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⚫ '''Joan Gilbert''' (11 August 1906 – 29 January 1991) was an English television broadcaster. She began working at the ] as a shorthand typist in 1933 and became secretary of the radio programme ''In Town Tonight'' four months later. In 1938, Gilbert moved into television as a scout and assistant to producer ] on the weekly programme '']''. She was at the BBC's Overseas Unit Light Entertainment presenting radio broadcasts for British troops stationed overseas. Upon the resumption of television broadcasting in the United Kingdom in 1946, Gilbert became editor-in-chief and presenter of the afternoon and evening editions of ''Picture Page'' and various programmes aimed at women.
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⚫ '''Joan Gilbert''' (11 August 1906 – 29 January 1991) was an English television broadcaster for the ]. She began working at the BBC as a shorthand typist in 1933 and became secretary of the radio programme ''In Town Tonight'' four months later. In 1938, Gilbert moved into television as a scout and assistant editor to producer ] on the weekly programme '']''. She was at the BBC's Overseas Unit Light Entertainment presenting radio broadcasts for British troops stationed overseas during the ]. Upon the resumption of television broadcasting in the United Kingdom in 1946, Gilbert became editor-in-chief and presenter of the afternoon and evening editions of ''Picture Page'' and various programmes aimed at women.


==Biography== ==Biography==
Gilbert was born in ] on 11 August 1906. She had most of her childhood at a French convent school in ] and did not see much of her father, who was on service in India.<ref name=TimesObituary>{{cite news|title=Joan Gilbert; Obituary|url=https://link-gale-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/apps/doc/A116773243/GPS?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=8e8587fe|work=]|date=6 February 1991|access-date=20 December 2024|via=Gale Academic OneFile|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="BirminghamGazette1954">{{cite news |last=Turney-Dann |first=Doreen |date=18 December 1954 |title=Joan Gilbert began as a secretary |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/birmingham-gazette-joan-gilbert-began-as/161293842/ |access-date=21 December 2024 |work=] |page=4 |via=]}}</ref> When she was young, Gilbert thought about becoming an interior designer or a dress designer.<ref name="BirminghamGazette1954" /> In 1933, she joined the staff at the ] as a shorthand typist in the sound radio variety department as a consequence of a golf match between her father and a BBC official.<ref name=IndependentObituary>{{cite news|last=Averill|first=June|title=Joan Gilbert|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-independent-joan-gilbert-the-indep/161257039/|work=]|page=25|date=12 February 1991|access-date=20 December 2024|via=]}}</ref><ref name=TeletronicEntry>{{cite web|title=Joan Gilbert|url=https://teletronic.co.uk/on-the-box/joan-gilbert|work=Teletronic|access-date=20 December 2024}}</ref> Four months later, she became the secretary of W. H. Hanson, the producer of the radio programme ''In Town Tonight''.<ref name=IndependentObituary/><ref name=TeletronicEntry/><ref name=MEN1949>{{cite news|last=D. Cross|first=Peter|title=Personalities on the screen|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/manchester-evening-news-personalities-on/161260879/|work=]|page=2|date=16 December 1949|access-date=20 December 2024|via=]}}</ref> Gilbert conducted interviews with many people alongside Brian Michie over a period of five years.<ref name="TVLoss1950">{{cite news|title=Television Loss|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/marylebone-and-paddington-mercury-televi/161261691/|work=Marylebone and Paddington Mercury|page=3|date=4 August 1950|access-date=20 December 2024|via=]}}</ref><ref name="LE1950">{{cite news|title=Untitled|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/lincolnshire-echo-untitled-23-february/161260950/|work=]|page=7|date=23 February 1950|access-date=20 December 2024|via=]}}</ref> She left the programme after Hanson died in 1937.<ref name="TeletronicEntry" /> The following year, Gilbert moved into television,<ref name="IndependentObituary" /> something she was fascinated by.<ref name="DailyMirror1947">{{cite news|title=Behind the Mike|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-mirror-behind-the-mike-daily-mir/161260778/|work=]|date=28 May 1947|page=8|access-date=20 December 2024|via=]}}</ref> She worked as a scout and assistant editor to ], the producer of the weekly programme '']''.<ref name="TimesObituary" /><ref name="TeletronicEntry" /><ref name="DailyMirror1947" /> She also wrote the programme's scripts and located people to interview,<ref name="IndependentObituary" /> conducting the interviews herself.<ref name="TVLoss1950" /><ref name="LE1950" /> Gilbert was born in ] on 11 August 1906 and was of Irish descent. She had most of her childhood spent at a French convent school in ] and did not see much of her father, who was on service in India.<ref name=TimesObituary>{{cite news|title=Joan Gilbert; Obituary|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A116773243/GPS?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=8e8587fe|work=]|date=6 February 1991|access-date=21 December 2024|via=Gale Academic OneFile|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="BirminghamGazette1954">{{cite news |last=Turney-Dann |first=Doreen |date=18 December 1954 |title=Joan Gilbert began as a secretary |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/birmingham-gazette-joan-gilbert-began-as/161293842/ |access-date=21 December 2024 |work=] |page=4 |via=]}}</ref> When she was young, Gilbert thought about becoming an interior designer or a dress designer.<ref name="BirminghamGazette1954" /> In 1933, she joined the staff at the ] as a shorthand typist in the sound radio variety department as a consequence of a golf match between her father and a BBC official.<ref name=IndependentObituary>{{cite news|last=Averill|first=June|title=Joan Gilbert|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-independent-joan-gilbert-the-indep/161257039/|work=]|page=25|date=12 February 1991|access-date=21 December 2024|via=]}}</ref><ref name=TeletronicEntry>{{cite web|title=Joan Gilbert|url=https://teletronic.co.uk/on-the-box/joan-gilbert|work=Teletronic|access-date=21 December 2024}}</ref> Four months later, she became the secretary of W. H. Hanson, the producer of the radio programme ''In Town Tonight''.<ref name=IndependentObituary/><ref name=TeletronicEntry/><ref name=MEN1949>{{cite news|last=D. Cross|first=Peter|title=Personalities on the screen|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/manchester-evening-news-personalities-on/161260879/|work=]|page=2|date=16 December 1949|access-date=21 December 2024|via=]}}</ref> Gilbert conducted interviews with many people alongside Brian Michie over a period of five years.<ref name="TVLoss1950">{{cite news|title=Television Loss|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/marylebone-and-paddington-mercury-televi/161261691/|work=Marylebone and Paddington Mercury|page=3|date=4 August 1950|access-date=21 December 2024|via=]}}</ref><ref name="LE1950">{{cite news|title=Untitled|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/lincolnshire-echo-untitled-23-february/161260950/|work=]|page=7|date=23 February 1950|access-date=21 December 2024|via=]}}</ref> She left the programme after Hanson died in 1937.<ref name="TeletronicEntry" /> The following year, Gilbert moved into television,<ref name="IndependentObituary" /> something she was fascinated by.<ref name="DailyMirror1947">{{cite news|title=Behind the Mike|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-mirror-behind-the-mike-daily-mir/161260778/|work=]|date=28 May 1947|page=8|access-date=21 December 2024|via=]}}</ref> She worked as a scout and assistant editor to ], the producer of the weekly programme '']''.<ref name="TimesObituary" /><ref name="TeletronicEntry" /><ref name="DailyMirror1947" /> She also wrote the programme's scripts and located people to interview,<ref name="IndependentObituary" /> conducting the interviews herself.<ref name="TVLoss1950" /><ref name="LE1950" />


When the BBC suspended its television service upon the outbreak of the ], Gilbert held jobs in wartime radio broadcasting.<ref name="TeletronicEntry" /> She was seconded to the ] for a short period of time.<ref name="BirminghamGazette1954" /> In June 1940, Gilbert was recalled by the BBC to work at its Overseas Unit Light Entertainment headquartered at the ], London as a presenter of radio broadcasts for British troops stationed overseas.<ref name="TimesObituary" /><ref name="IndependentObituary" /><ref name="DailyMirror1947" /> She was the presenter of the half-hour Monday evening programme ''Hello Gibraltar!'' in which she broadcast to troops stationed in ] and their families.<ref name="BirminghamGazette1954" /><ref name="DailyMirror1947" /><ref name=Clevedon1942>{{cite news|title=Woman's Realm|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/mercury-clevedon-nailsea-portishead/161260362/|work=]|page=4|date=27 June 1942|access-date=20 December 2024|via=]}}</ref> At the suggestion of Gibraltar's governor-general ], Gilbert travelled to Gibraltar in 1943 to meet troops who listened to the programme.<ref name="TimesObituary" /><ref name="TVLoss1950" /> She was the compere of the first ''Radio Girl Friend'' programmes for the Gibraltar Garrison,<ref name="TVLoss1950" /> and was the organiser of the ''American Eagle in Britain'' that broadcast to the United States from ] clubs in Belfast, Edinburgh and London until it closed in 1945.<ref name="TimesObituary" /><ref name="IndependentObituary" /> When the BBC suspended its television service upon the outbreak of the ], Gilbert held jobs in wartime radio broadcasting.<ref name="TeletronicEntry" /> She was seconded to the ] for a short period of time.<ref name="BirminghamGazette1954" /> In June 1940, Gilbert was recalled by the BBC to work at its Overseas Unit Light Entertainment headquartered at the ], London as a presenter of radio broadcasts for British troops stationed overseas.<ref name="TimesObituary" /><ref name="IndependentObituary" /><ref name="DailyMirror1947" /> She was the presenter of the half-hour Monday evening programme ''Hello Gibraltar!'' in which she broadcast to troops stationed in ] and their families.<ref name="BirminghamGazette1954" /><ref name="DailyMirror1947" /><ref name=Clevedon1942>{{cite news|title=Woman's Realm|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/mercury-clevedon-nailsea-portishead/161260362/|work=]|page=4|date=27 June 1942|access-date=21 December 2024|via=]}}</ref> At the suggestion of Gibraltar's governor-general ], Gilbert travelled to Gibraltar in 1943 to meet troops who listened to the programme.<ref name="TimesObituary" /><ref name="TVLoss1950" /> She was the compere of the first ''Radio Girl Friend'' programmes for the Gibraltar Garrison,<ref name="TVLoss1950" /> and was the organiser of the ''American Eagle in Britain'' that broadcast to the United States from ] clubs in Belfast, Edinburgh and London until it closed in 1945.<ref name="TimesObituary" /><ref name="IndependentObituary" />


Upon the resumption of television broadcasting in the United Kingdom in 1946, Gilbert became editor-in-chief and presenter of the afternoon and evening editions of the programme ''Picture Page''.<ref name="TimesObituary" /><ref name="IndependentObituary" /> There was no intention of putting her on-screen but she did so after a suitable presenter was not found.<ref name="IndependentObituary" /><ref name="TeletronicEntry" /> Gilbert shared interviewing duties of notable individuals to ordinary citizens with ] and reported on the ] at ] in 1947.<ref name="TimesObituary" /><ref name="IndependentObituary" /> Following a bout of illness in 1950, she stopped editing ''Picture Page'' and focused on interviewing and presenting for the programme;<ref name="TimesObituary" /> Gilbert was replaced by ] when she was unwell.<ref name="TeletronicEntry" /> She was made Television Personality of the year in 1951.<ref name="TimesObituary" /> Gilbert presented the fortnightly programme ''Weekend Magazine'' in mid-1952,<ref name="IndependentObituary" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Campey |first=George |date=7 June 1952 |title=Television |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-standard-television-evening-st/161292422/ |access-date=21 December 2024 |work=] |page=5 |via=]}}</ref> a re-branding of ''Picture Page''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=9 January 1953 |title=Hope for six million |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/manchester-evening-news-hope-for-six-mil/161292572/ |access-date=21 December 2024 |work=] |page=26 |via=]}}</ref> Upon the resumption of television broadcasting in the United Kingdom in 1946, Gilbert became editor-in-chief and presenter of the afternoon and evening editions of the programme ''Picture Page''.<ref name="TimesObituary" /><ref name="IndependentObituary" /> There was no intention of putting her on-screen but she did so after a suitable presenter was not found.<ref name="IndependentObituary" /><ref name="TeletronicEntry" /> Gilbert shared interviewing duties of notable individuals to ordinary citizens with ] and reported on the ] at ] in 1947.<ref name="TimesObituary" /><ref name="IndependentObituary" /> Following a bout of illness in 1950, she stopped editing ''Picture Page'' and focused on interviewing and presenting for the programme;<ref name="TimesObituary" /> Gilbert was replaced by ] when she was unwell.<ref name="TeletronicEntry" /> She was made Television Personality of the year in 1951.<ref name="TimesObituary" /> Gilbert presented the fortnightly programme ''Weekend Magazine'' in mid-1952,<ref name="IndependentObituary" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Campey |first=George |date=7 June 1952 |title=Television |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-standard-television-evening-st/161292422/ |access-date=21 December 2024 |work=] |page=5 |via=]}}</ref> a re-branding of ''Picture Page''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=9 January 1953 |title=Hope for six million |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/manchester-evening-news-hope-for-six-mil/161292572/ |access-date=21 December 2024 |work=] |page=26 |via=]}}</ref>


Gilbert made her last television appearance as a BBC staff member on 30 June 1953 and became a freelance broadcaster and writer,<ref name="TimesObituary" /><ref name="IndependentObituary" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=14 April 1953 |title=Joan Gilbert as TV free lance |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-joan-gilbert-as-tv-f/161293306/ |access-date=21 December 2024 |work=] |page=7 |via=]}}</ref> having left the corporation on amicable terms.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pearce |first=Emery |date=14 April 1953 |title=Talkative Joan quits BBC to freelance |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-herald-talkative-joan-quits-bbc-to/161293420/ |access-date=21 December 2024 |work=] |page=1 |via=]}}</ref> She was the presenter of various programmes aimed at women.<ref name="TelegraphObituary">{{cite news |date=8 February 1991 |title=Joan Gilbert |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-joan-gilbert-the-d/161257355/ |access-date=20 December 2024 |work=] |page=19 |via=]}}</ref> Gilbert hosted the afternoon magazine programme for housewives ''About the Home'' from 1951 to 1958,<ref name="GuinnessTV">{{cite book |last=Evans |first=Jeff |title=The Guinness Television Encyclopedia |url=https://archive.org/details/guinnesstelevisi0000evan/ |year=1995 |publisher=Guinness Publishing |location=], ] |page=7 |isbn=0-85112-744-4 |via=] |url-access=registration}}</ref> and the fortnightly magazine programme ''Joan Gilbert's Diary'' from September 1953 in which she interviewed notable individuals.<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 August 1953 |title=Joan Gilbert's "Diary" |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-joan-gilberts-diar/161293105/ |access-date=21 December 2024 |work=] |page=6 |via=]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=28 August 1953 |title=Joan Gilbert's New Feature |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/huddersfield-daily-examiner-joan-gilbert/161293347/ |access-date=21 December 2024 |work=] |page=5 |via=]}}</ref> Gilbert wrote a regular weekly column about the people she met and what she watched on television in the television magazine ''TV Mirror'' from December 1953 to August 1955.<ref name="TimesObituary" /><ref name="TeletronicEntry" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=1 December 1953 |title=TV Mirror |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-standard-tv-mirror-evening-sta/161293490/ |access-date=21 December 2024 |work=] |page=6 |via=]}}</ref> She joined the ] newspaper as a contributor of a weekly feature in February 1955.<ref>{{Cite news |date=4 February 1955 |title=Joan Gilbert joins the News of the World |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-sentinel-joan-gilbert-joins-the/161293745/ |access-date=21 December 2024 |work=] |page=4 |via=]}}</ref> Gilbert's final years saw her work in charity, particularly with ], and she was the London co-ordinator of ]'s appeal.<ref name="TimesObituary" /> Gilbert made her last television appearance as a BBC staff member on 30 June 1953 and became a freelance broadcaster and writer,<ref name="TimesObituary" /><ref name="IndependentObituary" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=14 April 1953 |title=Joan Gilbert as TV free lance |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-joan-gilbert-as-tv-f/161293306/ |access-date=21 December 2024 |work=] |page=7 |via=]}}</ref> having left the corporation on amicable terms.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pearce |first=Emery |date=14 April 1953 |title=Talkative Joan quits BBC to freelance |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-herald-talkative-joan-quits-bbc-to/161293420/ |access-date=21 December 2024 |work=] |page=1 |via=]}}</ref> She was the presenter of various programmes aimed at women.<ref name="TelegraphObituary">{{cite news |date=8 February 1991 |title=Joan Gilbert |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-joan-gilbert-the-d/161257355/ |access-date=21 December 2024 |work=] |page=19 |via=]}}</ref> Gilbert hosted the afternoon magazine programme for housewives ''About the Home'' from 1951 to 1958,<ref name="GuinnessTV">{{cite book |last=Evans |first=Jeff |title=The Guinness Television Encyclopedia |url=https://archive.org/details/guinnesstelevisi0000evan/ |year=1995 |publisher=Guinness Publishing |location=], ] |page=7 |isbn=0-85112-744-4 |via=] |url-access=registration}}</ref> and the fortnightly magazine programme ''Joan Gilbert's Diary'' from September 1953 in which she interviewed notable individuals.<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 August 1953 |title=Joan Gilbert's "Diary" |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-telegraph-joan-gilberts-diar/161293105/ |access-date=21 December 2024 |work=] |page=6 |via=]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=28 August 1953 |title=Joan Gilbert's New Feature |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/huddersfield-daily-examiner-joan-gilbert/161293347/ |access-date=21 December 2024 |work=] |page=5 |via=]}}</ref> Gilbert wrote a regular weekly column about the people she met and what she watched on television in the television magazine ''TV Mirror'' from December 1953 to August 1955.<ref name="TimesObituary" /><ref name="TeletronicEntry" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=1 December 1953 |title=TV Mirror |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-standard-tv-mirror-evening-sta/161293490/ |access-date=21 December 2024 |work=] |page=6 |via=]}}</ref> She joined the '']'' newspaper in February 1955 as a contributor of a weekly feature.<ref>{{Cite news |date=4 February 1955 |title=Joan Gilbert joins the News of the World |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-sentinel-joan-gilbert-joins-the/161293745/ |access-date=21 December 2024 |work=] |page=4 |via=]}}</ref> Gilbert's final years saw her work in charity, particularly with ], and she was the London co-ordinator of ]'s appeal.<ref name="TimesObituary" />


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English broadcaster (1906–1991)
Joan Gilbert
Born(1906-08-11)11 August 1906
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Died29 January 1991(1991-01-29) (aged 84)
OccupationBroadcaster
Years active1933–1958

Joan Gilbert (11 August 1906 – 29 January 1991) was an English television broadcaster for the BBC. She began working at the BBC as a shorthand typist in 1933 and became secretary of the radio programme In Town Tonight four months later. In 1938, Gilbert moved into television as a scout and assistant editor to producer Cecil Madden on the weekly programme Picture Page. She was at the BBC's Overseas Unit Light Entertainment presenting radio broadcasts for British troops stationed overseas during the Second World War. Upon the resumption of television broadcasting in the United Kingdom in 1946, Gilbert became editor-in-chief and presenter of the afternoon and evening editions of Picture Page and various programmes aimed at women.

Biography

Gilbert was born in Cambridge on 11 August 1906 and was of Irish descent. She had most of her childhood spent at a French convent school in Sussex and did not see much of her father, who was on service in India. When she was young, Gilbert thought about becoming an interior designer or a dress designer. In 1933, she joined the staff at the BBC as a shorthand typist in the sound radio variety department as a consequence of a golf match between her father and a BBC official. Four months later, she became the secretary of W. H. Hanson, the producer of the radio programme In Town Tonight. Gilbert conducted interviews with many people alongside Brian Michie over a period of five years. She left the programme after Hanson died in 1937. The following year, Gilbert moved into television, something she was fascinated by. She worked as a scout and assistant editor to Cecil Madden, the producer of the weekly programme Picture Page. She also wrote the programme's scripts and located people to interview, conducting the interviews herself.

When the BBC suspended its television service upon the outbreak of the Second World War, Gilbert held jobs in wartime radio broadcasting. She was seconded to the Ministry of Information for a short period of time. In June 1940, Gilbert was recalled by the BBC to work at its Overseas Unit Light Entertainment headquartered at the Criterion Theatre, London as a presenter of radio broadcasts for British troops stationed overseas. She was the presenter of the half-hour Monday evening programme Hello Gibraltar! in which she broadcast to troops stationed in Gibraltar and their families. At the suggestion of Gibraltar's governor-general Noel Mason-MacFarlane, Gilbert travelled to Gibraltar in 1943 to meet troops who listened to the programme. She was the compere of the first Radio Girl Friend programmes for the Gibraltar Garrison, and was the organiser of the American Eagle in Britain that broadcast to the United States from American Red Cross clubs in Belfast, Edinburgh and London until it closed in 1945.

Upon the resumption of television broadcasting in the United Kingdom in 1946, Gilbert became editor-in-chief and presenter of the afternoon and evening editions of the programme Picture Page. There was no intention of putting her on-screen but she did so after a suitable presenter was not found. Gilbert shared interviewing duties of notable individuals to ordinary citizens with Leslie Mitchell and reported on the Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in 1947. Following a bout of illness in 1950, she stopped editing Picture Page and focused on interviewing and presenting for the programme; Gilbert was replaced by Mary Malcolm when she was unwell. She was made Television Personality of the year in 1951. Gilbert presented the fortnightly programme Weekend Magazine in mid-1952, a re-branding of Picture Page.

Gilbert made her last television appearance as a BBC staff member on 30 June 1953 and became a freelance broadcaster and writer, having left the corporation on amicable terms. She was the presenter of various programmes aimed at women. Gilbert hosted the afternoon magazine programme for housewives About the Home from 1951 to 1958, and the fortnightly magazine programme Joan Gilbert's Diary from September 1953 in which she interviewed notable individuals. Gilbert wrote a regular weekly column about the people she met and what she watched on television in the television magazine TV Mirror from December 1953 to August 1955. She joined the News of the World newspaper in February 1955 as a contributor of a weekly feature. Gilbert's final years saw her work in charity, particularly with Christian Aid, and she was the London co-ordinator of Mother Teresa's appeal.

Personal life

She did not marry. Gilbert died on 29 January 1991.

References

  1. ^ "Joan Gilbert; Obituary". The Times. 6 February 1991. Retrieved 21 December 2024 – via Gale Academic OneFile.
  2. ^ Turney-Dann, Doreen (18 December 1954). "Joan Gilbert began as a secretary". Birmingham Gazette. p. 4. Retrieved 21 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Averill, June (12 February 1991). "Joan Gilbert". The Independent. p. 25. Retrieved 21 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Joan Gilbert". Teletronic. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
  5. D. Cross, Peter (16 December 1949). "Personalities on the screen". Manchester Evening News. p. 2. Retrieved 21 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Television Loss". Marylebone and Paddington Mercury. 4 August 1950. p. 3. Retrieved 21 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Untitled". Lincolnshire Echo. 23 February 1950. p. 7. Retrieved 21 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Behind the Mike". Daily Mirror. 28 May 1947. p. 8. Retrieved 21 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Woman's Realm". Clevedon Mercury. 27 June 1942. p. 4. Retrieved 21 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. Campey, George (7 June 1952). "Television". Evening Standard. p. 5. Retrieved 21 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Hope for six million". Manchester Evening News. 9 January 1953. p. 26. Retrieved 21 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Joan Gilbert as TV free lance". The Daily Telegraph. 14 April 1953. p. 7. Retrieved 21 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. Pearce, Emery (14 April 1953). "Talkative Joan quits BBC to freelance". Daily Herald. p. 1. Retrieved 21 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. "Joan Gilbert". The Daily Telegraph. 8 February 1991. p. 19. Retrieved 21 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. Evans, Jeff (1995). The Guinness Television Encyclopedia. Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Publishing. p. 7. ISBN 0-85112-744-4 – via Internet Archive.
  16. "Joan Gilbert's "Diary"". The Daily Telegraph. 25 August 1953. p. 6. Retrieved 21 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. "Joan Gilbert's New Feature". Huddersfield Daily Examiner. 28 August 1953. p. 5. Retrieved 21 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. "TV Mirror". Evening Standard. 1 December 1953. p. 6. Retrieved 21 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. "Joan Gilbert joins the News of the World". The Sentinel. 4 February 1955. p. 4. Retrieved 21 December 2024 – via Newspapers.com.

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