Erica Underwood

Erica Reid Underwood MBE (26 June 1907 – 1 February 1992) was an Australian expert in child psychology who became a radio broadcaster.

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

King and Underwood travelled in regional WA in an ABC van meeting women who listened to the program.

[4] In 1974 the Western Australian Institute of Technology, which would become Curtin University, employed Underwood as the first woman on the establishment's council.

[1] She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1978 New Year Honours in recognition of her work in radio, education and for the community.