Mollie Lee

This article is about the BBC Radio presenter. For the American librarian, see Mollie Huston Lee.

Mollie Lee
Education	University of London
Occupation	Radio personality

Mollie Kate Emily Carpenter Lee (née Hales) was a BBC Radio presenter, known for her appearances on Woman's Hour, and novelist, under the names Mollie Hales and Mollie Carpenter Hales.

Life

Mollie Hales was from Kent. She studied journalism at University of London and Russian at the School of Slavonic Studies. During that period, she undertook an internship at the Chatham Observer. She joined the BBC's Balkan service during World War II, transferring to its new Russian Service after the war. From there she moved to Woman's Hour, in 1957. While working for Woman's Hour, she was able to visit Russia for the first time.

Lee edited a series of BBC books featuring items from Woman's Hour.

She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 25 September 1971.

She was married, with one daughter.

Bibliography

Novels

• The Cat and the Medal (1938)
• A Debt (1949)
• Home for a Night (1951)
• So Many Zeros (1961)

Radio

• Lee, Mollie, ed. (1967). BBC Radio Woman's Hour: A Selection. BBC Books. ISBN 978-0563073246.
• Lee, Mollie, ed. (1969). BBC Radio Woman's Hour: A Second Selection. BBC Books. ISBN 978-0563090892.
• Lee, Mollie, ed. (1971). BBC Radio Woman's Hour: A Third Selection. BBC Books. ISBN 978-0563120001.