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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...

Most of the poems were written in Cornwall, which is a strong presence in the volume. Many had already appeared in periodicals: in Australia, Spain, and in the Anglo-Welsh Review as well...

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.

In her memoirs JK mentions her partner Denise Else , who is on good terms with Duffy and her daughter. Else works as a sound technician with the BBC .

The collection, dedicated to JK 's adoptive mother, was published by Bloodaxe Books in Newcastle upon Tyne, with a photograph of human chromosomes on the cover. BBC Radio 3 had broadcast...

Several of the poems had been broadcast on various BBC radio and television programmes, including When You Move Out on BBC Radio Four's Woman's Hour, and JK 's BBC 2 poetry documentary, Twice Through...

Lesley McDowell , reviewing the book in the Times Literary Supplement, called JKone of our most notable and challenging poets. One poem, Sabbath, was made into a film for BBC television .

JK continues to publish stories in periodicals: for instance Wish I was here, commissioned for Guardian, 2 August 2003. This story was broadcast on the BBC 's Radio Three during the same month.

In The Heroes of Clone Kennedy uses a present-day frame story, and the different interpretations of twentieth-century commentators, to present a mid-Victorian woman writer, Dorothea Harding, who used a frame story to convey a tale...

MK helped to initiate the Royal African Society , which was founded in her name in 1901 just after her death. Today the Society's website offers a biography and some striking pictures of MK ...

Still struggling, PL published in 1954 an untitled leaflet of poems with the Fantasy Press of Eynsham in Oxfordshire (number 21 of their Fantasy Poets). His poems were also by this time being read...

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.

Though ML grew up in the Jewish tradition, in a childhood faith which she later described with warmth but with some later distance, she became in time a self-professed and publicly-acknowledged atheist. Her journey from...

The committee had been convened by the Labour government after a long gestation. Its various recommendations included continuing the BBC licence fee, setting up a fourth television channel, and keeping strict curbs on commercial television...

ML felt that Kipling was undervalued as a poet by her generation, for political rather than literary reasons. She selected and edited a volume of his poems (Kipling's English History) for the BBC in 1974.