Events
Thursday
19
FEB
2026
Listen In, a talk by Beaty Rubens (1979)
6:00pm – Online, via Zoom
Join us for a talk by Beaty Rubens (1979), an award-winning radio producer who worked at the BBC for 35 years. In this talk, she explains how she researched her book on the impact of early radio on home-life, and shares the thrilling story of an archive discovery which hugely expands our understanding of what it meant for our parents and grandparents to 'Listen In' for the very first time.
In 2025, Bodleian Libraries (at The Other Place) commissioned an exhibition on Beaty's work on the early 20th-century radio craze. The exhibition was accompanied by a book, entitled Listen In: How Radio Change the Home.
This talk will be chaired by Rosanna Moseley Gore (1979), an author with an interest in social history and exploring identity through memoirs, and a contemporary of Beaty's. There will be time for questions after Beaty's talk.