Eve Pollard
Eve Pollard is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.
Desert Island Discs · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
Kirsty Young's castaway is the journalist and former editor Eve Pollard.
She was groomed for success by Rupert Murdoch, but made an editor by Robert Maxwell. Her career has spanned glossy magazines and tabloid journalism, breakfast television, biographies and novels. When she first worked on Fleet Street, she says, women were such a rarity that the male reporters didn't know what to make of her. "Any woman who has a high flying job, they don't know who to compare you to - you're not their mum, you're not their sister, you're not their wife - so they make you a sort of monster-nanny figure."
Producer: Leanne Buckle.