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Chapters: Sarah Miles, Verity Lambert, Jessica Hsuan, Olive Willis, Zerbanoo Gifford, Rebecca Hall, Cicely Saunders, Rhona Mitra, Vera Stanley Alder, Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker of Wallasey, Roedean School, Phyllis Pearsall, Beatrix Ong, Katharine Whitehorn, Honeysuckle Weeks, Lucy Griffiths, Tanya Streeter, Nancy Spain, Margery Fry, Margot Heinemann, Jill Balcon, Perdita Weeks, Adèle Geras, Margaret Cole, Edith Pretty, Buzz Goodbody, Tessa Dahl, Elizabeth Gloster, Elizabeth Devereux-Rochester, Enid Marx. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 116. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Verity Ann Lambert, OBE (27 November 1935 22 November 2007) was an English television and film producer. She is best known as the founding producer of the science-fiction series Doctor Who, a programme which has become a part of British popular culture, and for her association with Thames Television. Her many credits include Adam Adamant Lives!, The Naked Civil Servant, Rock Follies, Minder, Widows, G.B.H., Jonathan Creek and Love Soup. Lambert began working in television in the 1950s, and continued to work as a producer until the year she died. After leaving the BBC in 1969, she worked for other television companies, notably Thames Television and its Euston Films offshoot in the 1970s and 80s. She also worked in the film industry, for Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment, and from 1985 ran her own production company, Cinema Verity. The British Film Institute's Screenonline website describes Lambert as "one of those producers who can often create a fascinating small screen universe from a slim script and half-a-dozen congenial players." Women were rarely television producers in Britain at the beginning of Lambert's career. When she was appointed to Doctor Who in 1963 she was the youngest producer, and only female...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=190216 ... Read more