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Occupation | Maureen Duffy | She also participated in debates in the 1950s and 1960s on homosexual law reform in Britain. At the time when the 1967 Sexual Offences Act became law, she discussed the BBC
2 television documentary... |
Occupation | Jean Binta Breeze | After appearing on the BBC
programme New Voices in 1988, Breeze became involved with the British film, television, and theatre industries. In the 1990s alone, she contributed to television programmes, wrote two plays, and wrote... |
Occupation | Caryl Churchill | While CC
was attending Oxford University, a student production of one of her plays brought her into contact with an agent, Margaret Ramsay
, who encouraged her to write for radio. From 1962 to the... |
Occupation | E. Arnot Robertson | During the Second World War, EAR
worked as a government adviser on films. After the war she returned to reviewing films on radio. She was a broadcaster of note, particularly as a panellist on The... |
Occupation | Selima Hill | SH
ran adventure playgrounds, an Adult Education Centre creche, and a children's rights workshop. She worked for the National Childbirth Trust
, and also spent some time working in bookshops. In 1991, she held a... |
Occupation | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Meanwhile she prepared to receive evacuees from London, and volunteered for first aid work, nursing, and night shifts with the ARP (Air Raid Precaution)
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Occupation | Clemence Dane | By then she had appeared on a couple of the BBC
's Brains Trust series. Dane, Clemence. London Has a Garden. Michael Joseph. 58 |
Occupation | Jan Struther | Her broadcasting career did not end with the war, but continued sporadically in the USA and even occasionally in England with the BBC
. Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray. 265 |
Occupation | Rumer Godden | |
Occupation | George Orwell | |
Occupation | Ruth Padel | In 2007 she sat on the panel judging the Eric Gregory awards for new writing. In 2008 she became the first writer in residence at Somerset House
and the first poet in residence for the... |
Occupation | Una Marson | UM
became a full-time programme assistant on the BBC
's Empire Service from London, for which she managed the programme Calling the West Indies. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press. 149 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Germaine Greer | |
Occupation | P. D. James | She retired to become a full-time writer at the end of 1979, six months before her sixtieth birthday. Then she served as a magistrate for Willesden (1979-82) and for Inner London (1984). She has been... |
Occupation | Freya Stark | After an August 1933 massacre of Assyrian civilians by the Iraqi Army, FS
was in demand as an authority on Iraq. She spoke at the BBC
, the Forum
, and the Royal Central Asia Society |
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