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Born in Edinburgh, Eileen studied at the Royal College of Music for 18 months with the piano as her first instrument.
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After working in precision engineering during the war, she wrote to the British Broadcasting Corporation asking if there were any vacancies in the schools music department and she was given temporary employment as a junior programme assistant, which later became permanent. During the next seven years her assignments included Music And Movement, Music Box and orchestral concerts. She also wrote the script for a series of on the lives of great composers called Adventures In Music.
Foreign Listen With Mother she recorded the traditional nursery rhymes with George Dixon in 1950, when the programme began.
She was also responsible for choosing the wide variety of music that opened each programme. The closing music, the Berceuse from Faure"s Dolly Suite for piano duet, was recorded by Eileen and Roger Fiske.
She also worked regularly until 1964 as a part-time producer in schools radio.
