Elizabeth Cowell was a British broadcaster.

She was one of the first three BBC Television Service

BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...

 presenters, along with Jasmine Bligh

Jasmine Bligh

Jasmine Lydia Bligh was one of the first three BBC Television Service presenters in the 1930s, along with Leslie Mitchell and Elizabeth Cowell, providing continuity announcements and introducing programmes in-vision....

 and Leslie Mitchell

Leslie Mitchell (broadcaster)

Leslie Mitchell , was famous in the United Kingdom as the first voice heard on BBC Television at its inception on 2 November 1936, and also for making the first announcement on Associated-Rediffusion, the first ITV company, on 22 September 1955...

. She began announcing when the Television Service started in 1936, and returned in 1946 after its nearly seven-year hiatus due to the Second World War. Cowell was the voice of 'the Woman' on the soundtrack of Paul Rotha

Paul Rotha

Paul Rotha was a British documentary film-maker, film historian and critic. He was educated at Highgate School....

's documentary Land of Promise (1946).