Anna Turner (HOS)

Anna Turner
Anna Turner in 1973 at NCET
Background information
Birth name	Ann Elizabeth McRoskey
Also known as	Annamystic
Born	(1942-12-08)December 8, 1942 San Mateo County, California, U.S.
Origin	San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died	August 27, 1996(1996-08-27) (aged 53) Marin County, California, U.S.
Genres	New-age, space, ambient
Occupation(s)	radio producer, radio host, record producer
Years active	1973–1990s
Labels	Hearts of Space Records

Anna Turner (December 8, 1942 – August 27, 1996) was an American producer and administrator. Turner is best known as the original partner of Stephen Hill for launching the space music radio show Hearts of Space: she was its original radio co-producer (1973–1987) and early co-host (1974–1986), as well as co-founder and record co-producer (1984–1990s) of the associated label Hearts of Space Records.

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."

In 1973, Turner was the original radio co-producer of Stephen Hill's weekly radio show Hearts of Space (HOS). Turner also became the show's co-host from 1974 to 1986, originally under the on-air pseudonym of "Annamystic" (sometimes rendered "Anna Mystic"). In 1980, Hill and Turner "began to lay the groundwork for national syndication" 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."