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The tithe campaign, which ran down with the onset of the Second World War, was recalled in a BBC programme in the series Yesterday's Witness in May 1972, written by Janet Hitchman , in which...

As to gender politics, though she admired the suffragists and felt strongly about women's rights, she thought of herself not as a woman writer but as a writer who happened to be a woman, and...

Weldon wrote a fighting speech for the awards ceremony, protesting .about publishers' treatment of authors. She claimed later to have shown it ahead of time to the organisers, but I suppose they hadn't bothered to...

Guest-editing the BBC 's Today programme at almost ninety, PDJ openly accused the director-general of dumbing down.

VT broadcast on literary topics for La France libre via the BBC . This work earned her the Légion d'Honneur , awarded in 1950.

CH gave a BBC radio broadcast on the twenty-fifth anniversary (which fell this year) of women's attainment of the vote.

UM began a series of radio broadcasts from BBCLondon intended to boost the morale of West Indian troops.

DDM , who published throughout the middle years of the twentieth century, was primarily a novelist, though she wrote non-fiction—biography, plays, and screenplays—as well. Her work was adapted into film and television by such esteemed...

A poet whose career began in the later twentieth century, CB has published six volumes of poetry, one semi-autobiograpical prose narrative, two autobiographical essays, poetry reviews, and a series of online collaborations combining poetry and...

RM was highly prolific, publishing during the earlier half of the twentieth century twenty-three novels and two volumes of poetry, as well as three books of short stories, several historical and travel narratives, and works...

EG began her writing career by contributing several comic, polemical sketches to the suffrage cause. These one-act plays seek to demonstrate the relevance of the suffrage movement to working-class women. During the First World War...

The BBC published BB 's single children's book, Pussy Owl, with illustrations by Hilary Hayton . The stories which make up the book had been told on the BBC children's programme Jackanory.

Just after war was declared in September 1939 RF wrote to The Times suggest that the BBC should broadcast the opinions of ordinary people in neutral countries. She quoted comments she had herself recently heard...

The Royal Court acted speedily, getting the play on stage the month after it was written, at equal speed, in response to the simultaneous incursion of Israel into the Gaza Strip. Tickets were free, but...

This volume includes what its author calls the dreaded Sometimes, a poem which has proved so popular as to be almost an embarrassment. Discussed on a BBC Radio 4 programme, The Secret Life of...