Then came the era when Venetia collaborated in her radio work. This was from the late 1960s until her retirement ( as one of the longest-serving radio people) in the late 1990s. With the producer Jane Carty and presenter and friend Una Sheehy (and later Lorna Madigan, then myself) she compiled and scripted a weekly Music Magazine – which in 1979 gathered its material at the Salzburg, Bayreuth and Lucerne festivals. But annually the team went to Wexford Opera, and around Ireland to wherever music was generating some kind of real local interest. In the early 1980s she completed the radio-producer training course, and when I returned from a two-year world trip in 1982 she asked me to present a travel diary in such a way that she could compile a programme where music complemented word. This series – A Traveller’s Tunes’- won us a Jacobs’ Award. And it was to be a format Venetia would develop in such series as ‘Music Then and There’, ‘Opera Matters’ , ‘And Music Too’ , and in a series which won for herself alone another Jacobs’ Award. This series was ‘In Nature’s Realm’ - where music enhanced an expert’s description of vital, curious, or any way engaging aspects of the physical world. A ‘very’ Venetia enterprise – her belief in the expressive powers of music allied to her passionate (sometimes despairing) concern for our world and universe. She was an ardent traveller, in fact, and in the armchair. Her favourite books, alongside the detective novels she raced through, were by travel writers who went deepest and farthest throughout the planet, farther than work and family commitments ever allowed herself to do. But whenever she did manage to travel, she shared the experience. To get one of her wonderful tightly written but quite legible postcards was a great pleasure, and ample evidence that she herself could have been travel-writer par excellence, if fate had so ordained.