Gillian Darley has compiled a radio tribute to Bournemouth-born architect Elisabeth Scott who won fame by designing Stratford’s Royal Shakespeare Theatre.
Elisabeth Scott, Architect is on BBC Radio 3 on Sunday 30 January at 9.30pm.
The search for new facts took Gillian Darley to looking at the local connections from Elisabeth’s childhood in Poole Road to her last major work, Bournemouth’s Pier Theatre.
The presenter has written an article about the forgotten architect in The Guardian.
See page 136.