The Flowers That Bloom In A Broadcasting Studio

Radio Record, 5 June 1936, Page 56

The Flowers That Bloom In A

Broadcasting Studio

To Covent Garden at 4 am N that warren of super-efficiency, Broadcasting House, London, it comes as a pleasant surprise to discover that there is:one little room where summer linyers all the year, and a pleasant-faced woman spends the days among flowers gathered from the English countryside. Mrs, Webb Smith, whose photograph you see here, .ooks after the flowers in the studios-and a pretty big job it is, for the atmosphere of the B.B.C. withers the ‘blooms inno time. Mrs. Smith goes down to Covent Garden every morning at four and does her floral marketing. A flower painter by profession, she is a keen garidener too, and-every week-end spends some time in her Sussex garden. She has often been congratulated by famous broadcasters for her achievements at floral decorations, which, she says, are planned to soothe the fears of the most nervous, who are dreading the ordeal] of approaching the’ microphone.