“In 1991, as a film student, I was offered £50 by a German women’s collective to shoot Muriel Box. But when the documentary director and I arrived at her home we were told that she was too ill to see us. She died a few months later aged 85. While I regret never meeting her, I’m also relieved. How terrible to have shown even a glimpse of my full ignorance of her achievements, a pioneering film-maker who had fought her way through an industry hostile to women to make a major contribution to cinema…”

Read Carol Morley’s full article on Muriel Box for The Guardian.

On Sunday 26 February, 6:45pm UK time, Carol Morley presents on the BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature her cinematic journey of discovery in the programme Carol and Muriel.

Photograph of Muriel Box: Alamy.