Abstract
The early days of radio were fraught for women who wanted to get their voice heard. Anne McKay (2000) has documented some of the struggles would-be female announcers faced. Mrs. Giles Borrett, the first ever female presenter at the BBC, was highly praised by managers during her three-month trial in 1933 but was abruptly removed from her position amid alleged listeners’ complaints about the unsuitability of the female voice for radio. In addition, one suggestion stood out: that she was, as a married woman, taking a man’s job (Kamarae, 1984). Similarly, across the Atlantic in the United States in 1935,...