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Textual Production Elizabeth von Arnim
A month-long holiday that EA took near Rapallo with her friends Maud Ritchie and Mary Mallet provided the inspiration for this book. It has seen many theatrical and movie versions. Campbell Kane rewrote it as...
Textual Production Mary Wesley
It appeared exactly a year after she had finished the first draft (working title Period Piece) and put away the manuscript (written in ink on paper of A4 size, with lines but without margins)...
Textual Production Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ wrote a play as a vehicle for her friend Baliol Holloway , in which he collaborated with her, supplying the theatrical expertise and especially his sense of stage timing. He played Charles II in...
Textual Production Hilary Mantel
Within not much more than a year of publication this novel had sold more than 65,000 copies, overturning its author's feeling of having always been a very modest seller.
Taylor, Debbie. “Hilary Mantel”. Mslexia, No. 30, pp. 46-8.
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Of a proposed BBC adaptation...
Textual Production Sybille Bedford
Into this work, SB wrote later, she threw herself with a compound of conviction and self-doubt.
Bedford, Sybille. Jigsaw. Penguin.
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Its sources were, besides the different narrating talents of her parents, the indiscretions of tutors and servants, the...
Textual Production E. M. Delafield
EMD also had several plays produced by BBC radio .
McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne.
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Textual Production E. Arnot Robertson
EAR published stories in The Passing Show and Lilliput (from which one, Peace Comes to a Ministry, was selected by Kaye Webb for inclusion in the anthology Lilliput Goes to War, 1985). Over...
Textual Production Irene Handl
These were IR's only books. She also wrote for radio and contributed the introduction to The Listening Corner Storybook, published for the BBC in 1985.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Deborah Levy
DL has also written dramatic adaptations for BBC radio of others' work: of Chance Acquaintances by Colette , of Unless by Carol Shields , and of Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca , the last...
Textual Production Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
Following a silent film of 1928 entitled The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (from the novel of the same title, 1922), Orczy and Julia Neilson gave permission for the filming of the work by London Film Productions
Textual Production Harold Pinter
Pinter began this work as a radio play. The BBC archives hold a scene-by-scene plan he made for it, plus statements about overall themes and purpose. This plan was rejected in November 1958, but later...
Textual Production Muriel Spark
An Author's Note says that both stories and plays were written on the same creative wavelength,
Spark, Muriel. Voices At Play. Penguin.
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whether addressing the inner or outer ear. Rayner Heppenstall of the BBCThird Programme suggested that MS should...
Textual Production Elizabeth Jennings
She also joined with fellow-writers in letters to the Times on matters of public concern. She joined with forty well-known names (including Pamela Hansford Johnson ) on 25 September 1969 to defend keeping up the...
Textual Production Josephine Tey
Gordon Daviot (also known as JT ) published a volume of eight one-act plays (of which all but one had been broadcast on BBC Radio during the Second World War), Leith Sands, and Other Short Plays.
Henderson, Jennifer Morag. Josephine Tey, a life. Sandstone Press.
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Roy, Sandra. Josephine Tey. Twayne.
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Textual Production Shelagh Delaney
BBC television ran The House that Jack Built, a six-part series written by SD about the marriage of a couple the author describes as a cowboy and a madonna.
Cunningham, John. “The Salford Madonna”. The Guardian.

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16 January 1929: The Listener began publication; it has been...

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16 January 1929

The Listener began publication; it has been said that it did more for the new 'thirties poetry in Britain than any of the specialized poetry magazines.

July 1929: J. B. Priestley published his novel The Good...

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July 1929

J. B. Priestley published his novelThe Good Companions, which became a best-seller and made his name.

21 January 1930: King George V's speech from the House of...

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21 January 1930

King George V 's speech from the House of Lords opening the London Naval Conference was broadcast by the BBC to several countries around the world.

May 1930: Factory-produced television sets (the Baird...

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May 1930

Factory-produced television sets (the Bairdtelevisor) went on sale for 25 guineas in the UK.

14 July 1930: The first televised play was broadcast by...

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14 July 1930

The first televised play was broadcast by the BBC : Lance Sieveking and Sydney Moseley 's production of Pirandello 's experimental The Man with the Flower in his Mouth.

4 December 1931: The BBC announced the resignation of Hilda...

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4 December 1931

The BBC announced the resignation of Hilda Matheson , its director of talks, which she had actually submitted in October. This was the climax of a long-running struggle over a series of talks by Harold Nicolson

1932: The BBC adopted a policy restricting their...

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1932

The BBC adopted a policy restricting their employment of married women.

2 May 1932: Broadcasting House at Portland Place, London,...

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2 May 1932

Broadcasting House at Portland Place, London, opened as home of the British Broadcasting Corporation .

19 December 1932: The BBC launched the Empire Service; this...

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19 December 1932

The BBC launched the Empire Service; this developed into the World Service , broadcasting around the world.

28 July 1933: Sheila Borrett became the BBC's first female...

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28 July 1933

Sheila Borrett became the BBC 's first female radio announcer.

21 August 1933: The BBC news was first read by a woman announcer;...

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21 August 1933

The BBC news was first read by a woman announcer; the practice was soon discontinued.

29 November 1934: BBC radio presented its first broadcast of...

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29 November 1934

BBC radio presented its first broadcast of a royal wedding ceremony (the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina ) from Westminster Abbey.

20 January 1936: King George V died and Edward VIII assumed...

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20 January 1936

King George V died and Edward VIII assumed the throne; he broadcast a message to the Empire the same day from the BBC 's headquarters, Broadcasting House.

31 August 1936: Elizabeth Cowell became the BBC's first female...

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31 August 1936

Elizabeth Cowell became the BBC 's first female television announcer.

2 November 1936: The BBC began the world's first regular public...

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2 November 1936

The BBC began the world's first regular public television service from Alexandra Palace in London.

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