 She published her autobiography in 1974 which was entitled "Don't Fence Me In".Houston was also in early episodes of radio's "The Clitheroe Kid", playing his Scottish mother in half a dozen 1958 broadcasts (but the role was quickly recast to use an English actress instead), and was a regular guest on radio panel show "Petticoat Line" chaired by Anona Winn.She died in London at the age of 77 on 9 February 1980.