 She trained as a junior school teacher, undertaking practice at a Church of England school at Headingley, but due to a hiring freeze in Leeds went to work for the BBC alongside her husband, Jonathan Margolis, now an author and journalist with the "Financial Times", whom she married in 1976.Having been appointed the programme's Yorkshire correspondent, Margolis worked on "Woman's Hour" until the 1990s, following which she produced "Neurotica" and continued her writing career.She died of lung cancer, aged 62, and was survived by her husband, their three children, and grandchildren.