Pioneering Australian kids presenter Dawn Kenyon, known as the 'first lady of children's television' in the country, died earlier this week at 92.
READ MORE:Pioneering Australia n kids presenter Dawn Kenyon, known as the 'first lady of children's television' in the country, died earlier this week at 92.
Kenyon also presented the early Channel Seven kids learning show Romper Room in the late fifties, several years before the similarly themed Play School premiered on the ABC in 1966. The beloved personality became Australia's first female host on a children's show, when she presented the kid's variety show Captain Fortune in 1956, the same year TV came to the country. She also presented Romper Room, which was a precursor to the ABC's Play School
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