During the 1980s, Skeaping worked as a children's television presenter for BBC programmes including Play School, The Music Arcade for BBC Schools (alongside Tim Whitnall), Take Two, Get Set For Summer, and, for Channel 4, the long-running 'Make Music Fun'. As a member of the Michael Nyman Band, she appeared in Peter Greenaway's 1980 mock documentary The Falls, as subject #74, Pollie Fallory, and in Gavin Bryars' Irma. After several years performing with the proto-feminist band the Sadista Sisters, she returned to early music working with the City Waites, the Consort of Musicke, the Martin Best Ensemble and the English Consort of Viols before forming her own band the Burning Bush in order to explore her own Jewish roots.
