Janet Muriel Alexander Quigley
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(1902–1987) was a British radio broadcaster associated with the ''
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Woman's Hour
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Created by Norman Collins and originally presented by A ...
''.
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Quigley was born in
Belfast
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in 1902, in the then
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. She went to college in
Oxford
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, England, at
Lady Margaret Hall
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.
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Quigley joined the BBC in 1930 and she was responsible for "talks" aimed at women. She was the fourth woman in this role since the first women's talk in 1923. The first was Ella FitzGerald who continued until 1926 when ]Elise Sprott
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* Mbé, a town in the Republic of the Congo
* Mbe Mountains Community Forest, in Nigeria
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* Mbe' language, language of Cameroon
* ''mbe'', ISO 639 code for the extinct Molala language
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took over. There was an overlap with Margery Wace OBE in 1930-31 and Quigley took over the role in 1936.
Quigley was given an MBE Mbe may refer to:
* Mbé, a town in the Republic of the Congo
* Mbe Mountains Community Forest, in Nigeria
* Mbe language, a language of Nigeria
* Mbe' language, language of Cameroon
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for her work organising talks on the radio during the war.[ She contacted ]Clemence Dane
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After completing her education, Dane went to Switzerland to work as a French tutor, but returned ...
and asked her to contribute to her Sunday morning series, which she did, and later Quigley invited her on ''Woman's Hour''.
BBC WAC, 16 April 1942, Clemence Dane to Janet Quigley. Retrieved 1 June 2018 She contacted Donald Winnicott
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who had worked with Clare Britton, a psychiatric social worker treating children who had become evacuees. His first series of talks in 1943 was titled "Happy Children", Quigley offered him total control over the content of his talks but this soon became more consultative as Quigley advised him on the correct pitch.
Quigley left the BBC in 1945 to marry Kevin Fitzgerald who gave talks for the BBC as well as being an Irish businessman and thriller writer. He and Quigley went to live in Ireland where she became a step mother to her husband's daughter.[
The BBC flagship radio programme '']Woman's Hour
''Woman's Hour'' is a radio magazine programme broadcast in the United Kingdom on the BBC Light Programme, BBC Radio 2, and later BBC Radio 4. It has been on the air since 1946.
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Created by Norman Collins and originally presented by A ...
'' had been created by Norman Collins
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[October 1946 - Woman's Hour - The first dedicated radio programme for women]
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. Despite this, Quigley has been credited with "virtually creating" the programme
even though she did not become its editor until 1950.
Quigley believed that "hush-hush" subjects should be discussed openly as an example to the "less educated" to show that they were not taboo.