Nancy Brooker Spain was a prominent English broadcaster and journalist. She was a columnist for the *Daily Express*, *She* magazine, and the *News of the World* in the 1950s and 1960s. She also appeared on many radio broadcasts, particularly on *Woman's Hour* and *My Word!*, and later as a panelist on the television programmes *What's My Line?* and *Juke Box Jury*. Spain died in a plane crash near Aintree racecourse while travelling to the 1964 Grand National.