Helen Young (radio manager)
Helen Agnes Young was a New Zealand radio manager and an advocate for New Zealand music performers and composers.
Born in Hāwera on 22 March 1926, Young was the daughter of Agnes Isabel Young and Andrew Morton Young. She was educated at St Cuthbert's College, Auckland, and later went to London, where she studied at the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After working at the music library of the British Arts Council and the British Institute of Recorded Sound, she returned to New Zealand. She was manager of RNZ Concert for 12 years between 1978 and 1989, and worked for Radio New Zealand for 35 years in all. In the 1987 Queen's Birthday Honours, Young was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to broadcasting, and she received the award for "Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting" at the 1990 New Zealand Radio Awards.
Young died in Auckland on 2 August 2019.
