Churchman gained prominence as Grace Archer, wife of Phil, in the long-running BBC radio drama series The Archers;[1] the series attracted publicity when Grace died after a fire on the night that ITV launched in 1955.
After learning repertory and theatre, she specialised in radio and voice work for film and television.
[4] She strongly suspected the producer was glad to be rid of her at the time as she had discovered that some of her cast members in this regional, Birmingham, production, were not being paid Equity minimum rates and raised the matter.
Along with many story-telling and reading roles on the BBC, she also performed as: Sara in the series Sara and Hoppity, Marla and Cassie in Space Patrol, the voice of Alpha Centauri in the series Doctor Who,[5] and Soo the computer in The Flipside of Dominick Hide and its sequel.
She married Tony Pilgrim MBE, a senior BBC engineer, in 1951; they celebrated their Diamond Wedding anniversary in 2011.