Julia Lang (actress)

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Lang in 1951

Julia Lang was a British film and radio actress and radio presenter. Born in London, she is best known for presenting the BBC radio programme Listen with Mother .

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She married William Shine in 1942. They appeared together in the 1948 film The Red Shoes as "a balletomane" and "a balletomane's mate". Their marriage was dissolved in 1949. She had a son, Stephen. [1] [2]

In an Anglia Television interview in the 1990s, Lang said that during her tenure of Listen with Mother, when she had finished reading the story, she had to get up (noiselessly), rush across to the piano in the studio and play the concluding music live.

Lang died on 1 April 2010 at the age of 88 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. [3]

On-screen appearances

Film

Television

References

  1. "Obituary of Bill Shine". The Independent. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
  2. "FreeBMD – Search". Freebmd.org.uk.
  3. "Death". Westmorland Gazette . Retrieved 24 October 2018.