MacRae, Olwynne

In 1948 she joined the BBC and worked on the first Scotland Yard series. After moving to New Zealand in 1967 she became TV2's first drama script editor, and later she wrote one of the Ngalo Marsh quartet of television plays. Ms Macrae has written 15 radio plays, some of which have been sold to Austraila, Britain, Germany and Switzerland. There is a market overseas for New Zealand drama. In 1979 her play No Moon, No Sun was placed second in a BBC worldwide competition.