[5] In December 1931, Wood was playing with the Alex Cohen Quartet when they gave the first broadcast performance of Walford Davies's Peter Pan Suite.
[8] In December 1932 the quartet were joined by George Barrett on flute to broadcast the first performance in England of Jan Brandts Buys's Nativity Quintet.
In September 1932 she performed a violin recital composed of the Havanaise by Saint-Saens, Paganini's Perpetuum Mobile and Nándor Zsolt's Dragonflies.
[15] In 1939 Wood played the Elgar Cello Concerto, arranged for viola by Lionel Tertis, with the Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra.
[19] On the 16th of December 1942 she gave the first broadcast performance of Elizabeth Maconchy's Viola Sonata with Tom Bromley (piano) on the BBC's Latin American Service.
[21] Also performed at this recital was Joseph Gibbs' D minor Sonata, at which the Musical Times critic noted that: "Miss Wood played it admirably."
Her pupil Howard Breakspear, principal viola of Opera North, referred to her as "The Dragon", stating she was, "as terrifying as she was inspirational".