Daphne Shadwell obituary (opens in new tab)

Pioneering programme-maker and director who provided the title for the live TV pop show Ready Steady Go! in the 1960sReady Steady Go! captured the mood of the Swinging 60s when it was launched as a live ITV pop show on Friday evenings in 1963 with the catchphrase “The weekend starts here!”. The show’s title came from Daphne Shadwell, one of its studio directors and a pioneering programme-maker in those early days of commercial television. “Most TV directors counted down ‘ten, nine, eight etc’...