 Welcome to the ITU studio in Shamashake in Egypt, where we're here for the Radio Communication Assembly and the World Radio Communication Conference following that. And I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio today by Cath Westcott, who is the Senior Distribution Manager for the BBC World Service Group. Cath, welcome to the studio. Thank you very much. Now I'd like to start off by talking to you a little bit about this conference and the one just straight afterwards. Why is BBC World Service attending this conference? What makes it important in your calendar? Well, BBC is a long-standing sector member of the radio communications sector of the ITU. We're both a national and an international broadcaster. I work in the international part of the BBC. So for us, it's a really important place. The ITU is a very important organisation. We work internationally. So, as well as being at the right place where important decisions are made that will influence how we can distribute our programme around the world. It's also an important place for us to meet people, to meet people from different countries, different regions. And specifically, the radio communications assembly, it's important, I think, because it frames the way that the radio communications sector works. And it means that it can operate effectively for all the membership. So that's member states, but also crucially sector members like us as BBC. And in terms of the conversations that are going to be had here, the decisions that are going to be made, what are the most important to you? What are the most vital, do you think, that will affect broadcasting? Well, aside from the workings of the ITU, which I think is important for all member states, all sector members. We have, there are two proposed new resolutions, one of which has just been approved, one which is at Plenary. And those are important to us. They came proposed by Study Group 6, which is the study group for the broadcasting service. So they were agreed by all of the broadcasters that attend, and there are two. One is about the role of the ITU in the ongoing development of broadcasting, so that's sound, television and multimedia. And the second is the ongoing development, in fact. It's about future broadcasting. It's about the ITU, the work in Study Group 6 actually meeting the requirements of all broadcasters and recognising the changes that are happening in broadcasting. And the work that's being done in these study groups, what relevance does it have in terms of the reports, the studies and the resolutions? So in the study groups, the work in the study groups, I'd say it's crucial for organisations like the BBC. You have the recommendations and you have the reports, so that's really important information both for us as a broadcaster. Some of the work that happens in the ITU is very important externally. There are very important relationships between us, the standardisation that's worked on in the ITU and other external standards bodies, and that collaboration and liaison is really important. And also I think for us it's the exchange of information. I've spent a lot of time, or BBC's spent a lot of time certainly at WRC's and also in the study groups, talking to other broadcasters who work in very different environments than we do, but we have a lot that we can share and support each other and I think that's good for us as broadcasters, it's good for the citizens, it's good for the administrations. One of the things I wanted to ask you as well is there's a group here encouraging women to get involved in radio communications in technology, and that's certainly a subject very close to the heart of ITU. I just really wanted to find out a little bit about your background, what encouraged you and what infused you into getting involved and following this career path. Well this is a subject close to my heart, not just within the ITU and I've been involved in the initiatives which I think are very important, but also in the BBC, I'm a member of a network within the BBC of women that work in STEM areas. Personally, in fact I didn't start off in engineering, I actually did an English degree at university, but I joined the BBC and was trained to become a radio engineer and through my work as a shortwave radio planner, I became involved in the WRC a long time ago. So my route has been slightly unusual, but I've found the work incredibly interesting, I've done the job for a long time, it's changed, I'm still learning and I've found now that my experience of having done the work that I've done for the time that I've done it as a woman, I have lots of observations and experiences to share with other women and with other men. So that excites me in fact and the ITU initiatives are I think really important and really welcome. Finally, with regards to the outcomes in this conference, what do you hope will be the outcomes at the end of this very long haul that most of us are going to be involved with? So you're talking about WRC as well as the radio assembly? Indeed. The outcomes, well for the BBC our interest actually ironically perhaps is in the agenda for the next conference in 2023. So for us the outcome would be an agenda which we feel we can do effective studies on for the four years, that's clear, that's sensible and worth looking at so that we can actually do useful work in the four years and come to a good resolution that suits everyone in 2023. Otherwise, I mean there are a number of other issues that we're looking at but yeah it is a long haul. I feel I'm fortunate not to be here for the whole time but I know many of my colleagues in many different countries will be here and I wish them good luck and energy. Well thank you very much for joining us in the studio and hopefully we'll catch up with you again at some stage in the near future. Cathy Westcott, thanks very much indeed. Thank you very much. Thank you.