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The Boxing Civil Servant

23/02/2009

BBC Radio 4 Extra - It's My Story, The Boxing Civil Servant

Jackie Ashley tells the story of how her friend began a new career as a boxing promoter.

4 Extra Debut. Journalist Jackie Ashley tells the story of her civil servant friend who decided she wanted to be a boxing promoter. From February 2009.

Journalist Jackie Ashley tells the story of how her fifty-something friend Miranda Carter, a high-flying civil servant at the Department of Transport, astonished friends and family when she announced that she was applying for a licence as a boxing promoter. 

By day she continues to work in the corridors of power in Whitehall, but in the evenings and at weekends she mixes with the raucous boxing crowd of York Hall, Bethnal Green, in the East End of London.

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