Originally Posted by Jason C:
“Slightly apropos of nothing but I was watching one of the Crucible Classics on the iPlayer last night and was rather surprised when I heard a female voice commentating on the match.
A bit of research revealed that the lady in question was Vera Selby, who was the first women's world champion and was part of the BBC's World Championship commentary team in 1982 alongside the likes of Ted Lowe, Clive Everton and Jack Karnehm.
I was just struck by how remarkably progressive that seemed for 1982 - and how there are no former women's snooker players used as commentators in these current days of heightened equality.”
“Slightly apropos of nothing but I was watching one of the Crucible Classics on the iPlayer last night and was rather surprised when I heard a female voice commentating on the match.
A bit of research revealed that the lady in question was Vera Selby, who was the first women's world champion and was part of the BBC's World Championship commentary team in 1982 alongside the likes of Ted Lowe, Clive Everton and Jack Karnehm.
I was just struck by how remarkably progressive that seemed for 1982 - and how there are no former women's snooker players used as commentators in these current days of heightened equality.”
I find it a bit annoying that on Crucible Classics there are no captions coming up with the commentators names, I recognise some of the voices but not all of them.
I agree it was very surprising to hear a women's voice being used in the eighties!



