Helen Dymond’s fascination with Handel started in the 1980s when she sang in the Handel Opera Chorus. In 1985 she supplied the research for the Channel 4 film Honour, Profit and Pleasure starring Simon Callow; and her “Handel-Lovers’ Chorus”, a comic version of the Hallelujah Chorus, was published and is still in print. In 2005 scenes from her play Handel and Susannah were performed in London, followed by her play Handel’s Feast in 2009. For forty years she was mainly occupied in teaching English and lecturing in Humanities; her final post was at the City Lit, London, teaching on Handel’s Operas and Oratorios and The Psychology of Religion.