Marjorie Wallace CBE is an award-winning investigative journalist, author and broadcaster and is chief executive of SANE, the leading mental health charity which she founded following her series of articles in The Times, ‘The Forgotten Illness’.

In the 60s Marjorie worked on The Frost Programme, then at London Weekend Television before joining the BBC where she became a reporter and film director for the current affairs programmes Nationwide and Midweek. 

In 2006 she was selected as one of the 16 key achievers who had made a difference to the health of the nation for an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery and was later chosen as one of the 60 most influential people alongside Aneurin Bevan and William Beveridge in shaping the history of the National Health Service.

She also wrote the book and original screenplay On Giant’s Shoulders – the story of a family who adopted a Thalidomide child (International Emmy 1979). Other investigations ranged from the failure of concrete systems- building and the ‘hot-housing’ of genius children to the Dioxin disaster in Northern Italy about which she co-wrote the book Superpoison. She has won numerous awards for her journalism and books including Campaigning Journalist of the Year (twice), Medical Journalist of the Year and the Snowdon Special Award for her ‘enlightened enthusiasm, sympathetic understanding and caring concerns’.

Marjorie is probably best known for her book The Silent Twins and the film made from her screenplay (best docudrama USA 1988). She wrote and presented several provocative television documentaries – Whose Mind is it Anyway? and Circles of Madness – and has gained a reputation as an international lecturer and broadcaster. 

In 1997 she was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists ‘in recognition of her outstanding service to Psychiatry’.