She was an accomplished television and radio performer, undoubtedly best known to modern radio audiences as "Julia Pargetter" in the BBC Radio 4 drama The Archers. "Pargetter" was the third character she had created for the show, by which she had been intermittently employed from 1965-2005. She died in the BBC Birmingham studios minutes after completing an episode. Surprisingly, the role for which she won greatest critical acclaim was in a medium mostly foreign to her career. She was nominated for a BAFTA for her role in the Richard Attenborough film Oh! What a Lovely War (1969).