Women's Parliamentary Radio
- Women's Parliamentary Radio
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network_name = Women's Parliamentary Radio
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website = [http://www.wpradio.co.uk/ www.wpradio.co.uk]
Women's Parliamentary Radio is a website which broadcasts audio and video interviews with women MPs of all parties.
All the interviews are pre-recorded and put on the website as reports which can be streamed and listened to immediately or downloaded as podcasts so that they can be listened to later. It covers topical current affairs issues which are of interest to women and their families. Where the issues that concern women are also championed by men, male MPs are interviewed too.
Aim
WPR has stated its aim as being "the Women's Hour of Westminster, reporting fairly and accurately on policy issues of concern to women and their families".
History
The project has grown out of the publication of the book [http://www.politicos.co.uk/books/25574/Boni-Sones-and-Jan-Lovenduski/Women-in-Parliament---the-New-Suffragettes%3F/?ginPtrCode=10410&identifier=4f162c5dcaebfd21bf8e958112484077 'Women in Parliament: The New Suffragettes'] by Boni Sones, Margaret Moran MP and Professor Joni Lovenduski, where women talked frankly about their lives in Parliament and their achievements to date. The project's founders are concerned that, nearly ninety years after women won the right to stand for elections to the House of Commons in 1918, only one in five Members of Parliament is a woman. [http://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/article.php?id=35]
Since WP Radio began in Spring 2007 [http://www.caithness.org/fpb/election2007/index.htm] over 80 interviews and three 1 hour documentaries have been broadcast.
Women's Parliamentary Radio has recently been shortlisted for Channel 4's Hansard Society Democracy Award [http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/domestic_politics/channel+4+political+awards+shortlist/1141452] .
Boni Sones, Executive Producer of the channel, has been nominated for the Dods & Scottish Widows female political journalist of the year. [http://www.womeninpubliclifeawards.co.uk/vote.asp]
External links
* [http://www.wpradio.co.uk Women's Parliamentary Radio website]
* [http://elleeseymour.com/2007/06/05/why-we-need-more-women-mps-by-boni-sones/ Why we need more women MPs] Executive Producer Boni Sones on founding Women's Parliamentary Radio
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