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Laurie Macmillan (
May 10,
1947 -
October 8,
2001) was a
BBC Radio 4 newsreader and continuity announcer born in
Aberdeen on the east coast of
Scotland.
Educated at
Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls,
Monmouthshire, South
Wales and then at
Newcastle University graduating with a degree in
Politics and
Philosophy.
She joined the
BBC in
1968 as a Trainee Studio Manager, became a studio manager in
1973 and an announcer in
1975. Easily recognisable in the BBC Newsroom by her thick dark hair that was so long she'd frequently end up sitting on it. Worked on
The World at One, PM, It's Your Line and
You and Yours on
BBC Radio 4, also occasionally working on
BBC Radio 3 and
BBC Local Radio, and briefly reading the news on
Newsnight on
BBC2.
Wrote and presented a schools radio series on
industrial geography, and was for a time an
aficionado of Radio 4's Bells on Sunday, becoming an expert on peals of Grandsire Doubles and Steadman Triples.
In the late 1970's she and partner Martine Ronaldson moved to
Sticklepath in
Devon (They later married in 1986). They renovated the cottage and she grew organic vegetables. She maintained a broad range of interests - attending evening classes studying
astronomy looking at what was a sky relatively clear of
light pollution; studying
Gaelic she tried it out while on walking holidays in the
Scottish Highlands and Islands, later returning to Radio 4 on a part time basis.
Noted for her forthright expression of her opinions of other people's usage of spoken English, plain speaking and treating people at all levels of seniority and none with the same straight forthright manner, because of this her views were highly prized.
She found it difficult to talk about herself or her problems, and always was far more interested in others and general gossip.
Having been diagnosed with
breast cancer and despite being breathless from the treatment she returned to Radio 4 although only working on the 6 O'Clock News until March of 2001 when the cancer returned. She died on
8 October 2001 in
Okehampton,
Devon from breast cancer.
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