So began a lifelong love-affair with Radio. Love in another form also, came at this time. Through some of the same RE friends, she was to meet the keyboard-player and London-born Irishman John O’Sullivan. For their first formal date, she remembered he hired a car. Carey Kent, or more to the point – Oenone Venetia Carew was impressed. They were married in 1957 After this time Venetia ‘ O Sullivan’ became known as a name below programme notes for orchestral concerts in the Saint Francis Xavier Hall, and for the subscription series in the Gaiety Theatre. Her broadcasting gradually gave way to concert-programme writing and the writing of scripts for announcements in ‘live’ or recorded concerts and recitals. Each week she might have five or six of these to supply, and she was still writing programme notes and notes for the Radio Review. And she had become a mother. Radio announcers remember her from this time, hair grown longer, tied-back, the handsome face un-madeup, bright eyed, exuberant, but possibly slightly harassed, very casually dressed(usually the black pants, black top) : with John, maybe, and one or all of their three children ( Rowan, Kilda and Marney) on a Saturday afternoon – in the record library in the GPO searching out recordings of works that were to be played in the coming weeks in concert or recital. She would then take the records home, listen to each of them and write, basing her words on her own impressions of each piece – no recourse to Grove’s Dictionary unless as reference, nor to record-sleeves ; no Google then......... just the judgement, good taste and discernment of Venetia O Sullivan. Her scripts were formal... ‘ We come now to a recital of music by ...’ maybe the content over-analytical by today’s taste ; but nothing was omitted that should be said, and there was always a sense that what was to follow was worth one’s attention. ( If it wasn’t , VOS would let you decide for yourself - script appropriately, if alarmingly, brief).