re a Christian until you’re grown up and know what you believe. And Gavin certainly wasn’t going to get christened just to get married. But the clergyman of this little parish church managed to dig out some church rule which said... I suppose it had been devised for missionaries in the field, that a Christian could marry a heathen all right, so long as the heathen understood the meaning of Christian matrimony. My father said, 'Doesn’t mean he has to like it, just has to know what it is'. You know?
So that was fine and we had a honeymoon in the West Country... Dorset and places like that. And then went back and had a flat in London. And by that time Gavin was working for the ‘Sunday Graphic’ and I was working for ‘Woman’s Own’, which was not a particularly choice experience but it was nice to be in work. I was supposed to be an assistant editor filling in for somebody who was having a baby. And it was run at that point by a really deranged man called Jimmy Drawbell, who I think wanted to keep a tremendous atmosphere, like Fleet Street, you know, crisis to crisis, simply I think because otherwise it would all be far too calm running a woman’s magazine.
But he wasn’t a nice man to work for at all and I had a perfectly miserable time. And then I... by the summer I went and said, 'Well look, I can’t stand this any longer, I want to resign'. And he said, 'Oh Katie, so disloyal... what do you want to do, what would like to be?' So I said, 'I’d like to be a part time feature writer'. So he said, 'Well you can be'. So I was put in a small room at the end of a long corridor with quite amazingly... Jimmy Leasor, who was later a brilliant thriller writer, and Bill Barnett later known as Correlli Barnett, a very distinguished military historian. And what either of them were doing on ‘Woman’s Own’ heaven knowns.
And then the next November, Bill Barnett and I were sacked together, five hours’ notice and a week’s pay. Which you could do in those days. So there we were. I was out of a job. And Gavin was actually coming unstuck from something else at the time. And it was a kind of miserable moment. But I don’t know, even that, you see, was a good thing in the end, because supposing that... just supposing that I hadn’t been sacked from ‘Woman’s Own’, and had risen to be a editor of women’s magazines, do you think this would have been as much fun as the life I’ve had? No.
Part 1 Exclusive footage from the Olympic Torch journey by 771 Squadron
ROYAL NAVY SEARCH AND RESCUE SQUADRON CARRY OLYMPIC FLAME TO LANDS END
The Olympic Flame was flown early morning on Saturday 19 May by a Royal Navy Search and Rescue Squadron helicopter from Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose, where the Flame had remained overnight, to Lands End for the start of the Olympic Torch Relay.
The 771 Naval Air Squadron Sea King Helicopter arrived at Lands end at 7.00 am where Lieutenant Commander Richard Full carried the lantern to the world-famous signpost at Land's End, where the first Torch was lit supported by a crowd of local residents and dignitaries.
The very proud crew who flew the flame were:
• Lieutenant Commander Martin Shepherd, (Pilot and Commanding Officer of 771 Naval Air Squadron)
• Lieutenant Chris Whittington (Pilot)
• Lieutenant Commander Richard Full (Observer)
• Corporal Justin Morgan (Aircrewman)
Lieutenant Commander Richard Full was chosen as the Sailor who carried the lantern to the start of the Torch Relay from the aircraft. Richard said: As an avid sportsman and a firm believer in the ethos of the Olympic Games, I was extremely proud and honoured to be invited to carry the Olympic Flame on its short journey from one of our Search and Rescue aircraft to the starting point for London 2012. This is most definitely a 'once-in-a-lifetime' opportunity as I doubt whether I, or many of my fellow West Country men and women will see the Olympic Flame pass through their towns and villages again during their lifetimes.
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:51 1 Customers
00:01:39 2 History
00:02:14 2.1 Lowestoft laboratory
00:04:40 2.2 Conwy laboratory
00:05:54 2.3 Weymouth laboratory
00:07:46 2.4 Burnham-on-Crouch laboratory
00:09:22 2.5 Ships
00:10:26 2.6 Notable alumni
00:13:13 3 Cefas Technology Limited
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The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) is an executive agency of the United Kingdom government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). It carries out a wide range of research, advisory, consultancy, monitoring and training activities for a large number of customers around the world.Cefas employs over 550 staff based primarily at two specialist laboratories within the UK, with additional staff based at small, port-based offices in Scarborough, Hayle and Plymouth. In 2014 Cefas established a permanent base in the Middle East by opening an office in Kuwait, and since opened an office in Oman. They also operate an ocean-going research vessel Cefas Endeavour.
Transatlantic flight | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:02 1 History
00:02:16 1.1 First transatlantic flights
00:11:25 1.2 Commercial airship flights
00:13:49 1.3 Commercial aeroplane service attempts
00:24:07 1.4 Maturation
00:31:17 1.5 Present day
00:36:08 2 Transatlantic routes
00:39:07 2.1 Busiest transatlantic routes
00:39:27 3 Notable transatlantic flights and attempts
00:39:38 3.1 1910s
00:43:43 3.2 1920s
00:49:20 3.3 1930s
00:54:37 3.4 1940s
00:56:10 3.5 1950s
00:57:22 3.6 1970s
00:57:49 3.7 1980s
00:58:08 4 Other early transatlantic flights
01:01:47 5 Notable transatlantic flights of the 21st century
01:03:33 6 Failed transatlantic attempts of the 21st century
01:05:00 7 Records
01:05:44 8 See also
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A transatlantic flight is the flight of an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe, Africa, or the Middle East to North America, Central America, or South America, or vice versa. Such flights have been made by fixed-wing aircraft, airships, balloons, and other aircraft.
Early aircraft engines did not have the reliability needed for the crossing, nor the power to lift the required fuel. There are difficulties navigating over featureless expanses of water for thousands of miles, and the weather, especially in the North Atlantic, is unpredictable. Since the middle of the 20th century, however, transatlantic flight has become routine, for commercial, military, diplomatic, and other purposes. Experimental flights (in balloons, small aircraft, etc.) present challenges for transatlantic fliers.