Editing Jean Metcalfe (section)

==''Forces Favourites''==
Metcalfe was auditioned as an [[announcer]] for the new [[BBC General Forces Programme]], a joint BBC–[[War Office]] venture which was the BBC's first worldwide service and the first to use female announcers. She joined the BBC Africa Service, and began her long period with the programme that made her a household name: ''Forces Favourites'', later renamed ''[[Family Favourites]]''. This was a request programme in which members of the armed forces abroad, and their families at home, could ask the "compère" to play a favourite piece of music. She began the job after five hours of study with the programme's editor [[Margaret Hubble]]. She last presented the programme as a Christmas special on Radio 2 in 1985.