Yvonne Littlewood, who has died aged 95, was BBC television’s first female producer and director in its light entertainment department. Along with Patricia Foy for music, Margaret Dale for dance and Grace Wyndham Goldie for talk programmes, she was a trailblazer for women behind the scenes in television.
Her early successes included the Eurovision song contest in 1960, when the fifth annual extravaganza of countries battling for the musical title took place in London for the first time, at the Royal Festival Hall. Littlewood worked on it as the programme coordinator, not helped when the scoreboard recorded Austria’s five votes to France as seven.
