Thea Holme

[1] She performed for both the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts and the BBC Repertory Company during World War II, as well as directing at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park.

[2] Holme also appeared for BBC television in several adaptations of classic novels including The Warden, Emma, Persuasion and Nicholas Nickleby.

[3] She was also a dramatist, adapting works for stage and radio, including Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey.

[4] She subsequently moved with her husband to Carlyle's House in Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London, when he became its curator, working for the National Trust.

[1] She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 4 October 1969,[5] and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.