Anne Hilda Symonds was an English broadcaster on culture and politics for the BBC World Service.
10 Facts About Anne Symonds
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Anne Symonds supported her mother financially and let her stay over in London and Sutton Courtenay.
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At the age of eight, Anne Symonds was sent to the Farmhouse School, near Wendover, where students were required to undertake farm work.
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Anne Symonds made friends with Anne and Judith Stephen, nieces of Virginia Woolf.
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In 1939, she travelled to America, and in May 1940, she married an Oxford friend, Richard Anne Symonds, who was sent to India with the Cripps Mission.
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In 1948, Anne Symonds was divorced from her husband and applied for a job with the BBC Overseas Service, commissioning talks and making arts and other programmes.
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Anne Symonds worked on Under Big Ben and the Meet an MP spot for London Calling Europe.
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Anne Symonds was close to Hugh Gaitskell and Denis Healey.
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Anne Symonds is the father of Carrie Johnson, the wife of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
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Anne Symonds died on 6 February 2017, at the age of 100.