TV & Radio

Marjorie Wallace appears regularly on TV and radio as a leading authority on mental health, campaigning journalism, healthcare policy, and many other topics. Marjorie has also featured on leading culture and arts programmes, such as Desert Island Discs. This section provides a selected archive of Marjorie’s broadcast interviews from recent years.

Media appearances

 
 
 
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BBC Radio 4: Desert Island Discs

My castaway this week is mental health campaigner Marjorie Wallace, Founder and Chief Executive of the charity SANE. Her work involves ensuring those who need support for their problems find not just a sympathetic and understanding ear, but the practical help they need to cope and carry on with their lives. It’s a vital service and one she feels passionate about.

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BBC: Screen Two - The Silent Twins

Twins June and Jennifer Gibbons speak only to each other in a language of their own creation. As young teens, they commit a violent crime. After 14 years in Broadmoor Psychiatric Institution, freedom visits them in a mysterious way.

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BBC Radio 4: Inheritance Tracks - Marjorie Wallace

Marjorie Wallace is the Founder and Chief Executive of SANE. She inherits Chopin's Ballade in G minor played by Vladimir Ashkenazy and passes on 'If I Loved You' from the original movie soundtrack of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel.

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BBC Radio 4: Woman’s Hour - Marjorie Wallace interview

…Well if you do get married, what are you going to wear? And, we specifically ask: what if it wasn’t your first time? Marjorie Wallace, pioneering journalist and chief executive of the mental health charity SANE, who recently got married at 78 to Business Tycoon John Mills – and you did it in white!

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“Single-minded and fearless, reaching for almost impossible targets, she gets results. She has a fierce mission which gleams impressively in her eye.”

– Polly Toynbee, The Independent on Sunday