Nancy Spain
Shows
Money Unlimited: The Touch (panellist)
My Word! (panellist)
Something to Shout About (panellist)
Biography
Writer and broadcaster. Her written works included a series of detective novels, several volumes of memoirs, and a biography of her great aunt Isabella Beeton. She was also a prolific newspaper columnist and familiar as a radio and TV panellist, including as Denis Norden's original partner on My Word!, as well as a regular contributor to Woman's Hour and its spin-off Home For the Day.
She died in 1964 when the plane taking her to cover the Grand National crashed on approach to Aintree Racecourse. Spain's final radio appearance came in a pre-recorded Shakespeare special of My Word! broadcast a few months later.
