Fiona Chesterton
@FionaChesterton
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Media watcher and writer . Ex BBC and C4 journalist and commissioning editor. Author NOT THE TOKEN WOMAN and SECRETS NEVER TO BE TOLD
Cambridge
Joined April 2012
Published today, Not the Token Woman, my memoir of my time in BBC News and Current Affairs in the 70s and 80s when sexism was rife and there were few women journalists.
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She was a trailblazer indeed - one of the Lime Grove women who in the 70s made a big impact on those like me who started our careers there. @bbcquestiontime
The Question Time team are very sad to hear that the programme’s legendary Editor Barbara Maxwell has died. Barbara launched Question Time in 1979 with Robin Day and led the programme for many years. We send our sincere condolences.
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The Question Time team are very sad to hear that the programme’s legendary Editor Barbara Maxwell has died. Barbara launched Question Time in 1979 with Robin Day and led the programme for many years. We send our sincere condolences.
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Very pleased to be part of this event. Come find me at the book fair on the first Saturday.
We are so excited to launch Royston Arts Festival 2024! Over 50 events: art, crafts, events, exhibitions, literature, music, talks, tours and workshops, 20th Sept-5th Oct 👉 To view the programme: https://t.co/bLlNGoXMtB 👉 Latest news and updates: https://t.co/eZhxPf7N0V
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So sad to learn of the death of a former colleague. In a cynical age, it’s worth noting that #MichaelMosley truly believed in the power of TV to change and improve people’s lives- and he did. https://t.co/SkoHgDKveK
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MND patient’s long wait for wheelchair.Yet another aspect of the current crisis in the NHS. However, wheelchair services have been patchy for many years as I know from close personal experience.
theguardian.com
Delays at AJM Healthcare mean Rosy Bremer, 52, has spent hundreds on private hire
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This looks to be a highly significant strategic change on the way - regardless of any change in Government in the next few months.
theguardian.com
Director general is to announce plans on Tuesday to radically transform the broadcaster
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Two former insiders on the regulator which seems to be rewriting impartiality rules on TV and the dangers it poses to democracy in an election year.
theguardian.com
The law hasn’t changed. Yet the regulator is allowing these channels to transmit partisan political content, says Stewart Purvis and Chris Banatvala
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Sustainable growth in Cambridgeshire https://t.co/CskFnEyEqa. This response to the announcement made by Michael Gove of 150000 new homes suggests that this was more about electioneering by the Conservatives than a realistic plan.
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Great to see the revamped bookshelves @MuseumofCamb and to find #Secretsnevertobetold there. So if you fancy a Christmas outing to Cambridge take a walk up Bridge St towards Castle St and you’ll find it.
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Glad that the experience of women who suffered for the ‘crime’ of having a child out of wedlock is now being told - loud and proud. #secretsnevertobetold.
Rory’s book is wonderful - single mums of the 60s we salute you 👏👏👏
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Head of UK’s leading anti-monarchy group arrested at coronation protest. I am not a republican but I do believe in the freedom to protest. This is very worrying.
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Well done @scarlett_gina
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Well done@scarlett_gina.
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Sixty thousand women over three decades in Scotland alone forced to give up children - most simply for having babies out of wedlock. A U.K.wide scandal of course. My own story of a blighted childhood #secretsnevertobetold sheds more light on this taboo.
bbc.co.uk
Thousands of unmarried women in Scotland were forced to give their children up in the last century.
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This seems a particularly good day to retweet this.
75 years ago a remarkable woman, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, helped lead efforts to draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a milestone document in the history of #HumanRights. Let’s celebrate Eleanor & other trailblazing women this International Women’s Day. #IWD2023
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On International Woman’s Day, I am giving a talk to the Dumfriesshire Family History Society about the Scottish aspect of my story #secretsnevertobetold about one woman who emigrated to Canada alone, one of thousands of British women who did so.
bbc.co.uk
Thousands of events take place around the world to mark International Women's Day on 8 March.
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This is for Sky Kids whose FYI news programme for children does such good work. Well done @scarlett_gina
I meet up with some of the courageous Children of War that live in the Uk now.
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Thanks @scarlett_gina . It was such fun to record the audio version of my book with you.
This book by @FionaChesterton is a very special read for all you fans of true stories (and it was a privilege to narrate younger Fiona). https://t.co/lQQXxuvvpT
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