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Performance of text Elizabeth Ham
EH 's autobiography was published, nearly a century after her death, as Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, after excerpts had been read on BBC programmes and printed in The Listener.
Ham, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820, edited by Eric Gillett, Faber and Faber, pp. 5-12.
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Performance of text Naomi Royde-Smith
A debate between NRS and Compton Mackenzie was held under the auspices of the Drama League , and broadcast live on BBC radio. Royde-Smith maintained that The Broadcast Play is an unsatisfactory Form of Art...
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
Performance of text Anne Devlin
AD 's teleplay Naming the Names first shown on BBC Two television channel; it was also broadcast on BBC Radio later this year.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Performance of text Iris Murdoch
IM 's verse play with music, The One Alone, had its world premiere, at 9.15 p.m. on BBC Radio Three.
Fletcher, John, and Cheryl Bove. Iris Murdoch: A Descriptive Primary and Annotated Secondary Bibliography. Garland Publishing.
177
Performance of text Louise Page
This was also performed in July the same year at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and was adapted for broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 23 November 1978 (after some thought of...
Performance of text Eleanor Farjeon
Her introduction confides that her writing of children's poetry originated in the death of her dream of being a real poet.
Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae.
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One of these poems, Mrs. Malone, was read on BBC Radio Four's...
Performance of text Sylvia Plath
SP 's verse radio play Three Women: A Monologue for Three Voices was broadcast, posthumously, by the BBC .
Tabor, Stephen. Sylvia Plath: An Analytical Bibliography. Meckler.
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Performance of text Teresa Deevy
TD 's radio play Polinka was broadcast by BBC Northern Ireland . It was repeated on this station in January 1949 and April 1951 and by the BBC all over Britain in December that year.
The Teresa Deevy Archive. http://deevy.nuim.ie/.
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Performance of text Elaine Feinstein
The BBC broadcast EF 's television play Breath, first of a good deal of mostly unpublished drama she has written for TV and radio.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Performance of text Kathleen Jamie
A shorter version had been broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in 1985 under the title Rumours of Guns.
Jamie, Kathleen, and Lilias Fraser. Mr. and Mrs. Scotland are Dead. Bloodaxe Books.
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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.
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out of the originally stipulated bowdlerization. The BBC
Performance of text Agatha Christie
AC had written two plays, Black Coffee (1930) and Akhnaton (written in 1937 but not published until 1973), before adapting her novel Ten Little Niggers for the stage. This opened at St James's Theatre ,...
Performance of text Sarah Waters
She carried out as much research as available sources permitted into lesbian lives in England of the 1940s, and spent four years working on this novel (as compared with one year for her first). She...
Performance of text Elaine Feinstein
Two of these poems, Getting Older and Urban Lyric were read on BBC Radio Four 's Woman's Hour programme, and appear in the Woman's Hour 50th Anniversary Poetry Collection, 1996.
McLoughlin, Pat, editor. Woman’s Hour: 50th Anniversary Poetry Collection. Penguin.
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May 2009: The BBC aimed to demonstrate that poetry...

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May 2009

The BBC aimed to demonstrate that poetry is for everyone in a series launched this month: it succeeded in that sales of poetry soared in Britain.

Late October 2009: The BBC first opened to the public its sound...

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Late October 2009

The BBC first opened to the public its sound archive entitled Suffragette Voices.

6 October 2010: A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes,...

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6 October 2010

A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes , Last Letter, became available to the public when it was read on the BBC 's Channel 4 News by Jonathan Pryce .
Kennedy, Maev. “Unknown poem reveals Ted Hughes’ torment over death of Sylvia Plath”. The Guardian.

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