Lynne Cooper Harvey

Lynne "Angel" (née Cooper) Harvey (October 4, 1916 – May 3, 2008) was an American radio producer. She was producer for The Rest of the Story, and the first producer to enter the National Radio Hall of Fame. Dubbed the "First Lady of Radio," Harvey had a transformative sixty-year career, changing American radio and television news format.

Early life and career Harvey was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a BA and MA in English. Harvey was a member of Phi Beta Kappa at Washington University and was a former schoolteacher. In 1939, she went to work for KXOK. There she met her future husband Paul Harvey. Paul Harvey invited her to dinner, proposed to her after a few minutes of conversation and from then on called her "Angel," even on his radio show. The two were married in 1940, The couple moved to Chicago in 1945.

In 1997, Lynne Harvey was the first producer ever inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame, and had developed some of her husband's best-known features, such as "The Rest of the Story." She worked in television also, and created a television show called Dilemma which is acknowledged as the prototype of the modern talk show genre. While working at CBS, she was among the first women to produce an entire newscast. In later years, she was best known as a philanthropist.

Later life and death On May 17, 2007, Harvey told his radio audience that Angel had contracted leukemia. Her death, at the age of 91, was announced by ABC radio on May 3, 2008.