Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
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Performance of text | Michelene Wandor | Her radio play entitled The Courtier, the Prince and the Lady, drawing from Machiavelli
and Castiglione
with music from the Renaissance composer Josquin Desprez
and his contemporaries, was produced by Piers Plowright
for BBC Radio 3 |
Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | This publication was one of a group of four: the others are by Zoë Fairbairns
, Valerie Miner
, and Victoria Nelson
. Three of Wandor's stories are revised from versions which appeared in Guests... |
Performance of text | Michelene Wandor | Since the early 1990s, MW
has turned her attention to music. Her libretti and radio plays include works based on poems by John Cornford
, John Milton
, and Ariosto
: Spain, first performed... |
Performance of text | Michelene Wandor | MW
's first radio play, Correspondence, about a divorcee who becomes a student, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4
. |
Performance of text | Michelene Wandor | MW
's early radio play on the life and work of Antonia White
, Dust in the Sugar House, was broadcast on the BBC
. Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/. |
Performance of text | Michelene Wandor | BBC
radio 4 broadcast MW
's radio play The Princess and the Carpenter, about the composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier
and his patroness, Marie de Guise
. Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/. |
Publishing | Michelene Wandor | BBC Radio
rejected the play when MW
submitted it to them in 1977, but decided to broadcast it in 1981 after a producer saw the stage production. The National Theatre
likewise initially rejected it, but... |
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/. |
politics | Doreen Wallace | 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... |
Health | Helen Waddell | After the war, too, she began to mention cognitive difficulties. I have been like something lost in the fog for most of the year, she wrote in November 1946, and my memory is still full... |
Textual Production | Helen Waddell | |
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 | Alison Uttley | AU
's radio play about Mary Queen of Scots
was broadcast by the BBC
, which had also been airing readings of some of her stories. Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph. 166 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Alison Uttley | |
Publishing | Alison Uttley | There followed in this series How Little Grey Rabbit Got Back Her Tail, 1930, The Great Adventure of Hare, 1931 (originally entitled Hare Goes a-Journeying), and The Story of Fuzzypeg the Hedgehog... |
Timeline
16 January 1929: The Listener began publication; it has been...
Writing climate item
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...
Writing climate item
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...
National or international item
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...
Building item
May 1930
14 July 1930: The first televised play was broadcast by...
Building item
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...
Writing climate item
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...
Building item
1932
The BBC
adopted a policy restricting their employment of married women.
2 May 1932: Broadcasting House at Portland Place, London,...
Building item
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...
Building item
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...
National or international item
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;...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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...
Building item
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...
Building item
2 November 1936
The BBC
began the world's first regular public television service from Alexandra Palace in London.
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