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Attempting to locate copy or transcript of Sirens of Fleet Street episode 2 broadcast by BBC 4 originally in 1999 and as recently as 2014. Jbh ^Talk 14:39, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm... some indications it might be a drama rather than biographical. Jbh ^Talk 14:54, 28 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Re-broadcast 23 Jan 2018 of BBC Radio 4 Extra. Closing announcement said that the letters between Mea Allan and May Chalmers around which the programme was constructed are in the Archives of the Imperial War Museum. Also said that she was the author of four novels. It was made explicit that her attachment to May Chalmers was a romantic one and she then lived in a same sex partnership with another woman in Suffolk. The programme did not cover her career after retirement from news journalism as a prolific writer on gardening.