"When I started as a researcher in the BBC, I was working for an editor who was a self-confessed misogynist. He used to practise shooting by aiming his air gun at an aerosol can balanced just over my head. I made it a matter of pride not to flinch as the pellets whizzed by."
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Jews from the United KingdomUniversity of Oxford alumniTelevision presentersWomen born in the 1940sWomen journalists from England
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In her RTS lecture (cited above), Rantzen recounts her experience naming the "misogynist" as Derrick Amoore.
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