Ursula Eason, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ursula Eason

Radio and television producer

Date of Birth: 19-Aug-1910

Place of Birth: Streatham, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 25-Dec-1993

Profession: radio producer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Ursula Vernon Eason (19 August 1910 – 25 December 1993) was a BBC radio broadcaster, television producer and administrator, and a pioneer of television programmes for deaf children in the 1950s and '60s. Eason joined the BBC in 1933 as the Children's Hour organiser in Belfast, a position she held for 18 years, becoming one of the "radio aunties".
She was transferred to BBC television in London in 1952, and subsequently appointed Assistant Head of Children's Programmes under Freda Lingstrom.
Hearing-impaired herself, Eason insisted that programmes for deaf children made use of signing.
She also transformed a rather pedestrian series of five-minute children's programmes the BBC had acquired from France into what became a cult classic, The Magic Roundabout.