Английская Википедия:Audrey Russell
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox person Muriel Audrey Russell, Шаблон:Post-nominal (29 June 1906 – 8 August 1989) was a BBC Radio journalist (then called a "commentator"), the BBC's first female news reporter, and, in 1944, the first accredited female war reporter.[1][2]
Russell was born in Dublin on 29 June 1906, to Muriel (née Metcalfe) and John Strangman Russell. Her father was director of his family's woollen mill.[2] She was their only child.[2] Her maternal uncle was E. Dudley "Fruity" Metcalfe, a close friend of Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII).[2]
She was home-educated governesses, before attending a private boarding-school called Southlands, at Harrow. She then went to a finishing school at the Villa St Georges, Neuilly, Paris.[2]
After training at the Central School of Speech and Drama,[2] she became an actress (her stage debut was at the Lyric in London in 1937) and stage manager,[2] and joined the BBC in 1942[3] after being discovered by them when interviewed about her wartime work for the National Fire Service.[2]
She travelled to mainland Europe just after the D-Day landings and reported from Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, and Norway, before returning on health grounds in March 1945.[2]
In 1953, Russell gave a live commentary on the Coronation of Elizabeth II, from inside Westminster Abbey.[4] She also gave commentary on the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965.[3]
She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 29 July 1957.[5] In 1967, she was granted the freedom of the City of London, and was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) in the 1976 Birthday Honours.[2][6] Her autobiography, A Certain Voice, was published in 1984.[7] She died of Alzheimer's disease in Woking, Surrey, on 8 August 1989.[2] An obituary, calling here the "grande dame of radio's vintage years", was published in The Times.[7]
Her World War II military uniform (though non-combatants, war correspondents held military rank) is in the collection of the Imperial War Museum.[3]
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