Hilda Tablet is a fictitious "twelve-tone composeress" created by Henry Reed in a series of radio comedy plays for the British Broadcasting Corporation's Third Programme.
Hilda is the inventor of musique concrète renforcée (literally, "reinforced concrete music"), and the composer of the all-female opera Emily Butter set in a department store.
Reeve plans to write a biography of the novelist Richard Shewin, and interviews various friends and relatives of the deceased author.
And included (among others): Denis Quilley, Leonard Sachs, Michael Flanders, Norman Shelley and Rose Hill.
Hilda's music, and the pop-songs of Owen Shewin, were created for the series by Donald Swann.