Grace Wyndham Goldie (née Grace Murrell Nisbet) (26 March 1900 – 3 June 1986) was an important innovatory producer in British television for twenty years, particularly in the fields of politics and current affairs. During her career at the BBC, she held her own as one of the few senior women in an establishment dominated by men. As a producer, she pioneered many of the television formats now taken for granted in Britain. Wyndham Goldie rose to be...
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Grace Wyndham Goldie (née Grace Murrell Nisbet) (26 March 1900 – 3 June 1986) was an important innovatory producer in British television for twenty years, particularly in the fields of politics and current affairs. During her career at the BBC, she held her own as one of the few senior women in an establishment dominated by men. As a producer, she pioneered many of the television formats now taken for granted in Britain. Wyndham Goldie rose to become Head of Talks, and later Head of the Current Affairs Group at BBC Television.
Grace was born in Arisaig, a small village in the western Scottish Highlands. Much of her childhood was spent in Egypt, where her father worked as a civil engineer, and she attended a French Catholic convent school in Alexandria before going on to Cheltenham Ladies' College. She obtained her first degree at Bristol University, and then attended Somerville College, Oxford. In 1928, she married Frank Goldie, an actor who used the stage name Wyndham Goldie, which...
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