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Hosain remained in London, and eventually took up a job with the BBC . During her time as a broadcaster, she presented her own women's programme for the BBC's Eastern Service, worked variously for the...

Austen Kark came to hold a high position in the BBC 's overseas service. The couple's daughter, Perdita, was born in 1957. By 2004 NB had grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Her husband, Austen Kark, was killed...

In her memoirs JK mentions her partner Denise Else , who is on good terms with Duffy and her daughter. Else works as a sound technician with the BBC .

At sixteen he left Australia (shortly after his mother returned to England) for Brussels, where he worked in business until, in 1935, he moved to England himself. He studied art, served in the army during...

LP is married to Christopher Hawes , a fellow author and former drama teacher, who like her often works for the BBC .

After the Second World War, BR became a broadcaster on Welsh radio; later on she branched out into BBC television.

UM found herself in London when World War Two began. She volunteered as an air raid shelter marshal, on the grounds that this would still leave time for her writing. She also attempted to impress...

The programme, modelled after Voice, featured readings from the work of West Indian writers. Because few Caribbean writers were living in London during the war, their work was read primarily from Jamaican literary journals...

He found himself teaching in primitive and personally dangerous conditions in distant universities, at least one a temporary, ad hoc organization—not only short of food but also teaching without books. He was the only European...

PG worked as a writer and researcher for the BBC for some years from 1950. She worked on and off while bringing up her children. She contributed to her husband's mannequin business...

From 1956 to 1960, LS taught Chinese literature at Nanyang University , and lived in both Singapore and London. She wrote and travelled, taking trips to Japan and Hong Kong. She spent...

VSW was a lecturer and broadcaster for the BBC as well as a hard-working and prolific journalist. She has a place in any list of influential English gardeners, developing further some of the...

She became a broadcaster with the BBC in 1948, and continued in this role for forty years. She became a professional writer, and contributed work to newspapers in addition to publishing books.

An ex-pacifist when the second world war broke out, DA recoiled from joining the forces or undertaking other war work, but eventually got an office job (the merest fetching and carrying) with the BBC at...

NJ went to work, displaying the energy of five women, as a Second World War lecturer with the Ministry of Information , awelfare supervisor with ENSA, the Entertainments National Service Association , and a...