British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
BBC
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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. Kay, Jackie. Other Lovers. Bloodaxe Books. prelims |
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. 225 Roy, Sandra. Josephine Tey. Twayne. 25 |
Textual Production | Anne Devlin | BBC One
broadcast The Venus de Milo Instead, a teleplay by AD
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 245 “Anne Devlin”. Alan Brodie Representation. Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press. 95 |
Textual Production | Cicely Hamilton | Her radio broadcast for the BBC
on 2 April 1943, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of women's suffrage, was another memorable speech. |
Textual Production | Deborah Moggach | |
Textual Production | Michèle Roberts | MR
judged, and commented on, this magazine's competition for new short stories in summer 2016. Graffigny, Françoise de. The Peruvian Letters . . . . With An Additional Original Volume. Translator Roberts, Radagunda, Vol. 2 vols , T. Cadell. |
Textual Production | Alison Uttley | AU
's radio play about Mary Queen of Scots
was broadcast by the BBC
, which had also been airing readings of some of her stories. Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph. 166 |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie | Dorothy Sayers
invited AC
to contribute a segment to a BBC
radio crime-serial entitled Behind the Screen. Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, http://Rutherford HSS. 195 |
Textual Production | Nell Dunn | |
Textual Production | Naomi Alderman | NA
's short stories have appeared in the magazine Prospect, on BBC Radio 4
, and in various anthologies. Alderman, Naomi. Naomi Alderman. Novels and Games. http://www.naomialderman.com/about/. |
Textual Production | Jane Gardam | This book was adapted as a serial on the BBC
radio programme Woman's Hour. British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com. |
Textual Production | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | She included essays previously published in Time and Tide about her travels to far-off places such as Gibraltar, Morocco, Greece, Egypt, and the holy places of the earth: Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. Notes on the Way. Books for Libraries Press. 2 |
Textual Production | Phyllis Bottome | |
Textual Production | Anne Devlin | The opening instalment of AD
's three-part television adaptation of D. H. Lawrence
's novel The Rainbow was first aired on BBC One
. “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 |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie |
Timeline
8 December 1936: The BBC for the first time televised a full-length...
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8 December 1936
The BBC
for the first time televised a full-length ballet: William Walton
's Façade (derived from Edith Sitwell
) with Margot Fonteyn
and Robert Helpmann
.
9 December 1936: BBC television broadcast its first cookery...
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9 December 1936
BBC
television broadcast its first cookery demonstration: Moira Meighn
presented meals cookable in fifteen minutes on a single burner.
12 May 1937: The coronation of King George VI became the...
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12 May 1937
The coronation of King George VI
became the first outside broadcast by the BBC
Television Service.
21 June 1937: The Wimbledon tennis tournament was televised...
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21 June 1937
The Wimbledon tennis tournament was televised for the first time, by the BBC
.
11 November 1937: The BBC made its first television broadcast...
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11 November 1937
The BBC
made its first television broadcast of the Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph.
1938: BBC radio began a broadcasting service to...
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1938
BBC
radio began a broadcasting service to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and countries throughout Europe, which ran until 1943.
3 January 1938: The BBC's first foreign-language service...
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3 January 1938
The BBC
's first foreign-language service (in Arabic) began.
16 November 1938: The BBC televised for the first time a play...
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16 November 1938
The BBC
televised for the first time a play direct from the theatre, J. B. Priestley
's When We Are Married.
23 November 1938: The BBC televised underwater scenes for the...
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23 November 1938
The BBC
televised underwater scenes for the first time, during a training session for divers.
24 May 1939: BBC television presented the first high-definition...
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24 May 1939
BBC
television presented the first high-definition coverage of the Derby at Epsom.
23 August 1939: The BBC's London Calling was first broad...
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23 August 1939
The BBC
's London Calling was first broadcast.
1 September 1939: The BBC television service was stopped for...
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1 September 1939
The BBC
television service was stopped for reasons of national defence.
3 September 1939: Britain and France officially declared war...
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3 September 1939
Britain and France officially declared war on Germany.
19 September 1939: The BBC radio series It's That Man Again...
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19 September 1939
The BBC
radio series It's That Man Again began: known as, and pronounced as, ITMA, and ridiculing the alleged doings of Adolf Hitler
, it became immensely popular.
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