Mollie Lee

Mollie Kate Emily Carpenter Lee (née Hales) was a BBC Radio presenter, known for her appearances on Woman's Hour, and novelist, under the names Mollie Hales and Mollie Carpenter Hales.

Life Mollie Hales was from Kent. She studied journalism at University of London and Russian at the School of Slavonic Studies. While working for Woman's Hour, she was able to visit Russia for the first time.

Lee edited a series of BBC books featuring items from Woman's Hour.

She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 25 September 1971.

She was married, with one daughter.