Freda Violet Lingstrom OBE (23 July 1893 – 15 April 1989) was a BBC Television producer and executive, responsible for pioneering children's programmes in the early 1950s. She and her friend Maria Bird together created Andy Pandy and The Flower Pot Men.
Freda Violet Lingstrom OBE (23 July 1893 – 15 April 1989) was a BBC Television producer and executive, responsible for pioneering children's programmes...
it; don't you?". According to her adopted daughter Alison Gassier, FredaLingstrom got the idea for the show after spending time in her woodshed with...
16 January 1950 to 10 September 1982. It was originally produced by FredaLingstrom although for the majority of its run it was produced by George Dixon...
Bird helped found BBC Children's Television with her close friend FredaLingstrom with whom she set up Westerham Arts, the production company commissioned...
Watch with Mother was a cycle of children's programmes created by FredaLingstrom and Maria Bird. Broadcast by BBC Television from 1952 until 1975, it...
subsequently appointed Assistant Head of Children's Programmes under FredaLingstrom. Hearing-impaired herself, Eason insisted that programmes for deaf...
what used to be known as the Old Vicarage. BBC Children's TV founders FredaLingstrom and Maria Bird lived together in Westerham and named their production...
money for education. 1958. Our Mutual Friend: BBC serial adapted by FredaLingstrom. Unusual for most BBC series of the time, the serial still exists entirely...
were: Producer: FredaLingstrom. Narrator: Maria Bird and later in the 1970 remakes Vera McKechnie. Writer/composer: FredaLingstrom and Maria Bird. Singers:...
for Jimmy Page, John Williams and the King Brothers. Commissioned by FredaLingstrom and produced by Cliff Michelmore, the show featured children demonstrating...
Yorkshire but moved to Linköping in Sweden as a youngster, Swedish descent FredaLingstrom: BBC Television producer and executive, Swedish descent Olivia Llewellyn:...
Emilio Camilio Leopoldo Tafani (1920); Rambles in Richmond Park by FredaLingstrom (1924); Richmond Park by Charles Paine (1925); and Richmond Park, a...
Bernard-Marie Koltès, 41, French playwright and theatre director, AIDS. FredaLingstrom, 95, British BBC Television producer (Flower Pot Men, Andy Pandy)....
FredaLingstrom, the newly appointed head of BBC Children's Television. After striking up a conversation and establishing common interests, Lingstrom...
March Charles Lamb 88 actor 12 April Gerald Flood 61 actor 15 April FredaLingstrom 95 children's television commissioner (Andy Pandy) 15 June Geoffrey...
Principal Information Officer, Central Office of Information. Freda Violet Lingstrom, Head of Children's Programmes, Television, British Broadcasting...
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