Elizabeth Cowell

[1][2] She was one of the first three BBC Television Service presenters, along with Jasmine Bligh and Leslie Mitchell.

[3][4][5] She began announcing when the Television Service started in 1936 and made her debut on Monday 31 August that year at Alexandra Palace in London.

She worked as a driver for the Air Ministry early during World War II before she returned to the BBC.

Cowell was the voice of 'the Woman' on the soundtrack of Paul Rotha's documentary Land of Promise (1946).

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