11 Facts About Gillian Reynolds

Gillian Reynolds then continued her career at The Sunday Times, where she wrote about radio until 2021.

Gillian Reynolds was raised in a council house in Norris Green, Liverpool.

Gillian Reynolds was educated at Broad Square County Primary School and Liverpool Institute High School for Girls, followed by St Anne's College, Oxford, where she read English.

Later, Gillian Reynolds was involved in the group organising the events in Liverpool while the city was European City of Culture in 2008.

Gillian Reynolds is a Fellow of The Radio Academy, a trustee of the National Museum in Liverpool, a Fellow of the Royal Television Society and an Honorary Fellow of her old Oxford college, St Anne's.

Gillian Reynolds celebrated her 40 years with The Daily Telegraph by reporting in December 2015: "Radio is more popular with BBC audiences than TV, delivering 43 percent of the BBC's total audience" [the BBC being the UK's public broadcaster, then in its ninth decade].

Gillian Reynolds argued that "radio is perceived as a medium of the future not a dusty relic", crediting digital technology, interactivity by audiences and the huge breadth of creativity radio offers.

The former Gillian Morton married the American journalist Stanley Reynolds in 1958 after meeting the previous year during Morton's period in the United States.

Gillian Reynolds returned to London without the children because Reynolds was threatening to murder her.

Gillian Reynolds was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 1999 Birthday Honours for services to journalism and Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to radio.

Gillian Reynolds's luxury item was an endless supply of blended Scotch.