Monica Louie Sims (27 October 1925 – 20 November 2018) was a British

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who became Head of Children's Programmes,

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then Controller of

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. She was also a Vice-President of the

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, and Director of the

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BBC career

She spent three seasons working in theatres in Windsor and Bristol before joining BBC Radio as a Talks Producer, where she rose to become Editor of ''

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as Head of Children’s Programmes from 1967 to 1978 where she "believed passionately that the child audience deserved the best possible service and she, like her predecessors fought hard to increase the range of programming and the BBC’s investment in it". She moved back to BBC Radio to become Controller of

, replacing

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, a position she held from 1978 until 1983. The features producer Piers Plowright described her as "tactful but firm ... never a hair out of place, always elegant but with steel running through her". She described Radio 4 as providing "Surprise, through different perspectives on life through satire, poetry, storytelling, songs, argument, defining ideas, contact with opinion formers, writers, scientists, historians, philosophers and imaginative stimulus through works of art, music, drama, literature."

Later career

In 1985 Monica Sims produced a report ''Women in BBC Management''. It revealed that the number of women in top jobs was virtually the same as it had been a decade before - 6 women compared with 159 men. The report concluded with nineteen recommendations, including the appointment of a women's employment officer; more career guidance for both women and men; an examination of the policy on Appointments Boards for senior posts; an increase in the number of women attending Management Training Courses and the introduction of women-only courses as an experiment. Part-time work, job sharing and further options for flexible working should also be encouraged. After leaving the BBC she was also a Vice President of the

and Director of the

. She died on 20 November 2018 at the age of 93, at Richmond Village, Painswick, Gloucester.

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