Trivia

She was the first female editor of a broadsheet in the UK.

She is a descendant of Peter and Elizabeth Gumley, cabinet makers and John Gumley (c.1670-1728) a cabinet maker and looking glass maker who introduced bevelling to England. John Gumley's children John (the younger) (c.1695-c.1749) was a glass manufacturer, East India merchant and politician, Samuel (c.1698-1763) was an army officer and Anna Maria (c.1694-1758) married William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath .

'Peter as Pilgrim' (1982) was the first programme she scripted and produced for BBC Radio 4.

Her daughter Helena played a violin player extra in An Education (2009).

Her son John played John Duddy in Shepherd's Bush Murders (2016) and Tall Customer in The Outfit (2022).

(1988-1989) She was the series editor for "Not on Sunday" for Channel 4.

Named Catholic Woman of the Year in 1980.

Some of her books started as programmes she scripted and produced for BBC Radio 4.

Mother of artist, The Outfit (2022) actor and film extra John Gumley-Mason.

Appeared in Bridgerton (2020), Mary & George (2024) and Ludwig (2024). She has been doing some work as a film extra.

Read Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge.

Great-niece of Sir Louis Stewart Gumley LLD (1870-1941), Lord Provost of Edinburgh (1935-1938).

First bi-medial (both television and radio) producer in London.

Her mother, Eileen studied composition under American composer, Aaron Copland at the Julliard School in New York during the Prohibition era.

Her husband is the son of BBC radio producer Michael Mason, grandson of film director, Herbert Mason and novelist and script writer, Daisy Fisher and great-grandson of Victorian vocalist, Emma Louisa Fisher (née Beasley).

Worked in 40 countries.