Streatfeild, Noel, and Shirley Hughes. The Bell Family. Collins.
prelims
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Textual Features | Lesley Storm | This play effectively portrays the aftermath in Britain of the defection of Guy Burgess
and Donald Maclean
, who fled to the Soviet Union on 25 May 1951 after years of spying for Communist
Russia... |
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... |
Dedications | Noel Streatfeild | NS
published in book form The Bell Family, illustrated by Shirley Hughes
and dedicated to Josephine Plummer
, who had produced her series of the same name on the BBC
radio programme Children's Hour in 1949-51. Streatfeild, Noel, and Shirley Hughes. The Bell Family. Collins. prelims Wilson, Barbara Ker. Noel Streatfeild. Bodley Head. 28 Huse, Nancy. Noel Streatfeild. Twayne. 107 |
Publishing | Noel Streatfeild | In 2004 this book was broadcast serially on BBC Radio 4
. Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/. |
Textual Production | Noel Streatfeild | She used her own theatre experience, and the ballet experience of a sister. The book (whose full title was Ballet Shoes, A story of three children on the stage) was illustrated by the author's... |
Occupation | Jan Struther | Her broadcasting career did not end with the war, but continued sporadically in the USA and even occasionally in England with the BBC
. Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray. 265 |
Reception | Rosemary Sutcliff | The TLS review pronounced that RS
had steadily improved at her craft, but that the book under review still had drawbacks: over-sweetness of writing and some sentimentality in the personal relationships. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2755 (19 November 1954): 748 |
Textual Production | Josephine Tey | Gordon Daviot
(also known as JT
) published a volume of eight one-act plays (of which all but one had been broadcast on BBC
Radio during the Second World War), Leith Sands, and Other Short Plays. Henderson, Jennifer Morag. Josephine Tey, a life. Sandstone Press. 225 Roy, Sandra. Josephine Tey. Twayne. 25 |
Reception | Josephine Tey | Tey's novel was made into a BBC
television movie in 1986. It was also the unacknowledged basis for the 1963 film Paranoiac, directed by Freddie Francis
. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com. Tey, Josephine. Brat Farrar. Penguin. front cover |
Reception | Josephine Tey | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Angela Thirkell | At sixteen he left Australia (shortly after his mother returned to England) for Brussels, where he worked in business until, in 1935, he moved to England himself. He studied art, served in the army during... |
Reception | Dylan Thomas | At another performance two weeks later (with the script this time complete), the cast took fourteen curtain calls before Thomas took the final one alone. Other American readings followed. DT
delivered the typed, completed manuscript... |
Reception | Dylan Thomas | The name of the fictional town or village of Llareggub (bugger all spelled backwards) had been in his mind for more than twenty years. He had discussed the project of a history of this... |
Performance of text | Dylan Thomas | It went out on the BBC Third Programme
, with the Welsh actor Richard Burton
taking Thomas's part as narrator, and with only three cosmetic cuts Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas. A New Life. Overlook Press. 377 |
Performance of text | Dylan Thomas | Many of these pieces had been first broadcast on BBC
radio, not including the furiously satirical How To Be a Poet but including a warm tribute to an actual poet, Wilfred Owen
. Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ . 4 November 2008 |
No timeline events available.
No bibliographical results available.