Annabelle dilke biography

BBC World Service's headquarters, Bush House, keeps many secrets.

In the early 1970s, there was a woman who used to work on the sixth floor for the Talks Unit.

On the seventh floor there was a man who worked one of the World Service's Language Services.

She was a beautiful, well-educated young English lady. He was a grey-haired Bulgarian writer who had defected from his totalitarian country to the West.

She used to write "central talks" - old BBC speak for news essays written in English for use in any of the World Service's many languages - he used to translate them and fly from his desk to the studio to broadcast them.

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Once he asked her boss to introduce them and her boss invited both of them for lunch. For the next two years they met in different places around Bush House, keeping their relationship secret from their colleagues.

In 1975 they secretly went to Italy, where she broke her leg, and later that year when they married, she came to the wedding party