1. We would like to thank Jeannine Baker, Kate Murphy, and all the participants in the “Cross-Currents: Gender and Transnational Broadcasting” workshop for their feedback on the first version of this argument, as well as all of the members of the WREN network for the constant inspiration.
2. Van der Goot to Strecker, January 5, 1957, box 18, folder “Radio Women 1954–1964,” Archief Wilhelmina Posthumus-van der Goot, Internationaal Archief voor de Vrouwenbeweging, Atria, kennisinstituut voor emancipatie en vrouwengeschiedenis, Amsterdam (hereafter Archief PvdG).
3. On the history of the IAV see Francesca de Haan and Annette Mevis, “The IAV/IIAM's Archival Policy and Practice: Seventy Years of Collecting, Receiving, and Refusing Women's Archives (1935–2005),” in Traveling Heritages: New Perspectives on Collecting, Preserving and Sharing Women's History, ed. Saskia Wieringa (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008), 23–46. A biography of Lilian Posthumus-van der Goot is currently being written by Antia Wiersma of the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. To date, there is no scholarly biography of Strecker, but see her own memoir, Überleben ist nicht genug: Frauen 1945–1950 (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany: Herder, 1981).
4. On the IAWRT's history see Christine Ruhnbro, Voices/Pictures: The Story of International Association of Women in Radio and Television (Stockholm: IAWRT, 2008); Kristin Skoog and Alexander Badenoch, “Networking Women: The International Association of Women in Radio and Television,” in Broadcasting in the UK and US in the 1950s: Historical Perspectives, ed. Jamie Medhurst, Sian Nicolas, and Tom O'Malley (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016), 189–218. Although the “T” for Television was added in 1957, throughout the article we will refer to the organization as IAWRT. On van der Goot's national radio work see Marjolein Zaal, “Van Vrouw Tot Vrouw: De Vrouwenrubrieken van de AVRO Onder Leiding van Dr. W. H. Posthumus-van Der Goot, 1936–1952” (PhD diss., Leiden University, 1992). On Strecker and other German women's programs see Alexander Badenoch, “Time Consuming: Women's Radio and the Reconstruction of National Narratives in Western Germany 1945–1948,” German History 25, no. 1 (2007): 46–71.
5. For a full discussion of how the IAWRT negotiated Cold War divides see Alexander Badenoch and Kristin Skoog, “Your Woman Friend in the West: Women Broadcasters and the Cold War,” Women's History Review (2019): https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2019.1600649.