Daisy Basham
New Zealand singer, radio broadcaster and personality, writer
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Máiréad Ní Ghráda
Irish playwright, author and broadcaster
Anne Bushnell
Irish blues and jazz singer
Gertrude Berg
American actress, screenwriter, and producer best known for her pioneering work in early television.
Aloha Wanderwell
Canadian explorer, author, filmmaker, travel lecturer, editor, screenwriter, and radio performer. She was also fluent in 11 languages.
Dora de Acuña
Dora Gómez Bueno de Acuña was a multifaceted personality—a poet, educator, journalist, and radio actress. She acquired her education at the Escuela Normal de Asunción, graduating as a teacher.
Nkenge Touré
Nkenge Touré is an activist whose expansive collection of speeches and written works confront issues around reproductive justice, Black feminism, and women’s rights.
Sydney Czira
Irish journalist, broadcaster, and republican
Marguerite Patten
During the war in that role, via practical demonstrations, pamphlets and a BBC radio broadcast called Kitchen Front, she advised Britain on how to eat well and stay healthy using the rationed, limited and sometimes unpalatable foodstuffs available.
Elsie Waters
As ‘Gert and Daisy’, the Waters sisters became stalwarts of seaside variety shows, music halls, Royal Variety performances, and the occasional film, although radio was where they found a natural home and made their best work.