- Britain's first ever entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest, in 1957 with 'All'. She finished 7th out of ten entries with the shortest ever song (clocking in at 112 seconds).
- Bredin married Canadian businessman Charles MacCulloch, but he died on their honeymoon.
- She landed the Eurovision chance following a short meeting with BBC executives, who asked her, "Would you like to be on TV?".
- Bredin took the part of Molly, the island girl, in the original cast of the musical Free as Air in 1957.
- Her singing career began as a member of the Hull Operatic Society, performing in shows at the City Hall and other venues.
- She took part in the 1957 contest in Frankfurt and finished in seventh place out of ten entries with the song "All", the first-ever song sung in English at Eurovision. At 1:52, "All" was for a long time the shortest performance in the history of the contest. The record was broken in 2015 when Finland's Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät performed "Aina mun pitää", which was only 1:27 long.
- Reflecting on her Eurovision appearance in a BBC interview, she said: "Two songs had been chosen and each one had to be sung by two different performers, but they had a problem because nobody wanted to sing that terrible little song called All.".
- As Patricia Bredin-McCulloch, she built up a herd of cows on their estate and looked after them for nearly ten years, before financial complications brought her cattle breeding to an end. She published some reminiscences about this period of her life in My Fling on the Farm (1989).
- In 1959, she starred in the British comedy film Left Right and Centre with Ian Carmichael. This saw British exhibitors vote her one of the most promising British new stars along with Peter Sellers and Hayley Mills.
- Bredin succeeded Julie Andrews as Guenevere in the Broadway production of Camelot. She played the role from 16 April 1962 until she was replaced by Janet Pavek three months later.
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