Woman of Today

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Sue MacGregor is the hugely popular presenter of BBC Radio 4 s Today programme, dispatching politicians and captains of industry with a honey-coated scalpel. Its longest-serving interviewer - and the only woman on the team - she has been at the forefront of top-level journalism for nearly four decades. An accomplished writer, with a wry sense of humour, Sue MacGregor reveals what goes on behind the scenes in Radio's hotest news studios.

Her story, from early life in South Africa to some of the top jobs in BBC Radio, including fifteen years on Woman's Hour, covers the dramatic changes she saw in South Africa, women s issues, her years with BBC Radio and shares elements of her private life.

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An illuminating account of life on and on air, as told by the best-loved voice of BBC Radio 4's Today programme. From growing up in apartheid South Africa to the behind-the-scenes clashes that peppered her rise through the ranks of the beeb, Sue Macgregor writes with all the wry, quick wit that proved the undoing of many an early-morning guest - You magazine (Mail on Sunday)

...a powerful reminder that a revolution has taken place in our political culture...an engaging and sometimes sweetly ingenious book - Sunday Telegraph

It is incontrovertible that Sue MacGregor is one of the very best in the business...there is no more sustained achievement by a woman in 20th-century broadcasting... - Guardian

...it is warming to read the memoir of a woman who has avoided behaving like a bitch. - The Daily Telegraph

...what's really interesting about these memoirs...is the makeweight pages, the chapters on growing up in Cape Town and making it through the long nights of London secretarial drifting to the commanding heights of Woman's Hour. - The Observer

Author Bio

Sue MacGregor grew up in South Africa and started her broadcasting career with the South African Broadcasting Corporation. She joined the BBC as a reporter in 1962 and Woman's Hour as a presenter in 1967. She is the longest-serving presenter of Radio 4's Today programme.