The World at One presenter on women in broadcasting,the end of the Review reveal – and why she turned down TV’s big moneyThe first time Martha Kearney appeared on the BBC she was hit by an egg intended for the then Liberal party leader, David Steel. It was 1987, and in St Albans,and Kearney was covering the general election for local commercial radio.“Someone threw an egg meant for him and it hit me,” remembers Kearney who let out a “particularly ridiculous girly scream. It ended up on the 6 O’Clock News which was not how I intended to do my BBC debut”.
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Source: theguardian.com