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Joy Worth

Radio Presenter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ17301018 ↗
Source-derived summary

Joy Worth (1910 – August 1987) was a British singer, radio presenter, and announcer, who was active during the 1940s and 1950s. Before a career on radio, she was a member of The Cavendish Three, a close harmony trio, from 1934 to 1939. Worth joined the BBC as an announcer in July 1942.

She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 17 Oct 1952. Worth died in August 1987 at the age of 77.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Joy Worth” as radio Presenter. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1910, 1987, 1934, 1939—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Worth, Radio and Presenter can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as radio Presenter. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17301018. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1910, 1987, 1934 and 1939.

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This entry incorporates text from “Joy Worth” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.