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After an August 1933 massacre of Assyrian civilians by the Iraqi Army, FS was in demand as an authority on Iraq. She spoke at the BBC , the Forum , and the Royal Central Asia Society

She continued to travel extensively over the subsequent decades, occasionally with the BBC and other film crews, and more often with her various godchildren (among whom she was known to favour her godsons).

Alan Pryce-Jones , editor of the Times Literary Supplement, commissioned MS for a middle page on Mary Shelley before her book appeared. Spark also gave a talk on Shelley for the BBC Third Programme...

Spark's editor, Alan Maclean , told her: You've hit the jackpot today.The Comforters was successful enough for MS once more to leave her job and concentrate on writing. Maclean found her an American...

An Author's Note says that both stories and plays were written on the same creative wavelength, whether addressing the inner or outer ear. Rayner Heppenstall of the BBCThird Programme suggested that MS should...

The London theatre critics were scathing, with only two exceptions (though one of these, Harold Hobson , carried a lot of weight). Pamela Hansford Johnson trounced the play on the BBC 's radio programme The...

The stage directions in this final scene suggest a deadlock or a stand-off: the characters' eyes meet in a long steady look and they sit at the table facing one another as they strike...

ES 's nephew Nevill Coghill broadcast a talk about her for the BBC : she thought it beautifully done but wished he had said more about Martin Ross .

Some commentators have argued that theirs was a lesbian, sexual relationship, and some that it was not. It was the subject of the radio play One Goodnight by Maureen Duffy , broadcast by the BBC

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. It...

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 ...

The book was immediately popular. Noel Streatfeild chose it as her Book of the Month in Young Elizabethan magazine, and Foyle's Children's Book Club bought 20,000 copies. Reviews were glowing: the Times Literary Supplement described...

SS recorded a series of three programmes entitled Poems and Drawings, which was broadcast by the BBC .

SS was interviewed by Derek Hart for the BBC Home Service; the interview is now available over the internet.

Her large circle of friends also included Sally Chilver (author of A History of Socialism), novelists Inez Holden , Olivia Manning , and Cecily Mackworth , Kay Dick (assistant editor of John O'London's Weekly...