Elizabeth Gray

Elizabeth Gray ( Binks; April 26, 1937 – October 25, 2023) was a Canadian radio broadcaster who served as a host and documentary producer for CBC Radio. Life and career Born in Toronto, her parents were George Binks, of Lachine, Québec, and Enid Watts Binks, of Letterston, Wales. Elizabeth graduated from Havergal College and studied English at the University of Toronto. Her journalistic work started there, at the student newspaper, The Varsity, then edited by Peter Gzowski, where she also met fellow reporter John Gray, whom she married shortly after they graduated. She worked at the Toronto Telegram (and he at the Toronto Daily Star) for several months, and then they moved to London, England, where they lived for five years, and she freelanced for the CBC. They returned to Canada in 1965, Based in Montreal, she contributed to the CBC, most frequently to the phone-in radio program, Cross-Country Checkup. She later hosted the weekly broadcast, from 1976 to 1978. Relocating to Ottawa in 1969, she continued to contribute freelance to local CBC radio broadcasts and to national programs, including Morningside, The House, and As It Happens. Gray took over from Barbara Frum as cohost of As It Happens in 1981. In a controversial decision by the show's producers, in 1985 she was replaced by Dennis Trudeau. She subsequently produced for Sunday Morning and made audio documentaries for the CBC until her retirement, as she approached age 70. More recently, with different producers in charge of As It Happens, Gray returned to the program as an occasional guest host.