by maggiephilbin | Jan 3, 2022 | News, Uncategorized
I spoke to Janice on the night before Christmas Eve. We said how much we loved each other and I simply couldn’t take in that this might be last time I’d hear her voice. She’s been a big part of my life for over forty years. First as my boyfriend’s sister, then...
by maggiephilbin | Nov 20, 2018 | News
It’s just two days away now… On Thursday 22nd November at  9pm on BBC4 that familiar theme tune will run and my stomach will turn inside out as I join Howard Stableford, Judith Hann and Hannah Fry for a special one off, live edition of Tomorrow’s...
by maggiephilbin | Dec 11, 2017 | News, Uncategorized
I am sure you will have seen the heartbreaking news about Keith who died earlier today. It is incredibly sad. Keith was a one-off – full of life, generous and with a focus on things that mattered – his family. I saw him two months ago at his sister Janice’s...
by maggiephilbin | Apr 4, 2017 | News
Can you help us to track down 30 Drama students who left Manchester University in 1977? In  frightening way, we’ve decided to regroup for a special celebration in May and have managed to track down 24 but lack contacts for the remaining people. We want to make...
by maggiephilbin | Dec 30, 2016 | News
I’m very thrilled and honoured to be awarded an O.B.E. It has come as a massive surprise and it’s been very hard to keep quiet about it for the past four weeks. ‘I do wish my lovely Mum and Dad were still alive to share this with me. They would have been so...
by maggiephilbin | Dec 29, 2016 | News
I’ve seen massive changes in broadcast since I answered a box numbered ad leading to my very first job. Back then there were just three analogue channels, typewriters rather than computers and ‘mobile’ phones were used to prop doors open. There are a...
