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Barbara Mandell | National Gallery entrance fees | Quakers and the truth | Butterflies in the 60s | Tom LehrerThe claim that “no woman was trusted to read the news in the UK until Angela Rippon in 1975” (Freedom of speech, G2, 9 April) is inaccurate. Barbara Mandell read the midday news on ITV in 1955. However, the underlying point of the article – the notion that the female voice lacks authority reflects an embedded prejudice against women – is surely correct. It is born