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Connections Author name Excerpt
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 Diana Athill
DA 's contributions to various periodicals sometimes enlarge on Stet in describing famous writers and her publishing relationships with them. In 2000 she wrote for the TLS on Jean Rhys and for Granta on V. S. Naipaul
Textual Production Sarah Daniels
Over the course of her career SD has become much involved in radio drama. From once believing that only sad bastards listen to BBC Radio 4 , she has progressed to becoming a regular contributor...
Textual Production Sara Maitland
These stories (originally commissioned by the BBC for broadcast during the days of Holy Week, leading up to Good Friday) were not reprinted in Angel Maker: The Short Stories of Sara Maitland, which was...
Textual Production Malorie Blackman
Hacker was dramatized for BBC radio .
qtd. in
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Shelagh Delaney
SD wrote several television scripts in the 1970s and early 1980s. The first was Did Your Nanny Come from Bergen? for the BBC in 1970.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
VW broadcast in a BBC series called Words Fail Me a talk with the title Craftsmanship; however, she used her talk to attack the title as wholly inappropriate to the use of words.
Woolf, Virginia. The Death of the Moth. Hogarth Press, 1942.
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Textual Production Winsome Pinnock
Later the same year she featured in Lenny Henry 's ten-part BBC documentary series Raising The Bar: 100 Years Of Black British Theatre And Screen (along with historical figures like Una Marson ). She also...
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 Dodie Smith
Dear Octopus was revived almost immediately at the Adelphi , in July and August of 1940, and it remains DS 's most frequently revived play. It was published by Heinemann in 1938.
Gale, Maggie B. West End Women: Women and the London Stage, 1918-1962. Routledge, 1996.
226
Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
107
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
It...
Textual Production Iris Murdoch
IM published her Booker-Prize-winning novel, The Sea, the Sea, a tale of obsessive love, televised by the BBC in 2001.
Fletcher, John, 1937 -, and Cheryl Bove. Iris Murdoch: A Descriptive Primary and Annotated Secondary Bibliography. Garland Publishing, 1994.
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Todd, Richard. Iris Murdoch. Methuen, 1984.
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Textual Production Kate Clanchy
BBC Radio 3 broadcast readings and discussion by KC and working-class poet Paul Farley of poems by Philip Larkin based on train travel around Larkinland and conversation with some of its denizens.
“Children of the Whitsun Weddings”. BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature, 22 July 2010.
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 Susan Hill
SH had already broadcast ten plays by the time the BBC published The Cold Country, and Other Plays for Radio, a collection of five of these pieces.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1976
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Sarah Daniels
SD considered she had never enjoyed anything so much as collaborative work on the BBC World Service radio soap Westway (in work broadcast in November 1997).
Bull, John, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 245. Gale Research, 2001.
114-15
This involved six writers driving the producers mad...

Timeline

3 November 1956: Prime Minister Anthony Eden made one of a...

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3 November 1956

Prime Minister Anthony Eden made one of a series of ministerial broadcasts on the recent Suez crisis, which was covered by BBC television and ITV as well as the BBC radio service at home and...

24 September 1957: BBC television for schools began broadca...

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24 September 1957

BBC television for schools began broadcasting.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
241
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
388

21 April 1958: Margery Fry died as almost a national celebrity:...

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21 April 1958

Margery Fry died as almost a national celebrity: criminal justice reformer, prison reformer, campaigner for victims' compensation, educationalist (briefly Principal of Somerville College ), writer on children's care and development, and latterly broadcaster (a regular...

14 July 1958: The BBC transmitted its first live television...

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14 July 1958

The BBC transmitted its first live television broadcast from Africa via Eurovision : coverage of Bastille Day in Algiers.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
389

4 November 1958: BBC television broadcast the coronation of...

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4 November 1958

BBC television broadcast the coronation of Pope John XXIII via Eurovision .
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
389

Up to 8 October 1959: The BBC for the first time gave coverage...

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Up to 8 October 1959

The BBC for the first time gave coverage in its news broadcasts to a General Election campaign.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
390

20 June 1960: Nan Winton became the first woman reader...

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20 June 1960

Nan Winton became the first woman reader of television network news on the BBC .
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
391

25 December 1960: Queen Elizabeth II's first pre-recorded Christmas...

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25 December 1960

Queen Elizabeth II 's first pre-recorded Christmas message was broadcast on BBC television.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
391

1962: Publisher John Calder and writer's widow...

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1962

Publisher John Calder and writer's widow Sonia Orwell together organised at Edinburgh the first, highly successful Writers' Conference.
Drabble, Margaret. “Pressure to Perform”. The Author, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 2001, pp. 162-4.
162

15 January 1963: The BBC removed its ban preventing comedy...

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15 January 1963

The BBC removed its ban preventing comedy programmes from discussing politics, sex, religion, or royalty.
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.

New Year's Day 1964: The popular and long-running BBC programme...

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New Year's Day 1964

The popular and long-running BBC programme Top of the Pops was launched The presenter was Jimmy Savile , who years later was posthumously disgraced as a paedophile.
O’Hagan, Andrew. “Light Entertainment”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 21, 8 Nov. 2012, pp. 5-8.
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1965: Peter Watson's The War Game, a television...

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1965

Peter Watson 's The War Game, a television film which imagines conditions in Britain in the aftermath of a nuclear attack, was withdrawn by the BBC in response to government pressure.
Rose, David. “The Closest Call”. The Observer, 3 Mar. 2002, p. Review 15.
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16 December 1966: The BBC screened its famous Wednesday play...

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16 December 1966

The BBC screened its famous Wednesday playCathy Come Home, a drama about a homeless family written by Jeremy Sandford (husband of Nell Dunn ), produced by Tony Garnett , and directed by Ken Loach .
Gilbey, Ryan. “Putting the Manifesto before the Movie”. London Review of Books, 31 Oct. 2002, pp. 34-5.
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Cathy Come Home. http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/cathycomeho/cathycomeho.htm.

1967: The BBC began the first regular colour television...

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1967

The BBC began the first regular colour television service in Europe.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
360

30 September 1967: The BBC's Third Programme was renamed Radio...

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30 September 1967

The BBC 's Third Programme was renamed Radio 3 , and revised to cut down the proportion of spoken word material broadcast in favour of classical music.
“Third Programme Starts”. BBC Four: Timeline: The Lost Decade, 1945-1955.
Childs, Peter, and Mike Storry, editors. Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture. Routledge, 1999.
441

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