Anna Margaret Home OBE (/ˈhjuːm/ HYOOM; born 13 January 1938) is an English television producer and executive who worked for most of her career at the BBC.
After graduating from Oxford University, where she read Modern History at St Anne's College from 1956,[1] Home joined the BBC in 1960.
"But when actors realised it was the opportunity to have 15 minutes' solo experience on television, they began to queue up to get on it, and having done a Jackanory became a bit like having done your Desert Island Discs.
"[6] Comedy actor Kenneth Williams, one of the most frequent participants in the series, recalled Home telling him: "Never sound as if you're patronizing the young.
"As the press launched into us and No 10 was complaining loudly to the DG," Home recalled, "the Department of Health became very interested – after all we were tackling just the issues they were concerned with, but better than they could.