Career
In 1961 she married David Harter, a barrister, and began raising three sons, Joe, Paul, and Rick, in Islington, North London, where she lives.
It was while raising a family in 1960s and ’70s that Churchill began to write short radio dramas and then television plays for BBC radio including The Ants (1962), Not, Not, Not, Not Enough Oxygen (1971), and Schreber's Nervous Illness (1972). She also wrote television plays for the BBC, including The After Dinner Joke (1978) and Crimes (1982). These, as well as some of her radio plays, have been adapted for the stage.
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