Carol Chell


Carol Chell is a British children's television presenter and TV executive. She originally qualified as a teacher, and produced many educational TV shows in the 1960s. She is best known for her work as a long-serving presenter from 1966 to 1988 on Play School and from 1971 to 1980 on Play Away.

Early life

She attended Nottingham Girls' High School, then a direct grant grammar school.

Career

Teacher

For a time she taught at Pierrepont Secondary Modern School for Girls, in Nottingham; also teaching there at the time was Brian Clark, who would become a television writer, writing Telford's Change.

Television

Chell appeared as herself as part of a group of 'time-travellers' trying to solve puzzles on the planet Arg in episode 1 of series 2 of BBC TV quiz series The Adventure Game on 2 November 1981. She took part in the ATV schools series Starting Out in 1982. She later worked for satellite TV station The Children's Channel, where she was head of pre-school programming until the channel's demise in 1998.
Chell appeared alongside Johnny Ball on a celebrity edition of Pointless, featuring stars of children's television. This aired on 20 September 2014 on BBC One.

Personal life

She married Ian Price on Saturday 9 October 1965 at St Peter's Church in Tollerton, Nottinghamshire. At the time, her parents lived in Christchurch, Dorset. Chell and Price had a daughter, Emily, who was born in 1968.