Aunt Daisy

Maud Ruby Basham MBE (née Taylor; 30 August 1879 – 14 July 1963), usually known as Daisy Basham or professionally as Aunt Daisy, was a well-known New Zealand radio broadcaster from 1930 to 1963. She was born in London, England, and her family emigrated to New Plymouth in 1891. She married Frederick Basham in 1904, and they had three children.

During the 1920s Daisy broadcast programmes on the lives of composers illustrated with song.^[1] She was initially on the Government YA network and the private Friendly Road station in Auckland run by Colin Scrimgeour (Uncle Scrim), but she is remembered for her time on the ZB network (commercial, but run by the government) from 1933 to 1963. she averaged 202 words a minute during her shows and her morning show opened to the song 'Daisy Bell' and the greeting "Good Morning everybody".

References

1. ^ Monumental Stories. "Daisy Basham". http://www.monumentalstories.gen.nz/bio_41.html. Retrieved 24 April 2011. 

External links

• Biography in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
• Aunt Daisy from the 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
• The Aunt Daisy Story

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Name	Aunt Daisy
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Date of birth	30 August 1879
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Date of death	14 July 1963
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