BBC

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
Reception Daphne Du Maurier
DDM made her first television appearance, in an interview on BBC 2 .
Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus.
379
Reception Liz Lochhead
Before she had published a collected volume of her verse, LL won a BBC Radio Scotland poetry prize for Revelation and Poem for Other Poor Fools.
Smith, Ali. “Liz Lochhead: Speaking in Her Own Voice”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-16.
13
Varty, Anne. “The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 641-58.
643-4
Reception Malorie Blackman
While Blackman's publisher was seeking a US contract for Noughts and Crosses, the terrorist attacks of 7 September made a fictional Liberation Militia into an untouchable idea. The book did not appear in the...
Reception Barbara Pym
BP 's Excellent Women was serialised for the BBC radio programme Woman's Hour; this boosted its sales considerably.
Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press.
77
Reception Mary Stewart
The novel was adapted for television in 1991 when the BBC filmed six episodes, which were then released together on video as Merlin of the Crystal Cave. The series was directed by Michael Darlow
Reception Jane Austen
The major novels have been repeatedly dramatised and filmed; the BBC has had great success with videos and DVDs of all six. They and the unfinished novels have been almost equally material for sequels, prequels...
Reception Liz Lochhead
The initial version of Mary and the Monster was not well received. LL quotes the reviewer from the Birmingham Evening News as saying I'd rather be at the dentist—to which she adds, so would...
Reception Malorie Blackman
In 2005 MB received the Eleanor Farjeon Award from the British Children's Book Circle for her body of work (then extending over fifteen years). The same year she was awarded the OBE and in 2009...
Reception U. A. Fanthorpe
UAF 's poetry was broadcast on the BBC 's Woman's Hour and selected for Poems on the Underground. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1987, a CBE in...
Reception Edith Somerville
ES 's nephew Nevill Coghill broadcast a talk about her for the BBC : she thought it beautifully done but wished he had said more about Martin Ross .
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
274-6
Reception Claire Luckham
Tremendously popular with audiences, the play was performed in several cities in Britain and internationally, besides being adapted for BBC television. In Japan, audiences saw the play as a tragedy about a woman's inability...
Reception Olivia Manning
It was a disappointment to OM when The Observer review, by Ruth Inglis , was headlined, Who is Olivia Manning?
Braybrooke, Neville, and Isobel English. Olivia Manning: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
2
Francis King , however, opened a composite review with this novel, placing it ahead...
Reception Barbara Pym
It was well reviewed by another novelist, Lady Cynthia Asquith .
Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton.
325
In a BBC radio broadcast in 1978, Pym noted that this novel had caused someone to comment upon her dislike of men, to...
Reception Enid Blyton
Derek McCulloch of the BBC , producer and presenter of Children's Hour, sent an internal memo to Lionel Gamlin reiterating that no material by EB was ever to be used.
O’Hagan, Andrew. “Light Entertainment”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 21, pp. 5-8.
5
Reception Frances Horovitz
FH 's poetry, as well as her poetry-reading for the BBC , touched many, and thousands mourned her early death. In 1984 Canto produced a cassette tape of her reading her poetry and giving an...

Texts

No bibliographical results available.