Collapsed and died of a stroke in the arms of Alison Dowling who plays her
daughter-in-law Elizabeth Pargetter in the BBC radio series The
Archers, immediately after recording of an episode at the BBC studios
in Birmingham.
Started her BBC radio acting career in 1945
She is the voice of "Julia Pargetter" in the long running BBC radio
series, "The Archers".
Although she was, for decades, one of the most familiar voices on British radio, she made no television appearances until the late 1950s and was only ever in three films, all of which were released within a space of two years.