{"id":21890,"date":"2022-09-12T12:15:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T10:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1705887"},"modified":"2022-09-12T12:46:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T10:46:24","slug":"welsh-writer-and-broadcaster-mavis-nicholson-dies-aged-91","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/welsh-writer-and-broadcaster-mavis-nicholson-dies-aged-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh writer and broadcaster Mavis Nicholson dies aged 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Molly Moss\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Monday, 12 September 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Mavis Nicholson has died aged 91.<\/p>\n<p>The television interviewer, broadcaster and writer was best known for Mavis on 4 and Afternoon Plus.<\/p>\n<p>Her grandson Ben Nicholson confirmed the tragic news of her passing on Saturday 10th September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am incredibly sad to confirm that my grandmother Mavis Nicholson passed away on Thursday,\u201d he wrote on <a href=\"\/\/twitter.com\/BRNicholson\/status\/1568559251106271232&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. \u201cShe was a force of nature, an incredible broadcaster, so open-hearted and interested in everyone. She was also my Nana and I miss her like mad. Hope she\u2019s with my granddad Geoff now.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;\" data-dnt=\"&quot;true&quot;\"><p lang=\"&quot;en&quot;\" dir=\"&quot;ltr&quot;\">I am incredibly sad to confirm that my grandmother Mavis Nicholson passed away on Thursday. She was a force of nature, an incredible broadcaster, so open-hearted and interested in everyone. She was also my Nana and I miss her like mad. Hope she\u2019s with my granddad Geoff now. <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/t.co\/DN7seKEx7T&quot;\">pic.twitter.com\/DN7seKEx7T<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Ben Nicholson (@BRNicholson) <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/BRNicholson\/status\/1568559251106271232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;\">September 10, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async=\"\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&quot;\" charset=\"&quot;utf-8&quot;\"\/><p>Mavis was\u00a0born in Briton Ferry near Swansea in the 1930s before becoming a student at Swansea University where she met her future husband, Geoffrey Nicholson.<\/p>\n<p>The pair moved to London and Nicholson worked\u00a0as a journalist on women\u2019s magazines, including Nova, in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Her second career as a broadcaster began when she appeared on Thames Television\u2019s news magazine programme Today,\u00a0fronted by Eamonn Andrews, as a guest and was then asked by executive Jeremy Isaacs to come back on air regularly.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholson went on to join an afternoon weekly programme, Tea Break, alongside Jill Tweedie, Judith Chalmers, Mary Parkinson and Rita Dando.<\/p>\n<p>She then hosted various\u00a0British television programmes such as Good Afternoon and Afternoon Plus. In the 1970s to the 1990s, she hosted Mavis on 4 where she interviewed celebrities including Elizabeth Taylor, David Bowie, Kenneth Williams, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.<\/p>\n<p>When Michael Grade axed Mavis on 4 in 1988, he was suspected of mistreating an older woman on television and letters poured in accusing him of ageism, which he denied in a letter to the Times.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC took Nicholson on to host the television daytime phone-in Open Air.<\/p>\n<p>In 1991, Nicholson returned to Channel 4 to present further series including Third Wave, Moment of Crisis and In with Mavis.<\/p>\n<p>She continued to front TV and radio shows in the \u201990s but also returned to writing, publishing autobiography Martha Jane and Me: A Girlhood in Wales (1991), as well as penning an agony aunt column in The Oldie magazine.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, BBC Wales ran a documentary as tribute to Nicholson\u2019s life and career.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholson\u2019s husband Geoffrey died in 1999. 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Her grandson Ben Nicholson confirmed the tragic news of her passing on Saturday 10th September. \u201cI am incredibly sad to confirm that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":21891,"template":"","categories":[5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/09\/welsh-writer-and-broadcaster-mavis-nicholson-dies-aged-91-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/09\/welsh-writer-and-broadcaster-mavis-nicholson-dies-aged-91-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/09\/welsh-writer-and-broadcaster-mavis-nicholson-dies-aged-91-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/09\/welsh-writer-and-broadcaster-mavis-nicholson-dies-aged-91-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/09\/welsh-writer-and-broadcaster-mavis-nicholson-dies-aged-91-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/09\/welsh-writer-and-broadcaster-mavis-nicholson-dies-aged-91-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/09\/welsh-writer-and-broadcaster-mavis-nicholson-dies-aged-91-2048x1366.jpg",2048,1366,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Molly Moss Published: Monday, 12 September 2022 at 12:00 am Mavis Nicholson has died aged 91. The television interviewer, broadcaster and writer was best known for Mavis on 4 and Afternoon Plus. Her grandson Ben Nicholson confirmed the tragic news of her passing on Saturday 10th September. \u201cI am incredibly sad to confirm that&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/21890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}