Monica Sims was born in 1925, she spent three seasons working in theatres in Windsor and then moved to CNN news.
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 Woman's Hour, a position she held until 1967. She then moved to BBC Television 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". 
