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Textual Production Sarah Daniels
The Sound Barrier by SD , broadcast on Radio 4 in 2004 and repeated in 2007, was directed by Sally Avens . Daniels had at first planned to call it The Long Silence. Her...
Textual Production Mary Wesley
It appeared exactly a year after she had finished the first draft (working title Period Piece) and put away the manuscript (written in ink on paper of A4 size, with lines but without margins)...
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 Enid Blyton
EB was interviewed by Marjorie Anderson for the BBC Home Service , a programme later re-broadcast on BBC Woman's Hour.
“BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4.
Textual Production Anne Devlin
AD 's television play The Long March was shown on BBC One .
Devlin, Anne. Ourselves Alone. Faber and Faber.
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Cerquoni, Enrica. “In Conversation with Anne Devlin”. Theatre Talk: Voices of Irish Theatre Practitioners, edited by Lilian Chambers et al., Carysfort Press, pp. 107-23.
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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 Helen Dunmore
This was the first of HD 's novels to be published in the United States (in 1997). In 2001, HD participated in a discussion of the work on BBC 's Book Club show.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Textual Production Joan Aiken
As the title indicates, JA recast this in book from pieces given on the popular BBC children's television programme Jackanory. The book was the first of a successful series.
Eccleshare, Julia. “Joan Aiken”. The Guardian Unlimited, p. 25.
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Textual Production Eleanor Farjeon
One spur to this late work was Farjeon's indignation at a BBC radio programme in 1953 about Thomas, which was repeated despite her protest after the first broadcast. The programme maintained that she had been...
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
This publication was one of a group of four: the others are by Zoë Fairbairns , Valerie Miner , and Victoria Nelson . Three of Wandor's stories are revised from versions which appeared in Guests...
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 Jane Gardam
The title story was adapted for BBC television in 1982.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
(23 April 1982): 460
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Textual Production Jackie Kay
JK wrote Twice Through the Heart, a poetry documentary for BBC 2 based on the life of Amelia Rossiter , a woman jailed for killing her abusive husband.
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Kay, Jackie. Other Lovers. Bloodaxe Books.
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Textual Production Josephine Tey
Gordon Daviot (also known as JT ) published a volume of eight one-act plays (of which all but one had been broadcast on BBC Radio during the Second World War), Leith Sands, and Other Short Plays.
Henderson, Jennifer Morag. Josephine Tey, a life. Sandstone Press.
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Roy, Sandra. Josephine Tey. Twayne.
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Timeline

16 January 1929: The Listener began publication; it has been...

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16 January 1929

The Listener began publication; it has been said that it did more for the new 'thirties poetry in Britain than any of the specialized poetry magazines.

July 1929: J. B. Priestley published his novel The Good...

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July 1929

J. B. Priestley published his novelThe Good Companions, which became a best-seller and made his name.

21 January 1930: King George V's speech from the House of...

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21 January 1930

King George V 's speech from the House of Lords opening the London Naval Conference was broadcast by the BBC to several countries around the world.

May 1930: Factory-produced television sets (the Baird...

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May 1930

Factory-produced television sets (the Bairdtelevisor) went on sale for 25 guineas in the UK.

14 July 1930: The first televised play was broadcast by...

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14 July 1930

The first televised play was broadcast by the BBC : Lance Sieveking and Sydney Moseley 's production of Pirandello 's experimental The Man with the Flower in his Mouth.

4 December 1931: The BBC announced the resignation of Hilda...

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4 December 1931

The BBC announced the resignation of Hilda Matheson , its director of talks, which she had actually submitted in October. This was the climax of a long-running struggle over a series of talks by Harold Nicolson

1932: The BBC adopted a policy restricting their...

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1932

The BBC adopted a policy restricting their employment of married women.

2 May 1932: Broadcasting House at Portland Place, London,...

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2 May 1932

Broadcasting House at Portland Place, London, opened as home of the British Broadcasting Corporation .

19 December 1932: The BBC launched the Empire Service; this...

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19 December 1932

The BBC launched the Empire Service; this developed into the World Service , broadcasting around the world.

28 July 1933: Sheila Borrett became the BBC's first female...

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28 July 1933

Sheila Borrett became the BBC 's first female radio announcer.

21 August 1933: The BBC news was first read by a woman announcer;...

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21 August 1933

The BBC news was first read by a woman announcer; the practice was soon discontinued.

29 November 1934: BBC radio presented its first broadcast of...

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29 November 1934

BBC radio presented its first broadcast of a royal wedding ceremony (the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina ) from Westminster Abbey.

20 January 1936: King George V died and Edward VIII assumed...

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20 January 1936

King George V died and Edward VIII assumed the throne; he broadcast a message to the Empire the same day from the BBC 's headquarters, Broadcasting House.

31 August 1936: Elizabeth Cowell became the BBC's first female...

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31 August 1936

Elizabeth Cowell became the BBC 's first female television announcer.

2 November 1936: The BBC began the world's first regular public...

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2 November 1936

The BBC began the world's first regular public television service from Alexandra Palace in London.

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