Diana Morgan (screenwriter)

Her London stage debut was in Noël Coward's Cavalcade at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1931.

[1] On 8 September 1934, she married Robert MacDermot Barbour (born 1910 in Poona, India), who would become Head of BBC TV Drama in 1948.

[1] Morgan and MacDermot were later hired by stage director Norman Marshall, who was impressed with their witty and satirical scripts.

Although slow to begin, the show was a great success, selling out for its eight-week run.

Her television work included Emergency – Ward 10 and its spin-off Call Oxbridge 2000, while she also made contributions to radio and wrote two novels: Delia (1974) and Thomas the Fish.