Peggy Bacon (radio producer)

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Peggy Bacon
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Margaret Bacon (19 November 1918 – 1 March 1976), who worked under the name Peggy Bacon, was a BBC radio and television producer and radio presenter.[1][2]

Early life and education

Bacon was born on 19 November 1918 in Kings Heath, Birmingham, England, to Arthur Charles Bacon and Doris Elizabeth, née Day.[3] She was educated at the city's King Edward VI High School for Girls from 1931 to 1936.[2][4]

Career

She joined the BBC in Birmingham as a secretary in 1938 before working as a Red Cross nurse, treating wounded servicemen at an emergency hospital in Birmingham for several months in 1940, during World War II.[2]

She produced and presented - as "Aunty Peggy" - the BBC Home Service radio programme Children's Hour for almost 20 years,[2] with the Radio Times first listing her appearance on 17 September 1947.[5] She also edited a B.B.C. Children's Hour Annual book, for the BBC.[6][7]

After meeting two railway-enthusiast film makers, she commissioned them to work on Railway Roundabout, a television series, episodes of which she also produced, and which ran from 1958 to 1962.[8][9]

She commissioned

O-level students, she was transferred to the BBC's education department, in London.[2] While there, she edited F. D. Flower's Reading to Learn: An Approach to Critical Reading (BBC, 1969).[12]

Personal life and death

In her leisure time, she was a singer and linguist, and translated song lyrics from French and German, some of which were broadcast.[2]

She retired in 1975 and died in London on 1 March 1976, aged 57.[1][2]

References

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  3. OCLC 863516663. Retrieved 21 November 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive
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  4. ^ Hutton, Thomas Winter (1952). King Edward's School, Birmingham, 1552-1952. Blackwell. p. 185.
  5. ^ "Children's Hour". Radio Times. No. 1248. 14 September 1947. p. 14. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  6. ^ "Personalia". The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record. 165: 1324. 1951.
  7. ^ "B.B.C. Children's Hour Annual (image of cover)". 23 February 2022. Archived from the original on 23 February 2022. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  8. ^ Hewitt, Sam (19 December 2019). "From the Archive: P B Whitehouse". The Railway Magazine. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  9. ^ "Railway Roundabout". Radio Times. No. 1896. 11 March 1960. p. 16. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  10. ^ Vaughton, Brian. "Birmingham Ballads". Charles Parker Archive Trust. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  11. ^ "The Cats Whiskers". Radio Times. No. 2035. 10 November 1962. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  12. OCLC 579516566
    . Retrieved 23 February 2022.
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