Helena Morrissey on Rachael Heyhoe Flint
City boss Helena Morrissey champions the life of Rachael Heyhoe Flint as her great life.
Great Lives · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
City boss Dame Helena Morrissey champions the life of Rachael Heyhoe Flint, the pioneer of women's cricket.
Regarded as a ground breaker, Baroness Heyhoe Flint ruffled feathers and shook up a male dominated sport.
Helena Morrissey makes the case for why Heyhoe Flint is a great life.
With Matthew Parris and Dr Raf Nicholson who teaches history at Queen Mary University of London and is a writer on the women's game
Dame Helen has also made it to the top of her career in a male dominated word of the City. She is founder of the 30% Club, a campaign group whose aim is to get a minimum of 30% women on FTSE-100 boards. Now working as Head of Personal Investing with Legal and General Investment Management.
Producer: Perminder Khatkar
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2017.