Ursula Eason

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".}} 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''. Provided by Wikipedia