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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use New Zealand English Шаблон:Infobox person Helen Agnes Young Шаблон:Post-nominals (22 March 1926 – 2 August 2019) was a New Zealand radio manager and an advocate for New Zealand music performers and composers.[1]

Born in Hāwera on 22 March 1926, Young was the daughter of Agnes Isabel Young (née Bartholomew) and Andrew Morton Young.[2][3] She was educated at St Cuthbert's College, Auckland,[4] and later went to London, where she studied at the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.[3] After working at the music library of the British Arts Council and the British Institute of Recorded Sound, she returned to New Zealand.[3] She was manager of RNZ Concert for 12 years between 1978 and 1989, and worked for Radio New Zealand for 35 years in all.[1][4]

In the 1987 Queen's Birthday Honours, Young was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to broadcasting,[5] and she received the award for "Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting" at the 1990 New Zealand Radio Awards.[1]

Young died in Auckland on 2 August 2019.[1][2]

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