She was one of a small number of women executives in the BBC during the 1950s and 1960s.
English Heritage says the very first televised election broadcast "was almost entirely Grace Wyndham Goldie's concept"
The plaque is being unveiled at St Mary Abbot's Court in Kensington, where she lived for more than 50 years. Ms Goldie started working for the corporation in 1935 as a radio drama and entertainment critic for their weekly magazine The Listener, and remained involved after her retirement in 1965, making recommendations on BBC archiving policy.Ms Turness said Ms Goldie "was a true pioneer - not only as a woman in a male-dominated industry, but as someone who quickly recognised the potential of a radical new technology: television".
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