大象传媒

Sue MacGregor looks back on five decades of broadcasting in this final goodbye to Radio 4.

When Sue MacGregor quietly retired from The Reunion in 2019, there was no fanfare, montage of past heroics or on-air hullabaloo, just a spontaneous ripple of applause from the original cast of the musical "Cats".

It marked the end of 52 years of continuous broadcasting on the 大象传媒, including a unique unbroken run on Radio 4 since its inception.

In this goodbye to the network, she reflects on some of her most memorable moments, and the way broadcasting has changed since 1968.

Representing the deepest values of the 大象传媒, Sue was once described as the "crown imperial" of Radio 4, and has forged a unique relationship with listeners over the decades as the presenter of programmes like Woman鈥檚 Hour, Today, A Good Read, Conversation Piece and many more.

Radio Times readers still place her in the Top 5 of the all-time best voices on radio.

In this programme, she recalls frying eggs at Piccadilly Circus (on a famously hot day in the late 60s), the El Vino鈥檚 sit ins of the early 70s (the last men only wine bar on Fleet Street), being smuggled into Winnie Mandela鈥檚 Soweto home whilst she was under house arrest, both wedding and funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, and memorable encounters with Julie Andrews, Margaret Thatcher, Bette Davis and a very angry Conservative Party Chairman.

Producers: Ellie Clifford and David Prest

A Whistledown production for 大象传媒 Radio 4, first broadcast in September 2020.

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