Mollie Harris

Mollie Woodley was born in Ducklington, Oxfordshire[2] and raised in that county.[1] After World War II, she became a writer and broadcaster for BBC Radio, on programmes such as In The Country, with Phil Drabble.[2] She joined The Archers in 1970. and appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 8 October 1983.[1]

Harris's books about her life in Oxfordshire, include her three-volume autobiography, A Kind of Magic (1969), Another Kind of Magic (1971) and The Green Years (1976).[2] She wrote From Acre End (1982) about Eynsham, the village where she lived,[2]. Mollie Harris wrote the book "The Archers Country Cookbook", which did appear under the name of "Martha Woodford", and was for a while a country cook resident on BBC television programme Pebble Mill at One. She also wrote books about privies.[2]

She married Ginger Harris, a heating engineer, in 1937 and adopted his surname.[2] He died in 1982.[2] Harris died on 2 October 1995 in Oxford.[2]

The painter Gary Woodley, who illustrated some of her books, was her cousin.[2]

• —— (1969). A Kind of Magic. ISBN 9780701114503.
• —— (1971). Another Kind of Magic.
• —— (1976). The Green Years.
• —— (1977). The Archer's Country Cookbook.
• —— (1982). From Acre End: a portrait of a village.
• —— (1984). Cotswold Privies.
• —— (1987). The Magic of the Cotswold Way. ISBN 9780701131524.
• —— (1989). Where the Windrush Flows.
• —— (1990). Privies Galore.
• —— (1991). Wychwood: the secret Cotswold forest.