Andrea Wonfor

Career In 1966, after her graduation from Cambridge University, Wonfor became a trainee at Granada Television with the future director-general of the BBC, John Birt, as a fellow new recruit. Three years later, she joined Tyne Tees Television as a researcher and a director. By 1976, she was their head of children's and young people's programmes.

In 1982, with producer Malcolm Gerrie and her second husband, Wonfor created The Tube, a live music programme broadcast from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The programme attracted high ratings for the then new Channel 4. The programme launched many careers of people from the North-East including Ant & Dec, Jill Halfpenny and Donna Air.

She served on the Board of Governors of the British Film Institute in the 1990s.

Death Wonfor died in Ingoe, Northumberland, in 2004 from a recurrence of breast cancer that she had overcome in 1996.