- She was the first female editor of a broadsheet in the UK.
- She is a descendant of Peter and Elizabeth Gumley, cabinet makers and John Gumley (c.1670-1728) a cabinet maker and looking glass maker who introduced bevelling to England. John Gumley's children John (the younger) (c.1695-c.1749) was a glass manufacturer, East India merchant and politician, Samuel (c.1698-1763) was an army officer and Anna Maria (c.1694-1758) married William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath .
- 'Peter as Pilgrim' (1982) was the first programme she scripted and produced for BBC Radio 4.
- Her daughter Helena played a violin player extra in An Education (2009).
- Her son John played John Duddy in Shepherd's Bush Murders (2016) and Tall Customer in The Outfit (2022).
- (1988-1989) She was the series editor for "Not on Sunday" for Channel 4.
- Named Catholic Woman of the Year in 1980.
- Some of her books started as programmes she scripted and produced for BBC Radio 4.
- Mother of artist, The Outfit (2022) actor and film extra John Gumley-Mason.
- Appeared in Bridgerton (2020) and Mary & George (2024).
- Read Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge.
- Great-niece of Sir Louis Stewart Gumley LLD (1870-1941), Lord Provost of Edinburgh (1935-1938).
- First bi-medial (both television and radio) producer in London.
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