标题: 2015.11.01 心理健康运动者和SANE的首席执行官马乔里-华莱士 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-3-23 23:27 标题: 2015.11.01 心理健康运动者和SANE的首席执行官马乔里-华莱士 Kirsty Young's castaway is the mental health campaigner and Chief Executive of SANE, Marjorie Wallace.
After leaving University College London with a psychology and philosophy degree, her first job in the media was working on The Frost Programme with David Frost. She went on to produce religious programmes and became a current affairs reporter and director for the BBC. She joined the Sunday Times Insight team as an investigative journalist and wrote a series of articles highlighting the financial and emotional plight of young Thalidomide victims. Her articles on mental illness - The Forgotten Illness - elicited a huge public response and in 1986 she founded the mental health charity SANE. She has received numerous awards for her journalism and books and has twice won the Campaigning Journalist of the Year award.
In December 2008 she was awarded the CBE for services to mental health.
