Global celebrates International Women’s Day!

Global’s radio brands, which reach over 26.6 million listeners every week, combined with huge reach on social and via Global Player, are showcasing artists across genres from classical to dance.

Global’s entertainment app, Global Player, features specially curated playlists and podcasts, while all week Global’s stations have been celebrating women in music with the stations coming together on International Women’s Day to mark the day.

Heart Breakfast with Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden is celebrating the women of the future with lots of young inspirational female Heart listeners on air all throughout the show! 10-year-old Poppy who’s swimming the English Channel, 12-year-old Alesha who’s making her footballing dreams come true, and 11-year-old Olivia, the youngest girl ever to compete in professional motocross!

Heart has a one-off round of The Parent Trap with the three most important women in Amanda’s life – her mum and her two daughters. Heart’s music will include the first hour of every show, dedicated to an hour with the biggest female artists, while on Drive, Emma Bunton will talk about how the Spice Girls inspired a new wave of girl power in the 90s.

Heart’s presenters will also be reflecting on International Women’s Day in a special video for social, with Emma Bunton, Amanda Holden, Mark Wright, Anna Whitehouse and Zoe Harding.

On Global Player the Heart team have curated the Queens of Pop playlist.

Heart Scotland celebrates International Women’s Day with a host of inspirational Scottish women on air through the day… including Kirsty Mack (sixth Scottish woman to climb Mount Everest), Elaine Hopley (record holder for fastest woman to row solo across the Atlantic), Julie Lin (TV chef and restauranteur), Shirely Martin (Head of Girls and Women’s Football at the Scottish Football Association), Rose Reily (legend of women’s football and member of the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame), Emily Hampshire (award winning actor), Kirsten Watson (CEO of Glasgow Children’s Hospital) and Jamie Genevieve (makeup artists and business woman).

Corrie Martin (Head of News) will also be hosting an ‘in conversation with’ Q&A session with Kirsty Mack and Elaine Hopley in the Glasgow boardroom on Thursday 7th March for all Scotland staff.

Capital Breakfast will be celebrating International Women’s Day with three women at the top of their chosen field.  At 7am, Stranger Things actor, Millie Bobbie Brown, is on the show, followed by the biggest name in British music right now…RAYE! RAYE is on at 8am before an hour of music from the biggest female artists at 9am, followed by Gabby Logan, the host of brand new podcast The Sports Agents, which flew straight to number one in the podcast charts on launch day. All three women will reflect on their experience of being a woman in their respective worlds of entertainment, music and sports broadcasting.

On Global Player, Capital presenters Rio Fredrika and Aimee Vivian celebrate the female music forces slaying it right now in Capital‘s live playlist Fave Females, on Global Player.

Capital Dance is going ‘In The Mix’ for International Women’s Day 2024! Five of the world’s biggest female DJs are going ‘In The Mix’ to celebrate women everywhere, and of course the best in dance music! The incredible week-long line-up is incredible, featuring Jazzy, Alex Mills, A Little Sound (bringing the D&B vibes), Hannah Wants plus on Friday – Tita Lau will be dropping some huge tunes!

For Capital XTRA breakfast presenters Robert and Shayna Marie have spent the week challenging Capital XTRA DJs to do a mix with as many songs from a female artist as possible, including Shayna Marie challenging Manny Norte to mix as many Beyonce songs as possible in ten minutes. For the first hour of each show the station features Female Double Plays – two female tracks back-to-back. International Women’s Day itself falls on Hip Hop Fridays, with Queens of Hip Hop mixes in every show on the day. From 7pm, Teeshow, DJ Semtex, Kennedy Taylor are in the mix on Friday nights with special segments to celebrate women in music.

On Global Player, the ‘Fire Babes’ playlist is Capital XTRA’s specially curated playlist celebrating musical contributions of female artists in Hip Hop & RnB. On social, celebratory posts feature swipe throughs of iconic women and collaborations and montages of female guests that have been in on Capital XTRA. Online The Women of Capital XTRA – an article on capitalxtra.com – features the women behind Capital XTRA (staff and presenters) has inspiring advice on working in the industry.

Classic FM is marking International Women’s Day by playing music through the day, pairing female composers of the past with female composers of today, including wide ranging pairings like Louise Farrenc with Pinar Toprak (writer of ‘Captain Marvel’), Amy Beach with young British composer Rebecca Dale, and Fanny Mendelssohn with Anne Dudley.

On Global Player the team have curated ‘Classic FM Women in Classical’ and it includes female composers ranging from Hélène de Montgeroult (an 18th century escapee from the French revolution) to Florence Price, and video game music composer Yoko Shimomura, alongside trailblazing women performers like Anna Lapwood, Isata Kanneh-Mason and Yuja Wang. Then from 10pm-midnight Classic FM has 100% brilliant female composers and performers. Bespoke social content includes an exclusive session of young rising star violinist Deniz Şensoy and pianist Dina Duisen playing ‘Romance’ by pioneering composer Amy Beach, the first American woman to publish a symphony, filmed in the Purcell Room at the iconic Southbank Centre.

ClassicFM.com will focus on a series of articles including ‘best pieces by Fanny Mendelssohn’ and a profile piece on the inspiring French composer-pianist Hélène de Montgeroult, and will use its huge social reach to carry inspiring quotes and ‘did you know’ assets.

There will also be a special edition of Calm Classics with Myleene Klass at 10pm featuring female composers and musicians.

On Smooth Radio, there will be a celebration of fantastic female talent – both musical artists and regular on-air presenters. Jenni Falconer, Kate Garraway and Angie Greaves will talk about International Women’s Day in links and are doing the ‘pass the phone’ challenge where they each say something they admire about the other before they pass the phone on to the next. Guests including Debbie Sledge will be talking about what it’s like to be a woman in the music industry on Smooth’s popular social feeds. We will also have iconic images and quotes from our Smooth female artists. Smooth’s team have a specially curated Leading Ladies playlist on Global Player. Smooth is also creating video content around what Smooth’s women would tell their younger self, in a collaboration with a Global’s Make Some Noise Charity.

All week on Radio X’s Evening Show has focussed on Women in Indie/Rock with features highlighting some of the biggest names in music.

On Radio X breakfast on International Women’s Day, Toby Tarrant will have the Platinum Hour dedicated entirely to Women Who Rock.

At 1pm presenter Issy Panayis is doing a special Best Of British: Women Who Rock at 1pm with an hour of female artists, while later at 8pm on the Radio X Indie Night there will be “The Radio X Indie Night salutes Women Who Rock” with a half hour mix of the biggest all female party tunes. That night, John Kennedy will be joined on XPosure by Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth and speaking to someone from Loud Women, a day festival in High Wycombe with a full female line-up. Radio X Classic Rock has a special Top 10 which will count down 10 of the biggest women in Classic Rock with presenter Sunta Templeton.

For Globallers, the Women@Global employee network have an In Conversation event with The Sports Agents host Gabby Logan, sessions with coaches on mindfulness and overcoming limiting behaviours, networking sessions and a special session on International Women’s Day on Being Brave and Taking a Risk hosted by Capital XTRA’s Kamilla Rose with panellists including Heart presenter and podcast host Anna Whitehouse.

Events are also taking place at broadcast centres including Kirsty Mack, the sixth Scottish woman to climb Mount Everest and Elaine Hopley, who holds the record for fastest woman to row solo across the Atlantic, taking part in an internal Q&A panel event in the Glasgow Broadcast Centre, hosted by Scotland’s Head of News, Corrie Martin.

The Women@Global team have also created a podcast for Globallers, Glow with the Flow: Women’s Health Unfiltered with daily episodes telling the stories, experiences and unfiltered conversations all around women’s health. Topics included Aimee Vivian, Annie Tricks and Cynthia Umurerwa talking about periods and hormones, hosted by Andrea Alexandrou and Fay Toulios.

Across the week Global’s TikTok account has run lives with presenters, producers and those behind-the-scenes at Global to give advice and tips about careers.

Global staff have also curated their own playlist for Global Player called She Inspires, after this year’s International’s Womens’s Day theme, Inspire Inclusion. This will be released on Global Player for all to enjoy on Friday 8th March.