Anne Wood

Anne Wood CBE (born December 1937) is a British children’s television producer. She was born in Spennymoor, County Durham, England and grew up in Tudhoe Colliery, a small coalmining village nearby. She qualified as a secondary school teacher through Bingley Training College in Yorkshire and took up her first teaching post back home in Spennymoor. She married Barrie Wood in 1959 and moved to Surbiton in Surrey where she took up a teaching role at Hollyfield Road Secondary School. This was the era of the first children’s paperback book and Anne became an early pioneer of a children’s paperback book club scheme for schools set up by Scholastic Publications. She retired from teaching on the birth of a daughter and was taken on by Scholastic...