Gillian Reynolds CBE (née Morton; born 15 November 1935)[1] is an English radio critic.
[5] After leaving Oxford, she undertook postgraduate research at Mount Holyoke College in the United States for a year.
[1] Reynolds became the radio critic of The Daily Telegraph in 1975; she previously held the same post at The Guardian for seven years from 1967.
"[10] After 42 years at the same title, in January 2018 Reynolds left The Daily Telegraph for The Sunday Times, where she continued reviewing radio.
[3] Then aged 82, she told Julia Llewellyn Smith in an interview: "It's a strike against ageism; proof that some employers value the benefits of long experience over the bouncy energy of youth".
[14] In June 2018, she appeared as the castaway on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, when her selections included recordings by Earth, Wind & Fire, Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Shostakovitch, Beethoven and Richard Burton.