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Performance of text E. H. Young
The actress Gladys Young read aloud on a BBC radio programme an unascribed story about a haunted country house which was apparently by her sister EHY .
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
27
, No. 3, Sept. 2001, pp. 303-31.
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Performance of text Germaine Greer
The BBC 's Broadcasting Support Services published a transcription of a discussion about education by a group of women journalists and writers moderated by GG : The Last Word (IV)
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisitions stamp.
Greer, Germaine, editor. The Last Word. BBC Broadcasting Support Services, 1994.
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Performance of text Lilian Bowes Lyon
LBL 's poem Battlefield appeared in the Listener after having been read aloud on BBC wireless, or radio.
Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge, 1996.
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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, 1987.
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Performance of text Caryl Churchill
CC 's radio play The Ants was aired on the BBC .
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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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, 2002.
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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 Richmal Crompton
The BBC filmed a play entitled Just William for television. The play was based on RC 's William books, and was then playing at the Granville Theatre in Fulham.
“William; Just William”. BBC: Guide to Comedy.
Performance of text E. H. Young
Later stories, like The Grey Mare (17 February 1948) and Cow's Tail (20 September 1950) were also read on the BBC .
Briganti, Chiara, and Kathy Mezei. Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E. H. Young. Ashgate, 2006.
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Performance of text Charlotte Mew
The dramatic version cannot be dated, but was completed by 1913.
Warner, Val. “New Light on Charlotte Mew”. PN Review, Vol.
24
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 43-7.
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It did not reach production in CM 's lifetime, but the BBC presented it in 1953 as a half-hour radio drama.
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983.
309
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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 Kathleen Nott
A version of Offenbach 's comic opera Bluebeard was broadcast on BBC radio , adapted from the original by KN and Ernst Schoen , with a narrator to explain to listeners the plot and situations...
Performance of text Ruth Pitter
RP made her first appearance on a BBC radio programme in 1946, and quickly became a standby. From radio she proceeded to television, as a regular member from 1956 to 1960 of the team on...
Performance of text Margiad Evans
ME 's talk on epilepsy was broadcast in the Silver Lining series on the BBC Light Programme.
Dearnley, Moira. Margiad Evans. University of Wales Press, 1982.
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Performance of text Daisy Ashford
In July 1919, DA did a reading of a chapter of the book at a private party, which went better than anticipated, despite her nerves. She was offered an opportunity to do a lecture tour...

Timeline

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.
Crown, Sarah. “The Week in Books”. The Guardian, 27 June 2009, p. Review 5.
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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.
“Suffragette Voices”. BBC, Woman’s Hour, 27 Oct. 2009.

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, 6 Oct. 2010.

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