Women broadcasters from award-winning Bristol radio station BCfm 93.2 will celebrate International Woman’s Day next Tuesday with 12 hours of broadcasting.
The community station’s flagship morning show ‘One Love Breakfast’, which starts at 7am, will hand over to the all-female presenters from 8am and every programme after will be hosted by women and feature women’s issues, music and history. 
Topics will cover fair trade, health, FGM, politics, LGBT issues and more.
The 12 hours of broadcasting will wind down in the evening with the ‘Sports Bar’ presented by Amy Kingdon and featuring a studio full of sportswomen, and will then come to a close with an inspirational message from the station’s all-female board.
Station manager Patrick Hart said: “Here at BCfm we’d like to think that our amazing women are celebrated 365 days of the year. It’s no secret that over the last few years our board of directors have been almost exclusively women and on that basis BCfm have gone from strength to strength.
“I’m proud of our diversity and with our ‘Getting Bristol Home’ strand, hosted by a member of the trans-gender community, we’re illustrating a real inclusiveness which should be a blueprint for the rest of the community to follow.
“So I say to everyone – including our male presenters – don’t feel threatened, feel empowered. That’s what I’ve come to expect from us all.”
Guests during the 12-hour International Woman’s Day broadcast will include Beverly Douglas, Black Police Association; Penny Gane and Sian Webb, Bristol Women’s Voice; Kirsten Hemingway, writer, actress and entrepreneur; Liz Earle, internationally renowned founder of Liz Earle Botanical Skin Care; Niha Mehta, Bristol Youth Mayor; Madge Dresser, author and historian; Pamela Cooky, England international netball champion; and Liz Small, RA Cultural Consultancy.
BCfm won the Radio Academy ‘Nations and Regions’ Sony gold award for the best station in the South West in 2010 and the BME Community Award for Improving People’s Lives in 2013.
It also scooped the ‘Best Idea into Action’ award from Voscur in 2013/2014 and was shortlisted for the National Diversity Awards in 2015.
The station, which was awarded a full-time licence in 2006 by Ofcom and started broadcasting in March 2007, has had more than 700 people working as volunteers since it began as presenters, producers or researchers.
