On a dismally wet February morning in 1925, a 45 year old woman walked along the Thames Embankment, anxious about the meeting she was about to attend.
The nervous figure was Mabel Constanduros.
Despite what she thought at the time, Mabel, as we will discover, would become a pioneer of British sitcoms and soap opera – oh, yes – she pioneered soap opera in the UK too. She was incredibly important to the evolution of broadcasting, yet few remember her, or have even heard of her.