Vivienne Chatterton

Vivienne Chatterton (8 June 1896 - 1 January 1974) was a British singer and noted radio actress of the 20th-century.

[1][2] Her early career was as a singer of lieder, oratorio and opera, with roles in a number of London shows.

She appeared a number of times in singing roles in the first full year of regular BBC Television broadcasting.

[4][5] She was engaged throughout the Second World War on children's programmes, and in her post-war career she became noted as radio actor, voicing the character of Mrs Mountford in the popular Mrs Dale's Diary,[6] and appearing in several hundred radio plays.

[1] Chatterton married L. Stanton Jefferies, the BBC's director of music.