Mavis Nicholson

Mavis Nicholson was born in 1930 In Briton Ferry, south Wales. After university, she became an advertising copywriter and then a fulltime mother. She was a forty year old mother of three when she began presenting ‘Good Afternoon’, which was followed by many other programmes, including ‘Mavis on 4’. She was a grandmother of three when she began her famous chat show, ‘Mavis Catches Up With…’. Elizabeth Taylor, Kenneth Williams, Kenny Everett, David Bowie, James Baldwin, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore featured on her stellar list of interviewees. In 2016, BBC One Wales broadcast a profile called Being Mavis Nicholson: the Greatest TV Interviewer of All Time? Mavis died in 2022.