 During the 1950s she was the producer of the BBC's French-Canadian department, with particular responsibility for BBC contributions to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's French-language newsreel, "Revue de l'actualité".Between 1953 and 1969 she was also an occasional contributor to the BBC Home Service and the BBC Light Programme as a presenter, interviewer, and panellist.As a travel writer she was considered something of a novelty in the early 1950s as a good-looking woman who travelled alone and engaged deeply and critically with local conditions.