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Textual Production Beryl Bainbridge
BB did an interview with Christopher Cook for the BBC World Service , which is available on the internet from their Audio Interviews series.
“BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4.
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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Palestine...
Textual Production Anne Devlin
BBC Two aired A Woman Calling, AD 's first television play, adapted from her own short story Passages, and produced by her husband, Chris Parr .
Devlin, Anne. Ourselves Alone. Faber and Faber.
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Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Textual Production Margaret Laurence
This book began with a commission from the BBC to write four programmes about Nigerian literature. ML gave herself a crash course in the subject, about which she was very enthusiastic, and expanded her radio...
Textual Production Susan Hill
It was adapted as a BBC radio play and re-titled as Miss Lavender is Dead, in 1970.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Textual Production Marina Warner
MW published Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time, a collection of six essays originally broadcast on radio earlier that year as the annual BBC Reith lectures.
Moseley, Merritt, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 194. Gale Research.
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Textual Production Shena Mackay
This brings together the contents of her three previous volumes of stories (putting those from the latest volume first), and adds two uncollected stories (one of them commissioned for BBC Radio 4 , 1993).
Mackay, Shena. Collected Short Stories. Penguin.
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Textual Production Harold Pinter
Writing for radio (the 6 Third Programme , precursor of Radio Three ), television, and West End revues (put on by Michael Codron ) turned out to be a lifeline for Pinter after the failure...
Textual Production Sarah Daniels
SD 's radio play for three characters on the topic of breast cancer, Cross My Heart and Hope to Fly, was broadcast by the BBC on 22 March 2002, produced and directed by Sally Avens
Textual Production Sarah Kane
Kane used this pseudonym to conceal her identity, first at a lunchtime reading and then at the Traverse Theatre, in an attempt to cast off her reputation for obscenity and violence. The programme included a...
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 Deborah Moggach
DM has written a number of TV screenplays, both from her own prose and that of others, and in the form of original scripts, from which several of her novels were expanded. She has adapted...
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 Marina Warner
MW 's first filmscript was followed by two others written for Cinderella and Imaginary Women, both produced in 1986. She also wrote a television script for Tell Me More, screened on BBC 's...

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1940: Ivy Benson, an accomplished and later famous...

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1940

Ivy Benson , an accomplished and later famous musician trained at the Leeds College of Art , established the group Ivy Benson and Her All-Girl Band.

7 January 1940: BBC radio's Forces Programme began....

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7 January 1940

BBC radio's Forces Programme began.

19 May 1940: Winston Churchill made his first BBC radio...

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19 May 1940

Winston Churchill made his first BBC radio broadcast as wartime coalition Prime Minister.

18 June 1940: Winston Churchill made his famous This was...

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18 June 1940

Winston Churchill made his famous This was their finest hour . . . broadcast on BBC radio.

13 October 1940: Princess Elizabeth made her first BBC radio...

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13 October 1940

Princess Elizabeth made her first BBC radio broadcast, directed to children of the Empire.

15 October 1940: A delayed-action bomb exploded in the BBC's...

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15 October 1940

A delayed-action bomb exploded in the BBC 's Broadcasting House during the 9 o'clock news, killing seven staff-members.

8 December 1940: A land mine caused severe damage to BBC's...

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8 December 1940

A land mine caused severe damage to BBC 's Broadcasting House.

1 January 1941: BBC radio's Brains' Trust (at first called...

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1 January 1941

BBC radio's Brains' Trust (at first called Any Questions) began.

10 May 1941: During the final, most destructive raid of...

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10 May 1941

During the final, most destructive raid of the Blitz, Queen's Hall was completely demolished by bombs and the BBC studios at Maida Vale received a direct hit from a high-explosive bomb.

22 June 1941: Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union (named...

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22 June 1941

Hitler 's invasion of the Soviet Union (named Operation Barbarossa, and in contravention of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact of 23 August 1939) began with a surprise attack at dawn which destroyed a thousand Soviet planes...

9 November 1941: The BBC forces' programme Sincerely Yours,...

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9 November 1941

The BBC forces' programme Sincerely Yours, Vera Lynn began broadcasting.

22 March 1942: The BBC transmitted its first daily news...

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22 March 1942

The BBC transmitted its first daily news bulletin in Morse code (in English and various other languages) to Resistance troops in Europe.

2 November 1942: The BBC's French service for Canada bega...

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2 November 1942

The BBC 's French service for Canada began.

3 April 1943: The BBC's programme Saturday Night Theatre...

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3 April 1943

The BBC 's programme Saturday Night Theatre began.

6 June 1944: On this day, known as D-Day (and postponed...

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6 June 1944

On this day, known as D-Day (and postponed a day because of bad weather), 155,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy. The airborne armada, nine planes wide and stretching for 200 miles, carried British, Canadian...

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