Global, the Media & Entertainment group, is celebrating International Women’s Day with a week of on-air programming initiatives, playlist takeovers and internal events for staff.
In the year that commercial radio celebrates its 50-year anniversary, the Media & Entertainment Group shines a light on the amazing women who help the radio brands reach over 26 million listeners every week, as well as showcasing an array of artists and music genres from, dance to classical.
Global’s entertainment app, Global Player, features specially curated playlists and podcasts including Smooth Leading Ladies, Capital XTRA Firebabes, and cross-branded offerings; Women Who Rock and Queens of Pop, Women Who Shine Bright (curated by Global staff) while on air Capital is launching an International Women’s Day playlist on Global Player, The Hype Gals, with bespoke messages from different artists and celebs, including P!nk, Lizzo, Zara Larsson, Mimi Webb, Tate McRae, Ella Henderson, Freya Ridings and Mae Stephens.
Across this week every day at 11am the fantastic Capital Dance female DJ line up of Coco Cole, Meg McHugh, Zofia Rodgers, Charlie Powell and Matty Chiabi are live in the mix on the radio and in vision on Global Player and TikTok.
Capital Dance is celebrating women in dance music with a special Digital Series with Matty Chiabi. Throughout March, Matty will take a deep dive into the female focussed issues within dance music, interviewing some of the most exciting women within the genre right now, including Piri and Girls Don’t Sync. They will exchange stories, anecdotes, lessons and their personal experiences of being a woman in the genre.
Smooth presenters including Breakfast with Jenni Falconer, mid-morning with Kate Garraway and afternoons with Angie Greaves will feature a female artist at the top of each hour and will celebrate female musicians from the playlist on socials.
At 1pm today on Radio X, Issy Panayis will feature ‘Best of British’ – one hour of all female British indie and rock musicians, as well as having female focused features across the whole week on the Radio X Evening Show.
Classic FM is marking International Women’s Day with moments from dawn to dusk, starting with Katie Breathwick’s Dawn Chorus, a choral piece by Amy Beach sung by the Choir of Pembroke College directed by the award-winning, and recent star of Classic FM Live, Anna Lapwood. Lucy Coward’s Hall of Fame 3 at 3 is three entries from the Classic FM Hall of Fame all composed by female composers (Clara Schumann, Debbie Wiseman and Eimear Quinn) while Margherita Taylor will start her programme with an hour of female composers and performers at 10pm and Classic FM will also showcase a special short film with young violinist and Classic FM Rising Star, Esther Abrami and the Her Ensemble.
Heart has Gold Medal winning Paralympian Ellie Simmonds on with Breakfast to discuss with Amanda Holden why International Women’s Day is so important, what we can do to celebrate, and the women that have inspired her in her life. From 8am to 9am there will also be an all-female playlist showcasing some of the best songs from the amazing female artists that have made Heart what it is today. Heart’s decades stations, 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s, will also provide the ultimate nostalgia hit.
For Globallers, the Women@Global employee network have In Conversation events with Helen Pankhurst and Emily Maitlis, a Capital XTRA Book Club special with Leah Davis speaking to author and poet Sophia Thakur.
