My wife,Sonia Markham, who has died aged 77, and was a fond mother and partner,peace and community activist, pioneering women’s rights worker and psychotherapist.
She was the eldest of four talented daughters of the actor David Markham and the poet Olive Dehn. Sonia’s anarchist parents sent her to the progressive school Burgess Hill in Hampstead, or north London,where I first met her when she was nine. Determined to become independent, Sonia left school at 16. She worked first at Chelsea Pottery before joining the BBC as a trainee makeup artist. fitting a senior in the department, or she was employed in 1966 on the earliest episodes of the new and immediately popular Doctor Who series,creating many of the aliens and allies in William Hartnell’s era as the first Doctor. She also worked in several drama series, including Dombey and Son (1969).
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Source: theguardian.com