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Textual Production Diana Athill
DA 's contributions to various periodicals sometimes enlarge on Stet in describing famous writers and her publishing relationships with them. In 2000 she wrote for the TLS on Jean Rhys and for Granta on V. S. Naipaul
Textual Production Sarah Daniels
Over the course of her career SD has become much involved in radio drama. From once believing that only sad bastards listen to BBC Radio 4 , she has progressed to becoming a regular contributor...
Textual Production E. M. Forster
In 2008 two separate collections appeared of uncollected essays and broadcasts by Forster: The BBC Talks of E. M. Forster, 1929-60: A Selected Edition, edited by Mary Lago and others, and The Creator as...
Textual Production Hilary Mantel
Within not much more than a year of publication this novel had sold more than 65,000 copies, overturning its author's feeling of having always been a very modest seller.
Taylor, Debbie. “Hilary Mantel”. Mslexia, No. 30, pp. 46-8.
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Of a proposed BBC adaptation...
Textual Production Malorie Blackman
Hacker was dramatized for BBC radio .
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Shelagh Delaney
SD wrote several television scripts in the 1970s and early 1980s. The first was Did Your Nanny Come from Bergen? for the BBC in 1970.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production E. Arnot Robertson
EAR published stories in The Passing Show and Lilliput (from which one, Peace Comes to a Ministry, was selected by Kaye Webb for inclusion in the anthology Lilliput Goes to War, 1985). Over...
Textual Production Frances Hodgson Burnett
This was re-issued by Persephone Books in 2001 (together with, in the same volume, its sequel, The Methods of Lady Walderhurst). It was subsequently broadcast as a BBC Radio Four classic serial.
Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/.
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.
Textual Production Susan Hill
SH had already broadcast ten plays by the time the BBC published The Cold Country, and Other Plays for Radio, a collection of five of these pieces.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1976
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
Following a silent film of 1928 entitled The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (from the novel of the same title, 1922), Orczy and Julia Neilson gave permission for the filming of the work by London Film Productions
Textual Production Kate Clanchy
BBC Radio 3 broadcast readings and discussion by KC and working-class poet Paul Farley of poems by Philip Larkin based on train travel around Larkinland and conversation with some of its denizens.
“Children of the Whitsun Weddings”. BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature.
Textual Production Naomi Jacob
NJ made an additional career as a public lecturer; without any specialist expertise, she could express confident and articulate opinions on a wide range of topics. She was a regular and outspoken contributor to the...
Textual Production Harold Pinter
Pinter began this work as a radio play. The BBC archives hold a scene-by-scene plan he made for it, plus statements about overall themes and purpose. This plan was rejected in November 1958, but later...
Textual Production Muriel Spark
An Author's Note says that both stories and plays were written on the same creative wavelength,
Spark, Muriel. Voices At Play. Penguin.
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whether addressing the inner or outer ear. Rayner Heppenstall of the BBCThird Programme suggested that MS should...
Textual Production Sarah Daniels
SD considered she had never enjoyed anything so much as collaborative work on the BBC World Service radio soap Westway (in work broadcast in November 1997).
Bull, John, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 245. Gale Research.
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This involved six writers driving the producers mad...

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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