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Change of Heart

Episode 2 of 3

The life of pioneer reporter Mea Allan and mentor May Chalmers in wartime letters. Felicity Goodall's play with Siobhan Redmond. From June 1999.

Mea Allan (1909-1982) was the first woman war correspondent to be permanently accredited to the British Forces and the first woman news editor in Fleet Street. During the Second World War she kept up a remarkable correspondence with her mentor May Chalmers which gives a picture of daily life in the Blitz and on the home front in London and Scotland.

Felicity Goodall's play opens with Mea looking back over her life and friendship with May, beginning with her arrival in Fleet Street in December 1938.

Stars Siobhan Redmond as Mea Allan, Brigit Forsyth as May Chalmers and Steven Deproost as Archie.

Second of a trilogy of plays examining the lives and writing of three pioneering women journalists.

Director: Felicity Goodall

Produced at Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Manchester by Sue Roberts.

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in 1999.

45 minutes

Last on

Tue 23 Jan 2018 21:15

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