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Marjorie Wallace

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Marjorie Wallace

FromDesert Island Discs: Archive 2011-2015


UNLIMITED

Marjorie Wallace

FromDesert Island Discs: Archive 2011-2015

ratings:
Length:
36 minutes
Released:
Nov 1, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Kirsty Young's castaway is the mental health campaigner and Chief Executive of SANE, Marjorie Wallace.

After leaving University College London with a psychology and philosophy degree, her first job in the media was working on The Frost Programme with David Frost. She went on to produce religious programmes and became a current affairs reporter and director for the BBC. She joined the Sunday Times Insight team as an investigative journalist and wrote a series of articles highlighting the financial and emotional plight of young Thalidomide victims. Her articles on mental illness - The Forgotten Illness - elicited a huge public response and in 1986 she founded the mental health charity SANE. She has received numerous awards for her journalism and books and has twice won the Campaigning Journalist of the Year award.

In December 2008 she was awarded the CBE for services to mental health.

Producer: Sarah Taylor.
Released:
Nov 1, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Guests are invited to choose the eight records they would take to a desert island.