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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...

JA 's first job was as a librarian at the UN Information Centre. After that she became features editor on the US pulp fiction magazine Argosy (not to be confused with the British periodical The...

BB was, she said, a tap-dancing member of Miss Thelma Broadbent 's Ensemble in Southport as a small child. At twelve she was recruited by the BBC to work as a young broadcaster on Children's...

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...

At the BBC and Open UniversityFH established herself as one of the most accomplished readers of contemporary poetry. As Frances Hooker , she read for the BBC's Third Programme (which, with a few shifts...

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...

In 1943 EJH got a steadier job than she had yet had, as continuity announcer with the BBC . In this job she read news bulletins, announced concerts, selected and played records. Later, while visiting...

In her capacity as a broadcaster, EH was a member of the BBC Advisory Council .

RM had a long-running career as a journalist: until part-way through the Second World War she combined a large output of novels with working as a critic and reviewer. She worked for Time and Tide...

During her early, drifting years AL worked designing woven textiles, but realised in about ten minutes that designing was not for her. She worked as an assistant buyer for various shops, then worked in the...

After her stint as assistant press officer at the Empire Marketing Board in London (from 1929 to June 1932), EH moved on into broader journalism. During the second world war, in addition to quantities of...

In summer 1945, as the date of the general election approached, CM began working for the Labour Party : quite a good job in the research dept, but we are drowned in work. She...

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...

In Sussex GM (already a writer for magazines and BBC Radio ) worked as a maid in a hotel, then for the Dolphin Theatre in Brighton, first as a secretary and then as property...

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...