Editing Jean Metcalfe (section)

==''Woman's Hour''==
From August 1950, Metcalfe presented ''[[Woman's Hour]]'' on the [[BBC Light Programme]]. At the time, the programme had a long list of forbidden topics. Self-effacing and gently spoken, she pioneered the art of interviewing stars in their own homes, including the wartime '[[forces sweetheart]]' singer [[Vera Lynn]], the irascible television personality [[Gilbert Harding]], the song and dance man [[Frankie Vaughan]] and the stiff-upper-lipped film actor [[Kenneth More]]. The ''[[Daily Mail]]'' made her broadcasting personality of the year in 1955, and she won a [[Variety Club of Great Britain]] radio personality award in 1963. From the late 1950s to mid-1960s, she narrated various fairy tales and children's stories on 7" and LP, and in 1964 was featured alongside [[Michael Aspel]] on the ''Voice Improvement Programme'' LP published by [[Polydor]].