Woman's Hour Power List 2014 – Game Changers

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What's Woman's Hour Power List 2014 – Game Changers about?

Which ten women in the UK have done most to game-change the way power operates in the UK, whether in culture, business, politics or campaigns? Emma Barnett, chairs our 2014 panel. From BBC Radio 4

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Woman's Hour Power List 2014 – Game Changers episodes:

04.09.2014
Power List - Game Changers Edition 3
The Woman's Hour Power List 2014 - Game Changers was finally revealed. Hear Emma Barnett, Jenni Murray, Jane Garvey and our number one Game Changer reflect on the top ten, exclusively on this podcast.
04.03.2014
Power List - Game Changers Edition 2
With the final Power List meeting completed, how do our judges feel about the top ten Game Changers list? Emma Barnett, Reni Eddo-Lodge and Rachel Johnson reveal some of the emotion behind the list.
03.19.2014
Power List - Game Changers Edition 1
Chair of 2014's Power List, Emma Barnett, takes us through the latest deliberations for this year's top ten Game Changers. What is a Game Changer exactly? Who are the women who could be defined as a Game Changer -...
12.16.2013
Lady Barbara Judge
Lady Barbara Judge CBE has been a pioneer for women in the worlds of law, banking and business, and is known as one of the best connected women in Britain. She is Chairman Emerita of the UK Atomic Energy Authority...
12.11.2013
Sara Thornton
Number 18 on our Woman's Hour Power List, Sara Thornton, Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police joins Jenni to talk about what drew her to policing 27 years ago, the changing culture for women officers in the force in that...
12.09.2013
Marisa Drew
Marisa Drew works at Credit Suisse where she is the company’s most senior female investment banker in Europe, responsible for multi-billion pound deals. She talks to Jane Garvey about her career as an investment banker.
11.28.2013
Power Lister Baroness Hale
Lady Hale is Deputy President of the Supreme Court. Her role makes her the most senior female judge in British legal history and she remains the first and only woman to sit on the UK's highest court. Educated in the...
11.25.2013
Louise Casey November 25th 2013
Louise Casey is Director General of the Troubled Families Unit, charged with helping some of the country’s most in need and vulnerable people. She has spent her career in social policy and has advised the Blair,...
11.20.2013
Lady Helen Hamlyn
Helen Hamlyn is one of Britain's best known philanthropists. In 1984 her husband, the late publisher Paul Hamlyn gave her her own foundation for her 50th birthday - The Helen Hamlyn Trust. It supports the development of innovative projects which...
11.18.2013
Pinky Lilani OBE;
Woman's Hour Power Lister Pinky Lilani on the importance of making connections with others.
11.13.2013
Ann Cairns
Ann is the daughter of a Newcastle shoemaker, became one of the first women to be qualified to work on offshore oil and gas rigs and, after a successful career in banking, she now works at the finance company MasterCard...
11.12.2013
Mary Curnock Cook
Mary Curnock Cook, Chief Executive of UCAS.
11.11.2013
Professor Dame Carol Black;
Dame Professor Carol Black is the country’s leading expert adviser on health and work. The principal of Newnham College Cambridge, she was a consultant rheumatologist and a former President of the Royal College of Physicians. However, she started out in...
11.05.2013
Dido Harding
Dido Harding has been the CEO of TalkTalk Group for just over three years, having previously worked for top retailers like Sainsburys and Tesco. She’s keen to make sure that her workforce is as diverse as possible and ...
11.01.2013
Professor Sue Bailey
Professor Sue Bailey talks about her work as a child and adolescent forensic psychiatrist.
10.31.2013
Dame Julie Moore
Dame Julie Moore is Chief Executive of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. She spent ten years in clinical practice before moving into nursing management. She became a director of Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust in 1998. In 2002 she moved...
10.30.2013
Cressida Dick
Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick serves as the most senior female officer within the Metropolitan Police, a rank equivalent to that of Chief Constable outside London. During the Olympic and Paralympic games, she was national director for counter terrorism, an extension...
10.22.2013
Dr. Clare Gerada
Clare Gerada is a GP and Chair of the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners, a position she holds until November. A vocal defender of the NHS, she sprang to prominence as a leading voice in the opposition...
09.26.2013
Dame Vivien Duffield
Philanthropist Dame Vivien Duffield inherited a vast fortune in 1979 after the death of her father Sir Charles Clore, the retail tycoon who owned Selfridges, and became Chair of the Clore Foundation. In 2000 she merged this with her own...
09.26.2013
Yvette Cooper MP
Since becoming an MP, Yvette Cooper has been tipped for high office, becoming the first female Chief Secretary to the Treasury in Tony Blair’s government. She was also the first minister to take maternity leave and with husband Ed Balls,...
09.26.2013
Lady Justice Arden
Lady Justice Arden sits on the Court of Appeal and is the UK's second most senior female judge. Twenty years ago she was the first woman to be appointed to the High Court’s Chancery Division, then the first woman to...
09.26.2013
Harriet Harman MP
Harriet Harman, Labour's deputy leader and Power Lister, talks to Jane Garvey from the party's annual conference about her life in politics.
07.31.2013
Jasmine Whitbread
Jasmine Whitbread, the chief executive of Save the Children International, left her highly paid job in the commercial sector to work in the voluntary sector. She discusses what motivated her move and why she thinks a job is not worth...
07.24.2013
Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley
Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley is a philanthropist and The Shirley Foundation is one of the top 50 grant-giving foundations in Britain. She arrived in Britain on the Kinderstransport in 1939, aged five. In 1962, she founded her first software company...
07.23.2013
Professor Dame Sally Davies
Professor Dame Sally Davies is the Chief Medical Officer for England and the first woman to fill this post. She guides government decisions on diverse subjects such as superbugs, drug trials and obesity. She is also number 6 on the...
07.22.2013
Karren Brady
Karren Brady is well known as the right hand woman to Sir Alan Sugar on TV’s The Apprentice, and also as a formidable force in business – standing out not only as a huge success, but also as a woman...
07.02.2013
How to be a Powerful Woman Films
How to be a Powerful Woman - a series of Woman's Hour Power List films are launched in this live programme, presented by Jane Garvey, from the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House. Artist Tracey Emin, paralympian and Life Peer Tanni Grey...
06.12.2013
Sophie Turner Laing
Sophie Turner Laing is the Managing Director, Content of BskyB. She’s responsible for their entertainment and news channels including the likes of Sky 1 and Atlantic. As one of the 100 most powerful women on the...
06.06.2013
Ann Widdecombe & Fines Unmarried Mothers in China
Ann Widdecombe, fines for unmarried mothers in China, US author Curtis Sittenfeld and the proposed anti-social behaviour bill.
05.23.2013
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson reveals how life as a top athlete helped her prepare for the rough and tumble of politics and how she manages to persuade her 11 year old daughter to sit quietly through House of Lords debates.
05.07.2013
Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lumley is best known as the champagne-swilling fashion luvvie Patsy in the television series Absolutely Fabulous. However, alongside acting she is also known for her modelling, charitable work, and as a rights campaigner. She famously campaigned to allow Gurkha...
04.11.2013
Helena Morrissey
Helena Morrissey is the Chief Executive of her own investment company and the founder of the 30 per cent club, and a Woman's Hour Powerlister. She commented on the latest research by the Cranfield School of Management about women on...
04.05.2013
Dame Sue Ion
Dame Sue Ion has spent her life working in engineering. She’s been involved in shaping the UK’s energy policy for the future and been a prominent figure in the UK nuclear industry for decades. Her love for science...
03.28.2013
Lucy Heller, Mar 28th 2013
Lucy Heller is the Chief Executive of ARK, an organisation that oversee the running of 18 academies in disadvantaged communities throughout the UK. She is responsible for a model of education which is currently driving current government education policy. Lucy...
03.18.2013
Baroness Sue Campbell
Baroness Sue Campbell has been Chair of UK Sport for ten years now. Also Chair of Youth Sport, a former England netball international, PE teacher and university lecturer, Sue's whole life has been dedicated to sport. She joins Jane to...
02.22.2013
Nicola Shindler
Nicola Shindler started her career in 1993 at Granada Television and eventually became script editor on crime drama Cracker. She went on to become an Assistant Producer on the BBC’s Our Friends in the North and then in 1998, she...
02.19.2013
Frances O'Grady
Frances O’Grady took up her post as the General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress last month, the first woman to hold that post in its 145 year history. Last week the panel for the Woman’s Hour Power List ranked...
02.14.2013
Tessa Ross
Jenni interviews Tessa Ross, Controller of Film and Drama at Channel 4 who is on the Woman's Hour power list.
02.13.2013
Rt Hon Theresa May MP
Home Secretary Theresa May has been named by the Power List judges as the most powerful woman in politics in Britain today. Overall she was only pipped to the number one slot by Her Majesty The Queen. Today Jenni talks...
02.12.2013
Heather Rabbatts
Heather Rabbatts, the first woman director of the Football Association, joins Jane to talk about her place on the Woman’s Hour power list.
02.12.2013
Power List Deliberations
Over the past couple of months Eve Pollard and her team of judges – Priti Patel MP, Val McDermid, Dawn O’Porter, Baroness Oona King and the former Woman’s Hour editor, Jill Burridge, have been making their decisions and today we...
02.12.2013
Power List Deliberations
Over the past couple of months Eve Pollard and her team of judges – Priti Patel MP, Val McDermid, Dawn O’Porter, Baroness Oona King and the former Woman’s Hour editor, Jill Burridge, have been making their decisions. Here is a...
01.23.2013
Angela Merkel
Jenni Murray interviews Angela Merkel's biographer Margaret Heckel about Merkel's life and legacy.
01.08.2013
Protest versus lobbying
What is the best way for women to engage in the political process – march and shout loudly or engage in subtle targeted persuasion? Journalist Laurie Penny and Charlotte Vere, founder of Women On, a campaign group for...
01.03.2013
The women to watch in 2013
As the Woman's Hour Power List judges consider who the most powerful women in the UK are at the start of 2013, we take a look at the women who will come to prominence as the year progresses. Jenni speaks...
12.28.2012
What to wear for success
The 80s was the decade associated with power dressing. But what would a 21st century woman choose to wear for success?
12.21.2012
A female old boy's network?
Do women have an effective equivalent of the old boys’ network? And is it possible to name our power list without the advantage of hindsight?
12.14.2012
Does Power Change You
It was Lord Acton, the British historian, who said: “All power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Is it possible to become powerful and still be the same person you once were? Margaret Beckett, Labour MP for...
12.07.2012
Britain and the World and Is Power Sexy?
If we were making a global power list, who would be on it? Angela Merkel and Hilary Clinton are a given. Who are the rest? Jenni is joined by Paola Totaro; vice president of the Foreign Press Association in London...
11.30.2012
Celebrity Power
Why do we give celebrities such power, and how seriously should celebrities take their status as role models? Jenni is joined by Myleene Klass, musician, presenter and model, and by Dan Wootton, showbiz journalist.

What's Woman's Hour Power List 2014 – Game Changers about?

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Woman's Hour Power List 2014 – Game Changers episodes:

Power List - Game Changers Edition 3

Power List - Game Changers Edition 2

Power List - Game Changers Edition 1

Lady Barbara Judge

Sara Thornton

Marisa Drew

Power Lister Baroness Hale

Louise Casey November 25th 2013

Lady Helen Hamlyn

Pinky Lilani OBE;

Ann Cairns

Mary Curnock Cook

Professor Dame Carol Black;

Dido Harding

Professor Sue Bailey

Dame Julie Moore

Cressida Dick

Dr. Clare Gerada

Dame Vivien Duffield

Yvette Cooper MP

Lady Justice Arden

Harriet Harman MP

Jasmine Whitbread

Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley

Professor Dame Sally Davies

Karren Brady

How to be a Powerful Woman Films

Sophie Turner Laing

Ann Widdecombe & Fines Unmarried Mothers in China

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson

Joanna Lumley

Helena Morrissey

Dame Sue Ion

Lucy Heller, Mar 28th 2013

Baroness Sue Campbell

Nicola Shindler

Frances O'Grady

Tessa Ross

Rt Hon Theresa May MP

Heather Rabbatts

Power List Deliberations

Power List Deliberations

Angela Merkel

Protest versus lobbying

The women to watch in 2013

What to wear for success

A female old boy's network?

Does Power Change You

Britain and the World and Is Power Sexy?

Celebrity Power