Its odd to think that to the under 40s, Magenta Devine is not a household name, immediately conjuring up in the minds eye a pair of shades and a designer outfit. To uncharitable types, that description might signify that she was an insubstantial figure, part of a generation of TV presenters whose contribution to the medium was frivolous and fashion-fixated and who therefore deserved to be be blown away, like superfluous tinfoil wrapping, into permanent obscurity. Sadly, Devine did suffer from depression having departed the limelight and was declared bankrupt in 2003. That, however, was a deeply unfair fate.
Devine was a pioneering figure in a new approach to cultural and current affairs programme-making that brought the graphic language…
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