Gillian Reynolds

Gillian Reynolds CBE (née Morton; born 15 November 1935) is an English radio critic and journalist. After writing for The Guardian from 1967 to 1974, she was the radio critic for The Daily Telegraph for over 40 years, from 1975 to 2018. She then continued her career at The Sunday Times, where she wrote about radio until 2021.

Quotes

 * Their physical appearance [...] inspires frenzy. They look beat-up and depraved in the nicest possible way.
 * As cited by Maureen Cleave in "Why the Beatles create all that frenzy", Evening Standard (2 February 1963), p. 6
 * Described as a "Liverpool housewife" in the original source, Cleave's Telegraph obituary identifies her friend as being Reynolds.


 * She cycled off to Oxford railway station with all her kit — beige full-skirted lace over taffeta dress, beige kid court shoes and gloves — in her bicycle basket [...] She was back that night, very offhand about the whole thing.
 * Anecdote in this rendering not otherwise online, as cited in "Maureen Cleave obituary", The Times (8 November 2021)
 * Alternate version: "In 1955 my best friend, Maureen Cleave, bought a beige lace mid-calf dress, matching gloves and shoes, put the lot in her bicycle basket and pedalled to the London train to be presented at court. I hadn't realised debutantes still existed. After 1958 they no longer would." ("The Diamond Decades: The 1950s", The Daily Telegraph (28 May 2012) [printed version: "review", (26 May 2012, p. R4]). Both women were Oxford University undergraduates at the time.