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- ↑ BBC website
- ↑ Paul Donovan, ‘Quigley, Janet Muriel Alexander (1902–1987)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 4 March 2017
- ↑ BBC Radio 4 schedule
