[2] Her radio broadcasts on Deutscher Kurzwellensender Atlantik were bounced over to Germany and primarily were aimed at spreading confusion and lowering morale among German forces, along with being littered with code messages for resistance fighters on the continent disguised as record labels and numbers.

[2] An oft-repeated story is that a broadcast by Bernelle caused a U-boat captain to surrender by informing him that his wife – whom he had not seen for two years – had given birth to twins.

Leslie briefly became notorious for assaulting Bernard Levin during a live transmission of That Was the Week That Was in 1962 for writing a hostile review of one of his wife's performances.

The show was An Evening of Savagery and Delight which had rave reviews at the Dublin Festival but lasted only three weeks at London's Duchess Theatre and polarised audiences.

[7] In 1978, Bernelle appeared Off Broadway in New York City in the American premiere of Bertolt Brecht's Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer, with Shelter West Theater Company at the Vam Dam Theatre, directed by W. Stuart McDowell, with an original musical score of ballads sung by Bernelle, composed by Tony Award-winning composer/arranger, Bruce Coughlin.