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| Zena Skinner | |
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| Occupation | Television presenter  |
| Branch | Women's Royal Naval Service |
Zena Skinner (27 February 1927 – 7 March 2018) was a British chef, writer, and cookery expert on television and radio.
Skinner was born in Luton, and served in the Women's Royal Naval Service during World War II. After the war, she worked as a demonstrator at the Eastern Electricity Board showroom in Royston.
Her first TV appearance was in 1959. She presented cookery programmes for the BBC and, later, Channel 4. She also contributed to the Radio Times, and wrote several cookery books. Skinner appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs, on 3 March 1969. She founded a charity, Keech Hospice Care, in Luton and raised funds for the charity.
She died in 2018, aged 91.
References
- Benedict, David (7 September 1998). "Here's something I prepared earlier". The Independent. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
- ^ Ansell, Frazer (24 April 2013). "TV chef entertains Garston pensioners". Watford Observer. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
- "Desert Island Discs - Castaway : Zena Skinner". BBC Online. BBC. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
- ^ "Zena Skinner, TV chef and author, dies", BBC News, 8 March 2018
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