Marjorie Anderson MBE (7 November 1913 – 14 December 1999)[1] was a British actress and leading BBC radio broadcaster for over thirty years, including on the programme Woman's Hour from 1958 to 1972.

Her father Harold Anderson was a naval intelligence officer, who died in Belgium just after World War I, when Marjorie was a little girl; she was raised by her mother, Charlotte Augusta Boyle Anderson, a property dealer.

[4][5] Anderson began her career as an actress,[6] appearing in T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral on the West End and in a 1938 touring company in the United States.

[4] On American radio, Anderson played Margot Lane, female lead in popular crime drama The Shadow, from 1939 to 1940 and again from 1943 to 1944.

[9][10] Anderson had multiple sclerosis which, as it progressed, affected her speech and thus her radio career, prompting her retirement.