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Textual Production Jeanette Winterson
The television adaptation of JW 's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was transmitted in three episodes on BBC Television ; the script was published the same year.
Winterson, Jeanette. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: Adapted from her novel by Jeanette Winterson. Pandora.
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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 Jean Rhys
Rhys heard from a friend in October 1956 that the BBC were looking for her regarding a feature production of the novel. She wrote to them to encourage their plans, as it had been seven...
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.
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Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press.
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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, and Cheryl Bove. Iris Murdoch: A Descriptive Primary and Annotated Secondary Bibliography. Garland Publishing.
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Todd, Richard. Iris Murdoch. Methuen.
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Textual Production Helen Waddell
HW was assiduous in supplying obituaries for friends, acquaintances, or figures she admired, and was very upset when her notice for the Times on Charlotte , G. B. Shaw's wife, appeared riddled with misprints.
Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable.
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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.
Textual Production Elizabeth Jane Howard
After the completion of the tetralogy, a television series was made from the novels, though the BBC cut back from the first proposal of six episodes per book, to six from each of the first...
Textual Production Louise Page
The BBC published in 1997 Isabella. An Orphan Jilted, a spoof costume novel set in the eighteenth century by Mary Crewe, realized by Louise Page .
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
This is a spin-off from LP 's...
Textual Production Dodie Smith
DS found herself increasingly out of step with the new drama being produced in London since the advent of the Angry Young Men. She could tolerate John Osborne and even admired Shelagh Delaney ...
Textual Production Naomi Alderman
NA says this book was facilitated by the success of fictions about other, distinct communities: Zadie Smith 's White Teeth, Monica Ali 's Brick Lane, and especially influenced by Jeanette Winterson 's Oranges...
Textual Production Catherine Cookson
By the late 1980s, when she was past eighty herself and in precarious health, CC had become an industry that supported a vast empire, with hundreds of people dependent on her for their livelihood. This...
Textual Production Sara Maitland
A story by SM was read on the BBC 's Morning Story programme on 20 March 1989. Since then she has written a number of pieces specifically for radio or television. Finetake Productions made her...
Textual Production Anne Stevenson
Correspondences by AS was published both by Wesleyan University Press and Oxford University Press .
Stevenson, Anne. Selected Poems, 1956-1986. Oxford University Press.
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She worked on it from 1970, researching (while her husband, Mark Elvin , held an appointment at Harvard between...

Timeline

21 June 1969: Queen Elizabeth II and her family, in tune...

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21 June 1969

Queen Elizabeth II and her family, in tune with the lowering of boundaries of the time period, provided the BBC unprecedented access to their lives for the documentary The Royal Family.

10 April 1974: The Annan Committee began work on its enquiry...

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10 April 1974

The Annan Committee began work on its enquiry into the structure, funding, and future of British broadcasting.

5 November 1974: Shirley Gee's first radio play, Stones, was...

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5 November 1974

Shirley Gee 's first radio play, Stones, was produced for BBC Radio 3 .

1976: Angela Rippon became the first woman newsreader...

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1976

Angela Rippon became the first woman newsreader on British television (BBC ); the job lasted only six years, though she acquired an enthusiastic public.

By 11 October 1976: More people in Britain held licences for...

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By 11 October 1976

More people in Britain held licences for colour television sets than for black and white: the licence fee continued, to fund the BBC .

28 February 1977: Moonshine, a play by Shirley Gee, was produced...

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28 February 1977

Moonshine, a play by Shirley Gee , was produced and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 .

16 August 1979: BBC Radio 4 broadcast Shirley Gee's Bedr...

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16 August 1979

BBC Radio 4 broadcastShirley Gee 's Bedrock.

1980: Shirley Gee's Typhoid Mary was included in...

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1980

Shirley Gee 's Typhoid Mary was included in the BBC 's Best Radio Plays of 1979: The Giles Cooper Award Winners.

16 October 1987: In the early hours of the morning a violent...

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16 October 1987

In the early hours of the morning a violent storm battered the south of England, with winds reaching a hundred kilometres an hour in some places.

24 May 1988: The Local Government Act came into force...

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24 May 1988

The Local Government Act came into force in Britain, containing the highly controversial section 28, forbidding local authorities from promoting homosexuality.

1991: The Listener, founded early in 1929 as the...

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1991

The Listener, founded early in 1929 as the journal of the BBC , ceased publication.

22 April 1993: Young white thugs made an unprovoked knife...

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22 April 1993

Young white thugs made an unprovoked knife attack on a Black teenager, Stephen Lawrence , and a friend with whom he was waiting at a bus-stop in Eltham, south-east London. The pair ran, but Stephen...

16 June 2003: A BBC television quiz programme, The Professionals...

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16 June 2003

A BBC television quiz programme, The Professionals (successor to University Challenge), which pits against each other teams of journalists, meteorologists, psychiatrists or whatever, fielded a team of poets.

10 September 2003: Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of...

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10 September 2003

Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of the Week a website entitled Poetry Landmarks of Britain: a map of poetic assocations plotted on an interactive map of Britain, searchable by region or category.

20 June 2006: The BBC cancelled its flagship pop music...

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20 June 2006

The BBC cancelled its flagship pop music programme, Top of the Pops, after forty-two years on the air.

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