Greg Jenner

There is a gender shift here as well.

And you've also got this notion of managerial roles.

There's a woman called Catherine Schmidt who introduces training methods to make sure that women have good diction in her area.

So there's really interesting things happening there.

There are social anxieties as well about Hello Girls working in these jobs.

People are concerned about their safety, but also their function or their performance.

Yes.

Yes, absolutely they will.

Yes.

There's also some fun stuff about them growing their hair or combing their hair over their ears or something.

Actually, there are plenty of concerns that were raised by this new technology arriving into people's homes and into towns and cities and buildings.

So, Catherine, I've got a mini quiz for you here.

These are seven things that Victorians feared might happen to society because of the telephone.

Six are true.

One I've made up.

Can you guess which one I've made up?

Let's go.

Did people fear that women might commit adultery from home with the new technology of the phone?

Men maybe would not stand up when phoning a woman.

Were people fearing that there might be phone calls happening between people wearing their pyjamas?