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Textual Production Nell Dunn
ND adapted her own fiction volume Up the Junction for television (the BBC 's Wednesday Play series) under the directorship of Ken Loach .
“Nell Dunn”. Alan Brodie Representation: Clients.
Gilbey, Ryan. “Putting the Manifesto before the Movie”. London Review of Books, pp. 34-5.
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Textual Production Michelene Wandor
Other radio plays that MW has written about women writers include An Uncommon Love, based on Hannah Cullwick 's relationship with Arthur Munby , A Consoling Blue, about Jean Rhys 's writing of...
Textual Production Naomi Alderman
NA 's short stories have appeared in the magazine Prospect, on BBC Radio 4 , and in various anthologies.
Alderman, Naomi. Naomi Alderman. Novels and Games. http://www.naomialderman.com/about/.
Textual Production Teresa Deevy
This reached print the year after it was performed, in the Dublin Magazine. It played in Cork in 1939, opening on 6 November. A television film made from it was broadcast by the BBC
Textual Production Jackie Kay
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.
Kay, Jackie. The Adoption Papers. Bloodaxe Books.
prelims
Kay, Jackie. Off Colour. Bloodaxe Books.
back cover
BBC Radio 3 had broadcast...
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 Nancy Mitford
It was televised by the BBC during winter 2000-1.
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.
245
Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Textual Production Rose Tremain
About the time of publication this book was read on BBC radio as A Book at Bedtime.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
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 Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
A ten-part BBC television adaptation followed in 1969.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(15 April 1969): 14
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 Michelene Wandor
Novels adapted by MW are not restricted to those by women. Works by male writers she has revised for broadcasting include Kipps by H. G. Wells , aired on Radio 4 in 1984 and runner-up...
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...

Timeline

19 May 1924: The BBC radio made the first broadcast of...

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19 May 1924

The BBC radio made the first broadcast of the song of a nightingale.

12 June 1924: Compton Mackenzie presented the first disc-jockey...

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12 June 1924

Compton Mackenzie presented the first disc-jockey programme on BBC radio.

15 September 1924: The BBC began broadcasting in Belfast, Northern...

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15 September 1924

The BBC began broadcasting in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

3 October 1924: The BBC radio presented its first outside...

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3 October 1924

The BBC radio presented its first outside broadcast, from London Zoo.

13 October 1924: The BBC broadcast its first election address:...

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13 October 1924

The BBC broadcast its first election address: Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald speaking at a mass meeting in Glasgow.

1925: An article in Punch coined the term middle-brow...

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1925

An article in Punch coined the term middle-brow (on analogy with highbrow) for people who are hoping that someday they will get used to the stuff they ought to like.
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 303-31.
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17 July 1925: The Radio Supplement was first issued by...

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17 July 1925

The Radio Supplement was first issued by the BBC .

16 November 1925-13 March 1926: Alan Cobham and his crew made the first round-trip...

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16 November 1925-13 March 1926

Alan Cobham and his crew made the first round-trip flight from London to Cape Town.

1926: The BBC set up an Advisory Committee on Spoken...

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1926

The BBC set up an Advisory Committee on Spoken English, with the aim of enforcing uniformity and eliminating the use of regional accents.

26 May 1926: The BBC for the first time broadcast speeches...

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26 May 1926

The BBC for the first time broadcast speeches from the House of Lords .

Saturday 19 June 1926: About a hundred thousand participants of...

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Saturday 19 June 1926

About a hundred thousand participants of the Peacemakers' Pilgrimage (all wearing blue armbands showing the white dove of peace and the word Pax) converged on Hyde Park in London.

By October 1926: The BBC named Hilda Matheson as its first...

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By October 1926

The BBC named Hilda Matheson as its first Director of Talks, one of the most highly paid jobs for a woman in any organisation at that time,
Carney, Michael. Stoker. Published by the author.
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as her biographer puts it.

31 December 1926-1 January 1927: The British Broadcasting Company was dissolved...

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31 December 1926-1 January 1927

The British Broadcasting Company was dissolved and the British Broadcasting Corporation was constituted under Royal Charter for ten years.

1927: The BBC's first female governor, Ethel Snowden,...

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1927

The BBC 's first female governor, Ethel Snowden , was appointed.

25 April 1928: Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer,...

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25 April 1928

Winston Churchill , Chancellor of the Exchequer, made the first budget speech to be broadcast on the BBC .

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