Named after Saint Valentine, Britten was born in Fulham, London.
She started with the BBC during the Second World War and worked there until her retirement on 13 December 1963.
She subsequently ran a guest house belonging and adjacent to Buckfast Abbey in Devon.
[1] She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 17 September 1956.
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