Author: BBC

Ms Marson was already an experienced writer and journalist by the time she joined the BBC in 1939.Her first role in the corporation was working at the Alexandra Palace television studios. When war broke out and the BBC’s TV services were shutdown, she transferred to radio to work both behind the scenes and on air.Ms Marson later joined full-time as a programme assistant in the “Empire Programmes” department, where her interest in poetry led her to elevate authors from the Caribbean. She also broadcasted messages from servicemen and women in England to their friends and families in the Caribbean, in…

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