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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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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.
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“Anne Devlin”. Alan Brodie Representation.
Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press.
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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
DM published her twelfth novel, Close Relations, for which she also wrote the screenplay when it became a highly successful and slightly scandalous BBC television serial.
The title Close Relations has been used by...
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.
She contributes regularly to the BBC 's Woman's Hour and to its arts-and-ideas programme Night Waves. She has written...
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.
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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.
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Textual Production Nell Dunn
ND adapted her own fiction volume Up the Junction for television (the BBC 's Wednesday Play series) under the directorship of Ken Loach .
“Nell Dunn”. Alan Brodie Representation: Clients.
Gilbey, Ryan. “Putting the Manifesto before the Movie”. London Review of Books, pp. 34-5.
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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.
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Textual Production Phyllis Bottome
The BBC commissioned PB to prepare a script to be transmitted to North America on the Democracy Marches radio programme.
Calder, Robert. Beware the British Serpent. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
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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
AC gave the first of two radio interviews preserved by the BBC ; in it she spoke of why she began writing and about her working methods and habits.
“BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4.

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.

2 April 1938: The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race was televised...

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2 April 1938

The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race was televised for the first time on the BBC .

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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