Larry King: The man behind Billie Jean King’s feminist tennis revolution
JUN 5, 202627 MIN
Larry King: The man behind Billie Jean King’s feminist tennis revolution
JUN 5, 202627 MIN
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<p>Larry King teamed up with his wife Billie Jean King to start the women’s professional tennis circuit in the USA.</p><p>Baroness Ramsay was MI6 Head of Station in Helsinki during the Cold War and then became a leading figure in Labour politics.</p><p>Caroline Marland transformed the financial fortunes of The Guardian newspaper as a senior executive in the 1980s and 90s. </p><p>Valie Export challenged centuries of misuse of the female body from male artists by exhibiting her own form for controversial performances.</p><p>Archive used: Women’s Tennis Association, 03/2024; VisNews, 01/05/1981; BBC News, 12/09/1985; Secrets and Spies: A Nuclear Game, BBC Two, 08/05/2024; BBC Parliament, 02/12/2015; The Money Programme, BBC Two, 14/02/1988; Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4, 01/06/2000</p><p>Presenter: Matthew Bannister
Producer: Ben Mitchell
Assistant Producer: Ribika Moktan
Researcher: Josie Hardy
Editor: Andrea Kennedy</p>