Her credits include the later series of Tales of the Unexpected, a television version of Cause Célèbre by Sir Terence Rattigan, six six-hour P. D. James thrillers, and adaptations of Somerset Maugham and Eric Ambler.

Gould spent several sessions with him urging a change of mind because she saw a series as an international hit and the proposed leading actor, Roy Marsden, as a future star.

Sir John relented, got Board backing, and the acquisition of rights by Gould resulted in six world-acclaimed series based on the James books and Marsden as Inspector Dalgliesh being catapulted to stardom, the programmes selling to sixty-five countries.

[3] A proposal for a drama series Spitfire Girls based on the women pilots of the World War II Air Transport Auxiliary won the enthusiastic support of Sir John,[4] with actors including Janet Suzman and writers including Peter Nichols, Shelagh Delaney, and Tom Kempinski interested in becoming involved, the latter even braving his severe agoraphobia to come in to London to discuss the project.

Gould was head-hunted by Joop van den Ende's JE Entertainment; but when the company exited UK production in 1992, she returned to her first interest, documentary film-making.

Her views have not always made her popular, and in July 2011 she and a fellow guest Jonathan Freedland were repeatedly disrupted and shouted down, when arguing against the cultural boycotting of Israel in a debate being held as part of the South Bank Literature Festival.

Gould's father Oscar was Chief of the US Army Corps of Engineers Marine Design Division (CEMDC) in Philadelphia from 1969 to 1990 and after retirement was Consultant to the International Cargo Gear Bureau.

Her mother Kay (née Karash) was a social worker fighting for the rights of impoverished black residents of the Philadelphia ghettoes in the 1930s and during World War II served as a US Army recruitment officer.

Unlike the case of surgeon Ian Paterson, who was jailed in 2017 for twenty years,[24] Gilmore was excused from trial due to illness, one of scores of doctors allowed to voluntarily remove themselves from the medical register rather than face investigations into their fitness to practise.

After intravenous chemotherapy the situation was not improving, but participation in the Royal Marsden / Institute of Cancer Research plasmaMATCH trial[26][27] revealed she was one of a tiny cohort of patients with a rare HER2 receptor mutation.

In December 2020, Gould was inducted into the Court of Honour of Distinguished Daughters of the academically prestigious Philadelphia High School for Girls [3] Archived 29 July 2021 at the Wayback Machine; she joined the ranks of other recipients: women's rights lawyer Gloria Allred Gloria Allred; Helene Hanff, author of '84 Charing Cross Road' Helene Hanff and Barbara Harris, Bishop of Washington DC Barbara Harris (bishop).