Peggy Makins

Last updated

Peggy Makins (1916-2011) was an English agony aunt, who wrote for Woman magazine under the pen name Evelyn Home.

She was born in Hammersmith, London, England, in 1916. [1]

She took over the column in Woman at the age of 21, having previously been its sub-editor, and continued to write it until retirement. [1]

She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 8 May 1988. [2] She also contributed regularly to Thought For The Day on the BBC Home Service.

She died on 8 December 2011. [1]

Bibliography

Related Research Articles

Dame Maureen Diane Lipman is an English theatre, film, radio and television actress, writer, comedian and political activist. She trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and her stage work has included appearances with the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. She was made a dame in the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to charity, entertainment and the arts.

Desert Island Discs is a radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It was first broadcast on the BBC Forces Programme on 29 January 1942.

Claire Rayner British writer

Claire Berenice Rayner, OBE was an English nurse, journalist, broadcaster and novelist, best known for her role for many years as an agony aunt.

Dame Heather Victoria Rabbatts, DBE is a Jamaican-born British solicitor, businesswoman, and broadcaster, who rose to prominence as Chief executive of the London Borough of Lambeth, the youngest council chief in the UK. She served as a Football Association director from 2011 to 2017 and was the first ethnic minority person to do so. She was also the only woman on its board.

Margaret Rhodes First cousin of Queen Elizabeth II

Margaret Rhodes was a British aristocrat and a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. From 1991 to 2002, she served as Woman of the Bedchamber to her aunt Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

Christina Noble, OBE, is an Irish children's rights campaigner, charity worker and writer, who founded the Christina Noble Children's Foundation in 1989.

Alec Robertson, MBE was a British writer, broadcaster and music critic. He wrote music criticism for Gramophone for more than 50 years, beginning with the magazine's very first issue in 1923. He later served as that magazine's music editor from 1952–1972.

Sir Harry Whitlohn was a spoof character who appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs and was interviewed as though he were real, by the presenter Roy Plomley, on 1 April 1963 - April Fools' Day.

Peter Cecil Wilson was an English auctioneer and chairman of Sotheby's.

Cicely Joan Whittington CBE was an English Red Cross aid worker.

Mollie Lee was a BBC Radio presenter, known for her appearances on Woman's Hour, and novelist, under the name Mollie Hales.

Rosina Harrison was a lady-in-waiting, chiefly to Lady Astor, and became known after describing their working relationship in her autobiography.

Catherine Gavin

Catherine Irvine Gavin was a Scottish academic historian, war correspondent, and historical novelist.

Frances Eileen Edmonds is a British writer. She is known for her books Another Bloody Tour: England in the West Indies (1986) and Cricket XXXX Cricket (1987) about touring with her husband, the former England cricketer Phil Edmonds.

John Hegarty (advertising executive) British advertising executive and founder of Bartle Bogle Hegarty (born 1944)

Sir John Hegarty is an advertising executive and a founder of the agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.

Henrietta Russell, Dowager Duchess of Bedford is a landowner and horse breeder, and the widow of Robin Russell, 14th Duke of Bedford, with whom she lived, at Woburn Abbey. Until her husband succeeded to the Dukedom in 2002, she was better known as the Marchioness of Tavistock.

Anton Edelmann is a chef, cookery writer, who was maître chef des cuisines at the Savoy Hotel in London, England, from 1982 to 2003.

Gwen Adshead

Gwen Adshead is a forensic psychotherapist, Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at Gresham College, Jochelson visiting professor at the Yale School of Law and Psychiatry, and consultant forensic psychiatrist at Ravenswood House.

Thea Holme (1904–1980) was an actor and writer.

Blanche Marvin, , is a UK-based, American theatre critic, producer, playwright and former actor.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Magazine agony aunt with independent streak". Henley Standard. 28 August 2012. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  2. "Desert Island Discs - Castaway : Peggy Makins". BBC Online . BBC. Retrieved 18 August 2014.