[1] She was born on 30 March 1921 in Mönchengladbach, Germany, and died on 19 April 1999 in Highgate, London.
He joined the BBC World Service in 1956, working as a radio producer and becoming assistant head of drama.
[1] His own radio play The Spring of the Beast, an account of the friendship between Henry James and author Constance Fenimore Woolson, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as The Monday Play [1] on 26 May and repeated as Afternoon Theatre on 31 May 1986.
James is depicted as unable to overcome his inhibitions against loving either a woman or another man.
During the 1970s he began to campaign for gay rights, and around that time revealed his homosexuality, writing in 1984 an autobiography, The Haunted Mind, which was serialised in a newspaper.