ABSTRACT
Margery Fry was therefore assiduous in seeking publicity for the cause not only in the press but also in the new broadcast medium of radio from its inception in the 1920s. Public meetings reached potential supporters not only in person but through press reports. These, together with Margery's published letters, ensured that by the mid-1920s she was already known to readers of the quality press and strongly identified with the cause of penal reform. The subjects of Margery’s 1934 broadcasts suggest that her access to the airwaves remained somewhat contingent on her expertise in penal reform and education. Margery's broadcasts in the 1940s and 1950s continued to draw on her strengths and interests as an educator and a feminist, specifically her expertise in social questions and penal reform, and on the wide experience of the world she had gained through travel. The popular press also reported on Margery's activities from time to time.
