Jean Metcalfe (2 March 1923 - 28 January 2000) was an English radio broadcaster. Events 986 - Louis V becomes King of the Franks. 1127 - Assassination of Charles the Good Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1077 - Walk to Canossa: The Excommunication of Henry IV Holy Roman Emperor is lifted 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. Broadcaster may refer to A Broadcasting organization one responsible for the production of radio and television programs and/or their transmission
She was born on in Reigate, Surrey, the eldest child of Guy Vivian Metcalfe, a railway clerk with Southern Railway at Waterloo station, and Gwendoline Annie, née Reed. Reigate is a historic market town in Surrey, England at the foot of the North Downs, and in the London commuter belt. Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. "Railroad" and "Railway" both redirect here For other uses see Railroad (disambiguation. The Southern Railway (SR was a British railway company established in the 1923 Grouping. Hers was a typical lower middle-class family of the time, without a bathroom, and they used her father's Southern Railway privilege tickets to get them to their most ambitious holiday destination, Cornwall. Cornwall ( Kernow ˈkɛɹnɔʊ is the most southwesterly county of England, on the Peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar
She excelled at elocution and art at the local county school, and formed a passionate love of the radio at home. Elocution is the study of formal speaking in Pronunciation, Grammar, style and tone. Art refers to a diverse range of Human activities creations and expressions that are appealing to the Senses or Emotions of a human individual She joined the Children's Hour radio circle, and entered for competitions which entitled the winners to visit Broadcasting House, headquarters of the BBC. See also The Children's Hour (disambiguations Children's Hour &mdashat first " The Children's Hour" from a verse by Longfellow Broadcasting House is the headquarters and Registered office of the BBC in Portland Place, London, England. She also excelled at school dramatics, and once played Queen Victoria. Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901 was from 20 June 1837 the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
After leaving school in 1939, she went to secretarial college and then applied for a job at the BBC in 1940. By bending the truth on her CV, inventing grandparents in Norfolk and describing her father's occupation as "welfare officer", she succeeded in getting a job with the variety department, being paid £2 5s. Norfolk (ˈnɔrfək is a low-lying county in East Anglia, England, United Kingdom. 6d. a week. Her first broadcast was on 21 May 1941, reading the poem Spring, The Sweet Spring by Thomas Ashe for the Empire Service programme Books And People. Events 878 - Syracuse Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily. Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. For the British poet Thomas Ashe see Thomas Ashe (poet. For the U
She was auditioned as an announcer for the new BBC General Forces Programme, a joint BBC–War Office venture which was the BBC's first worldwide service and the first to use women announcers. An announcer is a Voice actor who works in Television, Radio or Film, usually providing Narrations News updates Station The War Office was a former department of the British Government, responsible for the administration of the British Army between the 17th century and 1963 when She joined the Africe Service, and began her period of service with the programme that made her famous: Forces Favourites, a request programme in which members of the armed forces abroad, and their families at home, could ask the "compère", as presenters were called, to play their favourite music. She began the job after five hours of studying the programme under its editor, Margaret Hubble. Margaret Elinor Hubble ( 29 December 1914 - 30 August 2006) was a British radio broadcaster It was while doing the programme from London that she met her male colleague at the Hamburg end of the operation, Squadron Leader Arthur Clifford (Cliff) Michelmore. Hamburg (English, German: ˈhambʊɐk local pronunciation Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg) is the second-largest city in Germany Squadron Leader is a commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence Arthur Clifford (Cliff Michelmore CBE (born 11 December 1919 in Cowes, Isle of Wight) is a British Television presenter and They married on 4 March 1950 (after the programme had been converted to the peacetime Two-Way Family Favourites) and went on to have two children; actress Jenny Michelmore and the broadcaster and composer Guy Michelmore. Events 51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title Princeps iuventutis (head of the youth Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Successor to the wartime show Forces Favourites, Family Favourites (also known as Two-Way Family Favourites) was broadcast at Sunday lunchtimes Guy Michelmore is a British composer and television news presenter
In August 1950, Metcalfe started to present Woman's Hour on BBC radio, a programme which at that time had a long list of forbidden topics. Self-effacing and gently spoken, she pioneered the art of interviewing stars in their own homes, including the wartime "forces sweetheart" singer Vera Lynn, the irascible television personality Gilbert Harding, the song and dance man Frankie Vaughan, and the stiff-upper-lipped film actor Kenneth More. Forces' Sweetheart was also a 1953 film. Forces Sweetheart (or Forces' Sweetheart) is a title given to some entertainment women mainly Dame Vera Lynn DBE (born 20 March 1917) is a popular British Vocalist whose career flourished during World War II, Gilbert Charles Harding ( 5 June 1907, Hereford &mdash 16 November 1960, London) was a British journalist Frankie Vaughan, CBE ( 3 February 1928 - 17 September 1999) was a Singer of Traditional pop music in the Kenneth Gilbert More CBE ( 20 September 1914 – 12 July 1982) was an English Actor. The Daily Mail made her broadcasting personality of the year in 1955, and she won a Variety Club of Great Britain radio personality award in 1963. The Daily Mail is a British newspaper currently published in a tabloid format Variety the Children's Charity was founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 10, 1927 when a group of eleven men involved in Show
She gave up broadcasting in 1964 to raise her family and did not return full-time until 1971, when she presented If You Think You've Got Problems, a programme in which a broad range of human problems were discussed, many of which would not have been allowed when she began her association with Woman's Hour. The programme continued until 1979, although BBC objected to one of her programmes, on lesbianism, because it would be going out on a Sunday. A lesbian is a Woman who is romantically or sexually attracted only to other women
On television, she made her début with Robert Beatty in Saturday Night Out and did guest spots for Juke Box Jury and Wednesday Magazine. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic Robert Beatty ( 19 October, 1909 – 3 March 1992) was a Canadian actor who worked in Film, Television and Radio Juke Box Jury was a pop themed panel show originally produced by BBC television from 1959 - 1967, the first edition having been broadcast on 1 In 1986 she published a joint autobiography with her husband, Two-Way Story. An autobiography, from the Greek αὐτός autos "self" βίος bios "life" and γράφειν graphein "to write" She died at Petersfield, Hampshire, survived by her husband and their two children. Petersfield is a Market town and Civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England.
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