Catherine King (radio broadcaster)

Catherine Helen King MBE (née Murdoch; 20 December 1904 – 2 January 2000) was an ABC broadcaster and community worker in Western Australia.

What had begun as a small project to interest parents in providing quality reading soon turned into an influential program recommending good books for young readers.

[4] The program was broadcast throughout WA and included music, live interviews and discussion on subjects from science and arts to cooking and parenting.

[5] In 1960 King was appointed to present a half-hour weekly television program, Women’s World, in addition to her radio commitments.

In 1966 King gave up her ABC position to travel with Alec to Melbourne, where he had been offered a chair in English at Monash University.