My mother, Jennifer Secombe, who has died aged 70, had a distinguished career in public relations. She was a natural communicator, leading her team in an office full of cake, laughter and press releases.
Working in Entertainment Publicity for
BBC television from 1985 until 2001, she was responsible for a huge range of output, including Dad’s Army, Only Fools and Horses, Birds of a Feather, Bread, Keeping Up Appearances, One Foot in the Grave, The Fast Show and Last of the Summer Wine. She launched the BBC iterations of The Comic Strip Presents … and Men Behaving Badly; shaped the profiles of numerous household names; and gave wise counsel to many producers and executives, among them Jim Moir, Robin Nash, Jon Plowman, Gareth Gwenlan and Geoffrey Perkins.