FreddyHeadey wrote: [Audrey Coppard was] Crick’s secretary when he was professor of politics at Birkbeck, had jointly written a book on Orwell with him...

What I called the "small and curious collection of books" were written in the '70s and are (all?) non-fiction for youngsters. 'Nancy of Nottingham' is about the Luddites and the effects of early industrialisatiion on traditional 'stockingers'. 'Who has Poisoned our Sea' seems to have sold well and was translated into several languages. I am rather intrigued by 'Sending Secrets, an Introduction to Codes'. (I can't find a secondhand copy of that.)

But is this the same person who sang on that record?

The Arena Orwell documentary, broadcast in 1984, is on YouTube BTW.