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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...

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...

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...

The Rainy Summer exemplifies her lively descriptions of landscape; it ends, Bees, humming in the storm, carry their cold / Wild honey to cold cells.Philip Larkin chose this poem (his only selection from...

Correspondents represented in the volume include Freya Stark , as well as Bernard Shaw , Siegfried Sassoon , and Walter de la Mare . This volume was adapted for television by the BBC in 1988, without crediting VM .

She used her own theatre experience, and the ballet experience of a sister. The book (whose full title was Ballet Shoes, A story of three children on the stage) was illustrated by the author's...

She had already written a televised version of her own Pig-Heart Boy (shown by the BBC on 7 December 1999) and several episodes each for the tv series Byker Grove and Whizziwig (of which only...

In July 1970 ML conducted two televised interviews for the BBC with Archbishop Anthony Bloom on the topic of God and Man. These were published the following year in Bloom's book of the same...

It was originally written as a radio play for the BBC , but was never aired. With action set in the First World War and the 1920s, it may have been written then or at...

RT places her stories (as she indicates in the preliminary pages of Evangelista's Fan) in various venues before collecting them in volumes. Some have been read on BBC radio, some printed in newspapers like...

SH began reviewing books for Time and Tide as an undergraduate. After taking her degree she spent five years as book-review editor for the Coventry Evening Telegraph before returning to fiction. By the mid-1960s she...

While working as a translator for the Council of Europe , JOF also set out, at her father's urging, to write professionally. Later, however, she felt she had made a false start as a writer...

Other radio plays that MW has written about women writers include An Uncommon Love, based on Hannah Cullwick 's relationship with Arthur Munby , A Consoling Blue, about Jean Rhys 's writing of...

Absent from the volume is Miramar, a poem about her mother, and the difficult relationship they had while the poet was in her teens. This is available on the BBC World Service website.

BB did an interview with Christopher Cook for the BBC World Service , which is available on the internet from their Audio Interviews series.