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appearances until well into the 1980s, memorably as a guest of Terry Wogan on his eponymous BBC chat show. In 1988, at the age of 99, she was the castaway on radio's "Desert Island Discs". In 1990, at the age of 101, she appeared at the National Theatre, talking about her long life and career.
Athene Seyler was President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) from 1950, and a member of the Theatrical Ladies' Guild. She also wrote "The
Athene Seyler
Athene Seyler, CBE (31 May 188912 September 1990) was an English actress.
Early life.
Athene Seyler was educated at Coombe Hill School in Surrey, a progressive co-educational school which disliked petitionary prayer and whose advanced biology classes studied Darwin's "On the Origin of Species". Seyler took part in an anti-blood sports demonstration, during which pupils captured the fox from the local hunt.
She was also active in the South Place Ethical Society during the 1920s, where her