Murphy, Kate – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Sat, 23 Apr 2022 10:06:18 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Murphy, Kate – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 You’re Not Listening https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/youre-not-listening/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/youre-not-listening/ ‘BRILLIANT’ Chris Evans, Virgin Radio Breakfast Show

When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you?

This life-changing book will transform your conversations forever.

At work, we’re taught to lead the conversation.

On social media, we shape our personal narratives.

At parties, we talk over one another. So do our politicians.

We’re not listening.

And no one is listening to us.

Now more than ever, we need to listen to those around us. New York Times contributor Kate Murphy draws on countless conversations she has had with everyone from priests to CIA interrogators, focus group moderators to bartenders, her great-great aunt to her friend’s toddler, to show how only by listening well can we truly connect with others.

Listening has the potential to transform our relationships and our working lives, improve our self-knowledge, and increase our creativity and happiness. While it may take some effort, it’s a skill that can be learnt and perfected.

When all we crave is to understand and be understood, You’re Not Listening shows us how.

* With a new afterword by the author *

‘This book couldn’t be more timely. Inspiringly profound…smart and playful‘ Observer

‘I’ll be adopting Murphy’s advice‘ Sunday Times, Style

]]> Behind the Wireless https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/behind-the-wireless/ Mon, 09 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/behind-the-wireless/ Behind the Wireless tells the story of women at the BBC in the 1920s and 30s. Broadcasting was brand new in Britain and the BBC developed without many of the overt discriminatory practices commonplace at the time. Women were employed at all levels, except the very top, for instance as secretaries, documentary makers, advertising representatives, and librarians. Three women held Director level posts, Hilda Matheson (Director of Talks), Mary Somerville (Director of School Broadcasting), and Isa Benzie (Foreign Director). Women also produced the programmes aimed at female listeners and brought women broadcasters to the microphone. There was an ethos of equality and the chance to rise through the ranks from accounts clerk to accompanist. But lurking behind the façade of modernity were hidden inequalities in recruitment, pay, and promotion and in 1932 a marriage bar was introduced. Kate Murphy examines how and why the interwar BBC created new opportunities for women.  

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