Career
She was a British Broadcasting Corporation script editor from the 1960s and worked on key British Broadcasting Corporation drama series and serials including North and South (1975) and I, Claudius (1976). She was eventually given the chance to produce an adaptation of Mansfield Park (British Broadcasting Corporation 1983), later producing adaptations of Tender Is the Night (1985), Bleak House (1985) and Fortunes of War (1987), the latter two earned her British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations. She continues to work as a Consultant Producer on the Independent Television detective drama Midsomer Murders.