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BB did an interview with Christopher Cook for the BBC World Service , which is available on the internet from their Audio Interviews series.

BB was, she said, a tap-dancing member of Miss Thelma Broadbent 's Ensemble in Southport as a small child. At twelve she was recruited by the BBC to work as a young broadcaster on Children's...

When she was pregnant for the first time, BB set about trying to earn some money by writing and recording a story for BBC children's radio. Ceedy Man and the Bellringers developed into a series...

Honours were showered upon Barrie in his later days. He was created a baronet in 1913 and awarded the Order of Merit in 1920. A number of universities honoured him, and in 1928 he became...

Austen Kark came to hold a high position in the BBC 's overseas service. The couple's daughter, Perdita, was born in 1957. By 2004 NB had grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Her husband, Austen Kark, was killed...

Sheila Mitchell , commenting on this novel on BBC radio, called it one of the best she had read about the family situation as we have it nowadays.

It was made into a film for BBC television.

On 26 August 1944, Hemingway came rolling down rue de l'Odéon with four BBC cars and liberated the rue de l'Odéon. SB writes that she heard four shots on the roofs and that was the...

SB 's first radio play, All That Fall, was broadcast by the BBC .

Following several other love-affairs (the earliest with a cousin, Peggy Sinclair , who died young in 1933), SB shared his life from about this time with pianist Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil , whom he married in 1961...

Into this work, SB wrote later, she threw herself with a compound of conviction and self-doubt. Its sources were, besides the different narrating talents of her parents, the indiscretions of tutors and servants, the...

The reviewer on the BBC Western Region found them almost unbearably poignant.

During the 1950s her poems were often read on a BBC Western Region programme, where they were first introduced by Charles Causley . John Lehmann read one of FB 's poems on the Third Programme...

Inheritance was a huge success: it sold 20,000 copies by July 1932, and within a year had gone through ten editions; in time it was translated into eight languages. It was broadcast serially on the...

She had already written a televised version of her own Pig-Heart Boy (shown by the BBC on 7 December 1999) and several episodes each for the tv series Byker Grove and Whizziwig (of which only...