Seeking Mea Allen: Fleet Street’s Forgotten Pioneer

About the show

FELICITY GOODALL: Former journalist and foreign correspondent, author of six books, a play and several pantomimes. A former BBC Radio 4 Arts Producer, she has also worked in television.

TALK: My new book- Seeking Mea Allan: Fleet Street’s Forgotten Pioneer is out on July 6th this year. It is the account of uncovering the life of the only woman to report from Belsen, a woman who went on to report on the Belsen War Crimes trial and after the war became a gardening writer and was known as The Gardener’s Biographer. It is also a story of forbidden love, prejudice and the treasures to be uncovered in archives.