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Performance of text Elizabeth Ham
EH 's autobiography was published, nearly a century after her death, as Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, after excerpts had been read on BBC programmes and printed in The Listener.
Ham, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820, edited by Eric Gillett, Faber and Faber, pp. 5-12.
5
Performance of text Bryony Lavery
BL 's first radio play, No Joan of Arc, was broadcast by the BBC 's Radio Four.
“Bryony Lavery Radio Plays”. Diversity Website: Radio Plays: Writers.
Performance of text Sarah Waters
She carried out as much research as available sources permitted into lesbian lives in England of the 1940s, and spent four years working on this novel (as compared with one year for her first). She...
Performance of text Mary Stewart
One of MS 's four radio plays written this year (or this and the previous year), Lift from a Stranger, was broadcast on BBC radio.
Friedman, Lenemaja. Mary Stewart. Twayne Publishers.
127
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Performance of text Anne Devlin
AD 's teleplay Naming the Names first shown on BBC Two television channel; it was also broadcast on BBC Radio later this year.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
245
Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press.
95
Performance of text Michelene Wandor
MW 's first radio play, Correspondence, about a divorcee who becomes a student, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 .
Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
Other Life Event E. Arnot Robertson
On 27 September 1946 MGM complained to the BBC about an allegedly hostile review by EAR . This led her to a court battle. The High Court awarded her £1,500 in libel damages, but on...
Other Life Event Jean Rhys
An actress, Selma vas Diaz , had adapted Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight as a radio play and needed her permission to perform it for a BBC broadcast. A public performance had already been set for...
Occupation Storm Jameson
In her autobiography Jameson also briefly mentions compiling a report on women in munitions factories for the Ministry of Supply at this time. She spoke on the BBC at least once, in a radio address...
Occupation Barbara Pym
This work had an impact on her own writing, which continued to be her primary focus. Hazel Holt observes that she was a capable and conscientious editor but had no real interest in Africa as...
Occupation Mary Agnes Hamilton
MAH served as a Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation .
She writes first that notice of the appointment came in December 1932, but twice later that she served from 1 January 1932.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
280, 288, 295
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
280, 288, 295
Occupation Viola Meynell
VM was invited to host a series of BBC radio broadcasts on literary figures.
MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen.
311 and n36, 312-13
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 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 Irene Handl
She was still working in the last year of her life, when she played another spiritualist medium role in Never Say Day, which was shown on BBC Channel Four.

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