“William; Just William”. BBC: Guide to Comedy.
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Performance of text | Ruth Padel | RP
has broadcast programmes of her own on BBC Radio 3
and Radio 4
about the work of composers, scientists, and writers. She chose the title Close Encounters for a series of interval talks about... |
Performance of text | Richmal Crompton | The BBC
filmed a play entitled Just William for television. The play was based on RC
's William books, and was then playing at the Granville Theatre
in Fulham. |
Performance of text | Ruth Pitter | |
Performance of text | Lilian Bowes Lyon | |
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | |
Performance of text | Ruth Padel | The earliest stories that RP
mentions on her website are two that appeared in journals in 2001: Tigersex in the Dublin Review in May and The Last Tiger in Prospect Magazine in September. We're So... |
Performance of text | Daisy Ashford | In July 1919, DA
did a reading of a chapter of the book at a private party, which went better than anticipated, despite her nerves. She was offered an opportunity to do a lecture tour... |
Performance of text | Philip Larkin | Still struggling, PL
published in 1954 an untitled leaflet of poems with the Fantasy Press
of Eynsham in Oxfordshire (number 21 of their Fantasy Poets). His poems were also by this time being read... |
Performance of text | Dylan Thomas | Many of these pieces had been first broadcast on BBC
radio, not including the furiously satirical How To Be a Poet but including a warm tribute to an actual poet, Wilfred Owen
. Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ . 4 November 2008 |
Performance of text | Naomi Royde-Smith | A debate between NRS
and Compton Mackenzie
was held under the auspices of the Drama League
, and broadcast live on BBC
radio. Royde-Smith maintained that The Broadcast Play is an unsatisfactory Form of Art... |
Performance of text | Margiad Evans | |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Jennings | The Leamington Poetry Society
published a 4-page leaflet (plus cover) of EJ
's poems, titled with her name, in March 1987. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Performance of text | Sylvia Plath | |
Performance of text | Iris Murdoch | |
Performance of text | Margiad Evans | After this ME
worked on a never-completed novel called The Widower's Tale, set in a forest community on the English side of the Welsh border in the later nineteenth century. She received an advance... |
Timeline
May 2009: The BBC aimed to demonstrate that poetry...
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May 2009
The BBC
aimed to demonstrate that poetry is for everyone in a series launched this month: it succeeded in that sales of poetry soared in Britain.
Late October 2009: The BBC first opened to the public its sound...
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Late October 2009
The BBC
first opened to the public its sound archive entitled Suffragette Voices.
6 October 2010: A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes,...
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6 October 2010
A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes
, Last Letter, became available to the public when it was read on the BBC
's Channel 4 News by Jonathan Pryce
.
Kennedy, Maev. “Unknown poem reveals Ted Hughes’ torment over death of Sylvia Plath”. The Guardian.
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