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Textual Production Stevie Smith
SS was interviewed by Derek Hart for the BBC Home Service; the interview is now available over the internet.
“BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4.
Textual Production Fay Weldon
It began as an idea floated to the BBC in 1985, before such formalities as a synopsis were required. Its author had suppposed it of rather local interest (for recipients of housing benefit in the...
Textual Production Shelagh Delaney
BBC Radio 4 broadcast SD 's play Whoopi Goldberg's Country Life, which has nothing to do with US writer Whoopi Goldberg , but is a sequel to Delaney's Country Life, 2004.
“Afternoon Play. Whoopi Goldberg’s Country Life”. BBC Radio 4.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Evelyn Glover
Between 1927 and 1934, EG had several short pieces broadcast over BBC radio.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
under Evelyn Glover
Textual Production Marghanita Laski
With Claud Cockburn , Cyril Connolly , Kenneth Tynan , Peter Forster , Wynford Vaughan Thomas , and Steven Watson , ML co-wrote the script for the BBC television comedy series Dig This Rhubarb.
Lewisohn, Mark. “Dig This Rhubarb”. The bbc.co.uk Guide to Comedy.
Textual Production Anne Ridler
She was commissioned to write this play both by the vicar of St Mary's Church inOxford, and by the BBC Third Programme. It was performed at St Mary's (the UniversityChurch, and the actual scene...
Textual Production Brigid Brophy
After John Profumo resigned from the Cabinet on 4 June 1963 following his detection in a lie to the House of Commons about his relationship with a prostitute, the BBC commissioned BB for a talk...
Textual Production Selima Hill
SH reviews books of poetry. She contributed the introduction to Helen Armstrong 's Sean's House: Poems by Writers from Selima Hill's Exeter Writing Groups, Exeter 1996. In 1990 she edited Jumping Over Trees: Poems...
Textual Production Penelope Lively
PL has been highly productive as a writer for children, in books and stories which tackle themes similar to those of her adult novels. She has acted as presenter on a BBC Radio 4 programme...
Textual Production Vita Sackville-West
Her written journalism was complemented by public speaking and broadcasting on the BBC : on women's rights, literature, travel, and English society.
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research.
34: 261
She made her first radio broadcast on 18 April 1928, a...
Textual Production Bernardine Evaristo
BE adapted the novella as a radio play for the BBC in 2012.
Textual Production Sarah Daniels
SD has also written for radio (especially) and for television. Because she needed the money, she became a scriptwriter for two popular and successful BBC tv series: Grange Hill (set in a comprehensive school and...
Textual Production F. Tennyson Jesse
In 1948 FTJ and her husband adapted the novel as a play, which opened in London at the New Boltons Theatre Club in May 1951. The novel was produced as a talking book in 1953...
Textual Production Olivia Manning
OM 's The Balkan Trilogy consists of three novels, The Great Fortune, The Spoilt City, and Friends and Heroes, published between 1960 and 1965. L. W. Bailey writes that OM 's husband
Textual Production Ray Strachey
RS was a prolific essayist who regularly wrote for many American and British publications, including The Nation and Athenæum, The Spectator, The Daily Mail, The Observer, and the New York Evening...

Timeline

29 July 1948: The BBC broadcast a television programme...

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29 July 1948

The BBC broadcast a television programme on the opening of the Olympic Games from Wembley Stadium in still visibly bomb-damaged London. This was the first Olympics to be televised.

11 October 1948: The first outside BBC television broadcast...

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11 October 1948

The first outside BBC television broadcast was made: from Number 10 Downing Street for the Commonwealth Conference .

March 1949: Elizabeth Bowen's feature on 1918 was broadcast...

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March 1949

Elizabeth Bowen 's feature on 1918 was broadcast on the BBC 's Third Programme series A Year I Remember.

29 July 1949: BBC television aired its first weather b...

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29 July 1949

BBC television aired its first weather broadcast.

4 September 1949: The surface of the moon was televised by...

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4 September 1949

The surface of the moon was televised by the BBC for the first time, through a powerful telescope.

16 January 1950: The BBC made its first broadcast of Listen...

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16 January 1950

The BBC made its first broadcast of Listen with Mother.

23 February 1950: The General Election brought 84 percent of...

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23 February 1950

The General Election brought 84 percent of the British electorate out to vote. The BBC aired the first televised report of results of this election.

27 August 1950: The BBC made its first live television broadcast...

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27 August 1950

The BBC made its first live television broadcast from the Continent (from Calais) using outside broadcast equipment.

30 September 1950: The BBC aired its first live air-to-ground...

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30 September 1950

The BBC aired its first live air-to-ground television broadcast, from an aircraft in flight.

26 October 1950: The BBC made its first sound and television...

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26 October 1950

The BBC made its first sound and television broadcast from the House of Commons, on the occasion of the opening of the rebuilt chamber.

1 January 1951: After a one-week trial the previous May,...

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1 January 1951

After a one-week trial the previous May, The Archers, countryside soap-opera of BBC radio, began regular broadcasting; it soon attracted two million listeners.

January 1951: The Beveridge Committee on Broadcasting reported...

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January 1951

The BeveridgeCommittee on Broadcasting reported that the propaganda power
“Media quotations from official sources”. Terra Media: Quotations.
of access through radio and television to millions of homes was too great to be allowed out of public institutional hands.

May 1951: The BBC experimentally launched a comic radio...

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May 1951

The BBC experimentally launched a comic radio series, Crazy People; as The Goon Show, it ran for nine years and became a household word.

6 June 1951: The BBC made its first broadcast from Buckingham...

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6 June 1951

The BBC made its first broadcast from Buckingham Palace, on the occasion of a State Banquet for King Haakon of Norway.

4 October 1951: E. M. Forster's praise for the accomplishments...

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4 October 1951

E. M. Forster 's praise for the accomplishments of the BBC's Third Programme was published in The Listener.

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