Mildred Clary (7 February 1931 – 19 November 2010) was a French radio and television producer and music writer. Born Mildred Kennard in Paris, she was the daughter of the guitarist Deric Kennard. She began her career on guitar and later lute, playing incidental music in the pit of the Old Vic Theatre in London. She decided to leave England and settle in France. Jean Vilar and Jean-Louis Barrault both hired her. In 1955 she became a radio producer, for French radio and later France Culture and France Musique.

On lute she made recordings of early music in the 1950s and 1960s, solo or with singers. In 1956 she recorded Manuel de Falla’s Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy. She produced many radio series, among them Musica britannica. On television she produced Opus for Arte, from 1989 to 1996. Her books include George Gershwin – Une rhapsodie américaine (2005) and Benjamin Britten ou le mythe de l’enfance (2006). In 1988 she received the Grand Prix de la radio.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Clary
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3314028