Poetic Obituaries: [Stella Hillier] often said that some

of the best radio programmes were devised while propping up the bar in The Stag or in The George, just around the corner in Great Portland Street.

Her down-to-earth realism was useful in dealing with Dylan Thomas, who was commissioned to write several scripts for Features but often missed his deadlines. The writing of Under Milk Wood--which had its first full airing in Douglas Cleverdon's production on the Third Programme in 1954, a few months after Thomas's death--was completed in Stella Hillier's outer office, after she had winkled him out of The Stag.

from Telegraph: Stella Hillier

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