Sought For Wrong

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30214, 20 August 1963, Page 2

Sought For Wrong

Mrs Strutt, who worked for a year as a television announcer with the 8.8. C. in London, described her feelings on first coming face to face with herself, when she watched a recorded programme she had made. “Maddening” “I decided I was the most maddening woman I had ever seen,” she said. “I seemed to have so many annoying mannerisms that I was really embarrassed. But my husband and the children seemed to enjoy it.” Her television career was prompted when her father-in-law gave her a set. “Sitting watching it for a while, I soon decided I could do as well myself,” she said. So she made a tape recording and sent it to the 8.8. C. She was given an audition and then offered the chance to tell a Christmas story. Later she got an announcing job when she applied for it. Her favourite work was on

a religious programme for children, called “Craftsmen and Artists.” It entailed interviewing a wide variety of craftsmen whose skills were in some way connected with the Church. Though no longer regularly working in television, she still occasionally takes part in this series. “Since my dream house — a very big, old brick place in the country in Essex—came on the market and we bought it, a lot of my time is taken up now, running it,” she said.