Peggy Bacon (radio producer)

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Peggy Bacon
BornMargaret Bacon  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
1910s  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Birmingham   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Died1 March 1976  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
London   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Alma mater
Occupation Radio producer, radio personality, television producer, nurse   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Employer

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

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Early life and education

Bacon was born in Birmingham, England, and educated at the city's King Edward VI High School for Girls from 1931 to 1936. [2] [3]

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. [4] She also edited a B.B.C. Children's Hour Annual book, for the BBC. [5] [6]

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. [7] [8]

She commissioned Brian Vaughton to make the documentary The Cats Whiskers: celebrating forty years of broadcasting from the heart of England, broadcast on the Home Service (Midland) on 12 November 1962. [9] [10] In 1965, after she made a successful series of programmes for 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). [11]

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]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "BBC's Aunty Peggy dies". Birmingham Post : 5. 4 March 1976. ISSN   0963-7915. Wikidata   Q110995254.
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