Background
Mollie Woodley was born in Ducklington, Oxfordshire and raised in that county.
Mollie Woodley was born in Ducklington, Oxfordshire and raised in that county.
After World World War II, she became a writer and broadcaster for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio, on programmes such as In The Country, with Philosophy Drabble. She joined The Archers in 1970. and appeared as a "castaway" on the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 8 October 1983. Harris"s books about her life in Oxfordshire, include her three-volume autobiography, A Kind of Magic (1969), Another Kind of Magic (1971) and The Green Years (1976).
She wrote From Acre End (1982) about Eynsham, <the village where she lived.
Under the nom-de-plume of Margaret Woodford, Mollie Harris wrote the book "The Archers Country Cookbook" and was for a while a country cook resident on British Broadcasting Corporation-tv"s programme "Pebble Mill At One". She also wrote books about privies.
He died in 1982. Harris died on 2 October 1995 in Oxford.
