Margaret Hubble
Margaret Elinor Hubble (29 December 1914 – 30 August 2006) was a British radio broadcaster. She was best known as a presenter of Woman's Hour in the 1950s.
Hubble was born in Kent, the youngest of five children of a farmer. She attended a boarding school in Sussex, and joined the commercial radio department at advertising agency
She was the first woman announcer to broadcast on the
She married Albert Cuthbert in June 1945, and, like most married women, resigned her full-time job to become a full-time wife. She rejoined the BBC in 1948 after her husband's early death.
Hubble appeared on
She married Philip Horne in 1950, and resigned from the BBC again in 1952. She continued to work as on a
Hubble narrated Children's Newsreel from 1959, alongside Douglas Henderson, and presented Call from Home for the British Forces Broadcasting Service from 1969.
References
- Obituary, The Times, 9 September 2006
- Obituary[dead link], The Daily Telegraph, 22 September 2006