BBC Girl Executive
FOR the first time in its history the BBC has promoted a girl secretary from the ranks to an important executive position. She is Ruth Bratt, 25, of Torquay, secretary to Felix Felton, West Regional programme director. She is now junior assistant for programmes on the staff which went .to establish the service of the Malayan Broadcasting Corporation in Singapore for the Colonial Office. Miss Bratt, who had never previously been out of England, told the "Daily Mirror "’: ; "It is a big plunge to take a job like this in a war, but I feel it will be really important war work. We shall broadcast n 12 different languages, and I am now busy learning Malayan. The BBC has never previously given a girl of my age an administrative appointment. like this,"
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 85, 7 February 1941, Page 41
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135BBC Girl Executive New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 85, 7 February 1941, Page 41
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