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Isa Benzie was born on 4 December, 1902 in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, is a British radio broadcaster. Discover Isa Benzie's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 4 December 1902
Birthday 4 December
Birthplace Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Date of death 25 June, 1988
Died Place Hastings, England, United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom

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1902

Isa Donald Benzie (4 December 1902 – 25 June 1988) was a British radio broadcaster.

She played a key role in the launch of Today on BBC Radio 4, and served as its first senior producer.

Benzie was born in 1902 in Glasgow.

She took the equivalent of a degree in German at Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford.

She was not given a degree because she was a woman.

1927

Benzie became a secretary at the BBC in 1927, just two years after it first had de facto national coverage in Britain.

During the World War I, her father, Lt. Colonel Robert Marr Benzie, served in the same army division as John Reith who would become the managing director of the BBC, and had written to Reith asking for a position for his daughter.

Isa Benzie was paid £150 per year as assistant to the head of the Foreign Liaison department, Major CF Atkinson.

Benzie gathered material for talks given by Vernon Bartlett on his programme The Way of the World.

1932

In 1932, Atkinson resigned and Benzie was given his role.

Her salary increased to £500 a year but this was much less that her former boss had been paid.

Benzie's career continued and her salary was increased by £100 every year with a ceiling set at £1,250 per year.

1933

By 1933, Benzie was head of the foreign affairs department.

1936

She oversaw relationships with broadcasters worldwide, including for significant events such as the 1936 Summer Olympics and for the Coronation of George VI and Elizabeth.

1937

In 1937 she married a BBC producer, Royston Morley.

They had one child, a daughter.

She had to leave the BBC because of a rule against women being married to another of their employees.

Another source says that she opted to leave and her resignation meal was attended by Lord Reith.

The marital rule was relaxed during the war and Benzie returned to the BBC into the Radio Talks department, where she often organised talks on aspects of health.

1940

In the 1940s, Benzie produced Donald Winnicott's series "The Ordinary Devoted Mother and Her Baby".

Benzie and Janet Quigley "worked with Winnicott to improve his broadcasting style" and shaped the content of the programmes.

1957

Benzie played a key role in October 1957 in the launch of Today on BBC Radio 4, which she named.

She edited the programme and was its first senior producer.

She took it from a programme for "people on the move" to the important step of having its own named presenter.

Quigley and Benzie worked together on the programme and complemented each other's careers.

They worked in the same BBC departments, had the same alma mater and witnessed each other's marriages.

1964

Benzie retired in 1964 and died in St Leonards in 1988.

The first and only portrait of a woman in Broadcasting House is a painting of Isa Benzie painted by Ronald Dunlop.

The portrait was included in a digital project "100 Objects that made the BBC".