now on bbc news. janice long was the first woman to have her own show on radio one and she has passed away. her career spanned five decades and she was the first woman to present mac top of the pops. we look back at her life. it s with a band who have been together for a year. they come from leighton buzzard. it s their first appearance on top of the pops. it s kajagoogoo with too shy. janice long making history. the first regular female host on top of the pops. it s u2 in at number 23 and new year s day. she ended nearly 20 years of men dominating the presenting line up. i was absolutely thrilled to bits with the fact that i was introducing u2. and that doesn t get, you know, your first top of the pops! # all is quiet. show business ran in the family. herfirst tv appearance was alongside her younger brother, keith chegwin, on the children s show multi coloured swap shop. hello, and welcome to the show. a year later shejoined radio 1, the first woman to have a daily show on t
the former england test cricket captain, ray illingworth, has died. he was 89, and had been undergoing treatment for oesophageal cancer. he had a fifteen year test career, playing 61 times for england. joe wilson looks back at his career raymond illingworth. beautifully hooked. batsman, bowler, leader, a cricketer for all seasons. he began his career in the 1950s. it must be out. he finally stopped playing in the 1980s. just think, when he became england captain in 1969, they wondered then if he was too old. some people would say this is too old to start being captain of england? yes, well obviously it s not a ten year policy or anything like that, but i think i am still as good a bowler as i have ever been. i don t think it makes any difference. in sydney in 1971, during a fractious ashes test, he led his players off the field when beer cans were thrown from the stands. yes, he is out! the end of the match. his team mates carried illingworth off when england won the match an
this is bbc news. the main stories at the top of the hour, but first. witness history introduces us to some of the team s favourite films from the past 12 months. hello and welcome to witness history with me. here at the bbc in london. with more remarkable moments from the past as told by the people who were there. and in this episode, we present five of our most memorable recent eyewitness stories. coming up, remembering the founder of north korea. also, the forensic pioneer unearthing war crimes. why us police bombed philadelphia and afghanistan first man in space. we start with the story of a true trailblazer who made history in 1960. he became the modern world first female head of government when she was elected prime minister of sri lanka as it was known. her daughter spoke to witness history. you are the first woman prime minister. would this make your influence less or more strong? considerably more strong. do you think they ll be more capable than the problems the men
forensic pioneer unearthing war crimes, the anti nuclear protest that was the biggest women led movement in the uk since the suffragettes, and a watershed moment for canada s indigenous people. but we start in london and a story about the strikers in saris, a group of south asian women employed in the grunwick film processing factory. because of the poor working conditions there, they decided to take a stand for workers rights and their action captured the imagination of many other trade unionists, as lakshmi patel told me. for housewife mrs jayaben desai, her 220th day on the picket line was marked by a presentation. this is a presentation - on behalf of the north west london branch of usdaw, i the shop workers union, to mrs desai, who is the treasurer of the strike committee. - thank you very much for coming along. . translation: jayaben desai was a very strong woman. . she had made up her mind to bring the union into the factory. ..because our women were treated badly. we