NCET In the early 1970s, Turner worked as general administrative assistant and "Information Director and Tape Librarian" at the [NCET] (National Center for Experiments in Television, a
KQED-TV project of the
San Francisco visual arts, funded by National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation), also "coordinating the authorship and publication of written materials concerning NCET." Turner was described as "sweet, beautiful, skillful, intelligent, insightful, and in our work situations, astoundingly dependable. She was an artistic sounding-board for me, and we worked very closely together on most of my more demanding projects – including being my primary support person throughout the production of the Videola exhibit", as eulogized by ex-boyfriend and NCET's then-resident video artist
Don Hallock, who also noted her as "a central element of NCET's success." of
Stephen Hill's weekly radio show
Hearts of Space (HOS). Turner also became the show's
co-host from 1974 and in January 1983 the show was
syndicated in the U.S. on
National Public Radio; as Hill memorialized, "More than anyone else, she was responsible for moving the program into national distribution, for Anna was a person with vision, always moving towards the next frontier." of Adagio Recordings. According to a fan timeline of the show, Turner's last show dual-narrated with Hill was program 109 "Departure" (October 1986) and her last show as narrator was program 118 "Dona Nobis Pacem" (December 1986). Her last co-production credit was for program 121 "Take It to Heart"; Turner co-produced 114 of the syndicated shows, being most programs from #1 (January 1983) to #121 (February 1987).
HOS Records In 1980, Hill and Turner decided to expand the radio program and started a mail order business to sell the albums played on the show; In 1984, Hill and Turner co-founded the show's record label,
Hearts of Space Records (later sold to
Valley Entertainment in 2001). Turner was a
record co-producer for some of its about 150 releases, such as
Constance Demby's best-selling
Novus Magnificat (1986). She also co-produced the New Age compilation
Polar Shift: A Benefit for Antarctica (1991, including Demby,
Yanni, and
Vangelis), released by
Picture Music.
Personal life Anna Turner was born in 1942. After her
Hearts of Space years, Turner lived up to her old radio pseudonym "Annamystic" when according to her friend Don Hallock, she "embarked on an intense journey of spiritual inquiry. She spent considerable time studying with
New Age inspirational speaker
Jach Pursel, who allegedly
channeled a "multidimensional entity" named Lazaris. "in her early 50s." The next month,
Hearts of Space broadcast a memorial to her with a rerun of program 91 re-titled the "Anna Turner Tribute" and introduced by Stephen Hill, who said that "this program captures a big part of Anna Turner's being: full of light, beauty, and vision, always reaching for the next frontier." ==Notes==