Marjorie Anderson

Anderson's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in the Radio Academy's Hall of Fame. She was appointed MBE in the 1974 Birthday Honours.

Between 1955 and 1968 Anderson presented Home for the Day on the BBC Home Service. She was a presenter of Woman's Hour from 1958 until her retirement in 1973. Anderson had multiple sclerosis which, as it progressed, affected her speech and thus her radio career, prompting her retirement.

Marjorie Anderson married advertising executive Anthony Sykes in 1947. They had a son, Jeremy, born in 1948. She was widowed when Sykes died in 1961. She died in 1999, aged 86 years, in Kensington.

From 1940 to 1945, during World War II, Anderson presented Thank You for your Letters and Forces Favourites on the BBC Forces Programme and BBC General Forces Programmes. She also presented the latter programme's peacetime successor, Family Favourites, on the BBC Light Programme. Her "disciplined, upbeat manner" was considered helpful to wartime and postwar morale.

Anderson began her career as an actress, appearing in T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral on the West End and in a 1938 touring company in the United States. She also taught voice classes, and worked with children who had speech defects.

Marjorie Anderson MBE (7 November 1913 – 14 December 1999) was a British actress and leading BBC radio broadcaster for over thirty years, including on the programme Woman's Hour from 1958 to 1972.