William Joyce Dorothy Eckersley got him an audition at the Rundfunkhaus (""broadcasting house""). Eckersley was the former wife or second wife of the Chief Engineer of the British Broadcasting Corporation, Peter Eckersley. Despite having a heavy cold and almost losing his voice, he was recruited immediately for radio announcements and scriptwriting at German radio's English service. William Joyce replaced Wolf Mittler. The name "Lord Haw-Haw of Zeesen" was coined in 1939 by the pseudonymous "Daily Express" radio critic Jonah Barrington, but this referred initially to Wolf Mittler (or possibly Norman Baillie-Stewart). When Joyce became the best-known propaganda broadcaster, the nickname was transferred
Joyce Jeffreys and profiting from the interest. Women who were moneylenders like Joyce often had legacies, which they could use to invest. The diary, extracts from which are printed in "Archaeologia" (1857, xxxvii, 189–223), was burnt in the fire which destroyed the Winnington library at Sanford Court, Stanford on Teme. There is a modern edition of the diary: Joyce Jeffreys Joyce Jeffreys (Jeffries) (c. 1570 – 1650) was a single female moneylender in seventeenth-century England. She lived most of her adult life in Hereford, England although she moved around to stay with family due to the English Civil Wars. An account book