Christobel Weerasinghe

Christobel Weerasinghe née Kotalawala born in the 1920's into a Sri Lanka family of wealth, diplomats and political power. It was the beginning of the 1920s and the life she inherited was one of extraordinary privilege – her family could trace their genealogy back to the kings of Kotte and in the present her father, Sir Henry Kotalawala had broken all records with 26 consecutive years as a member of the Legislative and State Council. She made 6 long playing records about the music and people of India, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, Israel and the Arab world. Though UNICEF and UNESCO provided her with the material, it was she who wrote and then narrated the scripts. (All royalties from the sales and any honorariums she received were donated to UNICEF.) Another series of recordings, dubbed ‘Tales from the East, re-written for Children’ was broadcast over New York and Washington networks and her ‘Portraits of Ceylon’ aired over 44 stations and was used by the Jamaican Broadcasting Corporation and the Trinidad Broadcasting Corporation. Known to have worked with Wonderland Series, Desto