 She encouraged David Attenborough to join BBC Television in 1952, appointed staff and commissioned ground-breaking programmes – such as "Zoo Quest"; "The Quiz Programme"; "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral"; "Your Life in Their Hands" and "A Matter of Life and Death" (early medical programmes), as well as programmes for children – "Muffin the Mule" (with Anne Hogarth, who pulled the strings), "Andy Pandy", and "Bill and Ben The Flowerpot Men" (with Freda Lingstrom and Maria Bird).After retiring from BBC in 1958 she became a senior figure in the Consumers' Association, which produced the first comparative tests of consumer products, including contraceptives.Mary Adams (née Campin) married in 1925 Samuel Vyvyan Adams (1900-1951), Conservative MP for Leeds West (1930-1945).