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Textual Production Marghanita Laski
ML felt that Kipling was undervalued as a poet by her generation, for political rather than literary reasons. She selected and edited a volume of his poems (Kipling's English History) for the BBC in 1974.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Rose Tremain
BBC Radio 4 broadcast RT 's play One Night In Winter.
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Textual Production Liz Lochhead
The BBC broadcast LL 's television play Sweet Nothings; it was published the same year.
Lochhead, Liz. True Confessions and New Clichés. Polygon Books.
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Textual Production Ann Oakley
It was televised by the BBC amid much media hyperbole.
Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo.
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A paperback appeared in 1989, and another ten years later.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Cochrane, Kira. “Ann Oakley: ’Barbara Wootton was too visionary’”. theguardian.com.
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
Gardens of Eden, MW 's radio play based on her own poems, was aired in 1987 on BBC Radio 4 with music by Michael Nyman .
Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
Textual Features Helen Dunmore
About half of these nineteen very short stories (averaging less than ten pages apiece) are reprinted from magazines—Stand, the Irish Tatler, Writing Women, London Magazine—or anthologies. Short Days, Long Nights...
Textual Features Catherine Cookson
In the particularly teasingly titled Go Tell It to Mrs. Golightly, 1977, a blind girl staying with her grandfather discovers a kidnapping.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Joe and the Gladiator was filmed for BBC television in 1971.
Jones, Kathleen. Catherine Cookson: The Biography. Constable.
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Textual Features Kathleen Jamie
This collection keeps in mind the Scots element in the title as well as the birth element. It interprets the latter broadly to include various metaphorical kinds of birth and renewal. KJ writes here in...
Textual Features Wendy Cope
Yet the casual virtuosity of this poem is a kind of consolation. WC 's assets include the power of compression and the power of brevity, sometimes Larkin esque (as in the conclusion of Bloody Men...
Textual Features Wendy Cope
The title punctures its own potential pretentiousness with reference to The Archers, the much-loved BBC radio serial of country life. Cope's prose style, like her poetry, is dialogic and punchy. When she gave up...
Textual Features Elspeth Huxley
For The Times in the 1930s her subjects included the gold rush at Kakamega in Kenya's only tropical rain forest, and New Deal farming in the American South. In March 1938 she embarked...
Textual Features Anne Ridler
The third play, The Mask was inferior as a stage play, in AR 's later judgement, to its radio version (in which she collaborated with her cousin Robin Milford , who wrote the music, and...
Textual Features Olivia Manning
The Man Who Stole a Tiger strikes a different note. It begins in Jerusalem but ranges as far as the Congo. A scrawny, tubercular soldier with a criminal record, presented without sympathy or understanding...
Textual Features Lesley Storm
This play effectively portrays the aftermath in Britain of the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean , who fled to the Soviet Union on 25 May 1951 after years of spying for Communist Russia...
Textual Features Alice Meynell
The Rainy Summer exemplifies her lively descriptions of landscape; it ends, Bees, humming in the storm, carry their cold / Wild honey to cold cells.
Larkin, Philip, editor. The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse. Clarendon Press.
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Philip Larkin chose this poem (his only selection from...

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