Ursula Vernon Eason | |
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| Born | 19 August 1910 Streatham, London, England |
| Died | 25 December 1993 (aged 83) |
| Education | Mount Nod School, Streatham |
| Alma mater | University College London |
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| Employer | BBC |
| Known for | Television programmes for deaf children |
Ursula Vernon Eason (19 August 1910 – 25 December 1993) was a BBC radio broadcaster, television producer and administrator, and a pioneer of television programmes for deaf children in the 1950s and '60s.
Eason joined the BBC in 1933 as the Children's Hour organiser in Belfast, a position she held for 18 years, becoming one of the "radio aunties".[a] She was transferred to BBC television in London in 1952, and subsequently appointed Assistant Head of Children's Programmes under Freda Lingstrom. Hearing-impaired herself, Eason insisted that programmes for deaf children made use of signing. She also transformed a rather pedestrian series of five-minute children's programmes the BBC had acquired from France into what became a cult classic, The Magic Roundabout.
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