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Great Lives: Helena Morrissey on Rachael Heyhoe Flint

Helena Morrissey on Rachael Heyhoe Flint.

Helena Morrissey on Rachael Heyhoe Flint

BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Helena Morrissey on Rachael Heyhoe Flint

City boss Helena Morrissey champions the life of Rachael Heyhoe Flint as her great life.

4 Extra Debut. Business leader Dame Helena Morrissey chooses pioneer of women’s cricket, Rachael Heyhoe Flint. With Matthew Parris. From 2017.

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.

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