Yvonne Antrobus
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1 November 1940
Yvonne Antrobus | |
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| Born | Yvonne Daphne Antrobus 1 November 1940 Cheltenham, UK |
| Occupations | Novelist, abridger, radio dramatist, actress |
| Years active | 1963–1996 |
| Spouse | [1] |
| Children | 2[1] |
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 Photo of Antrobus at Europeana |
Yvonne Daphne Antrobus (born 1 November 1940) is a British novelist, abridger, radio dramatist, and actress.
She has made over 100 abridgements and dramatisations for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 and for independent audio publishers, including Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre, The British Journalist by Andrew Marr and Days From A Different World by John Simpson. She was awarded the Abridgers' Silver Award by the Audio Book Association in 2003 for Churchill by Roy Jenkins. In 2009 BBC Radio 4 broadcast her series Diary of an On-Call Girl, based on the blogs and book by 'WPC Ellie Bloggs', the anonymous blogger who is also a serving British police officer.[2]
Antrobus has written two crime novels: True to Form (1998) and Cut in the Ground (1999).[3]
