Career
Born in 1904, Arnold joined the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1929, as a typist. She first appeared on air as a stand-in for a pianist who was unwell. As the presenter of These You Have Loved, playing and talking about light classical recordings, she was one of the British Broadcasting Corporation"s (and thus the United Kingdom"s) first female disc jockies.
She also arranged music for male voice choirs.
In 1934, she featured on a cigarette card, in the Wills series Radio Celebrities. She also appeared as a "castaway" on the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 25 September 1967.
Arnold died in 1969 at Denham, Buckinghamshire.
