
Episode two of “With a Typewriter and a Toothbrush: Women Reporting on World War II" begins with Clare Hollingworth’s landing in Poland at the end of August, 1939. Host Natasha Simpson follows Hollingworth from her arrival in Poland to her escape into Rumania after the Soviet Army marches into Poland. Listeners also meet Sonia Tomara, Russian aristocrat-turned-journalist whose European tour coincided with the outbreak of the Second World War, and Betty Wason, whose grit and determination in covering the Allied counter-invasion of Norway went unappreciated by CBS, on account of her sex.
Apr 28, 2020

The inaugural episode of "With a Typewriter and a Toothbrush: Women Reporting on World War II" begins in 1939, with British reporter Clare Hollingworth breaking the news that Germany was about to invade Poland. Host Natasha Simpson then takes listeners back to the Spanish Civil War, where women reported on conflict under fire, and discusses the sexism faced by all female reporters in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, and Australia during the 1930s and 40s.
Apr 24, 2019
19 min