Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001.
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BBC
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Samuel Beckett | Following several other love-affairs (the earliest with a cousin, Peggy Sinclair
, who died young in 1933), SB
shared his life from about this time with pianist Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil
, whom he married in 1961... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
seems to have first met Hilda Matheson
just before the latter took over the role of central player in Vita Sackville-West
's love-life. But Matheson (director of talks for the BBC
, soon to... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Somerville | Some commentators have argued that theirs was a lesbian, sexual relationship, and some that it was not. It was the subject of the radio play One Goodnight by Maureen Duffy
, broadcast by the BBC |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | The writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm
was VT
's uncle. A son of her grandfather's second marriage, he retained the original surname. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm
was IT
's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Shelagh Delaney | SD
chose April Fools' Day to announce her daughter's birth to the press. The Daily Mail reported that she recently made a chain-smoking appearance on BBC television and that in February 1963 she admitted to... |
| Fictionalization | Naomi Jacob | BBC
radio aired a play by Harold Lang
and Kenneth Tynan
, The Quest for Corbett, in which NJ
played the lead role as Aphra Corbett, a preposterous woman writer modelled on herself. |
| Fictionalization | Sir J. M. Barrie | Honours were showered upon Barrie in his later days. He was created a baronet in 1913 and awarded the Order of Merit in 1920. A number of universities honoured him, and in 1928 he became... |
| Fictionalization | Emmeline Pankhurst | June Purvis
traces the influence on EP
's reputation of the relations between her daughters. Sylvia
, estranged from her mother, portrayed her in The Suffragette Movement (1931, influentially reprinted in 1977) as a lost... |
| Fictionalization | Mary Seacole | Scholars of colonial discourse such as Simon Gikandi have found in her newly available narrative an avenue for exploring the complexity of the colonial subject's construction of identity, against whom to read better-known Victorian women... |
| Fictionalization | Anne Lister | It was in connection with her immediate or recent reputation that AL
was allegedly fictionalised both in Brontë
's Shirley and Rosa Kettle
's The Mistress of Langdale Hall, 1872. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Friends, Associates | Charlotte Dempster | Isabella Elder was the widow of John Elder
, a famous Glasgow shipbuilder. When he died in 1869 he left her a fortune; she used it to buy and donate Northpark House in Glasgow as... |
| Friends, Associates | Rumer Godden | RG
preserved her friendship with the director Jean Renoir
from the time that he filmed her novel The River. After moving to Highgate she became friendly with the writer Stevie Smith
(whom she calls... |
| Friends, Associates | Antonia White | While working for the Special Operations ExecutivePolitical Intelligence Department
, AW
met Graham Greene
, Simone Weil
, and Kathleen Raine
. Chitty, Susan. Now To My Mother. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1985. 137 |
| Friends, Associates | Rose Macaulay | Through correspondence RM
became a life-long friend of Gilbert Murray
, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford
, and Chairman of the Executive of the League of Nations Union
. He was fifteen years her... |
Timeline
8 December 1936: The BBC for the first time televised a full-length...
Building item
8 December 1936
The BBC
for the first time televised a full-length ballet: William Walton
's Façade (derived from Edith Sitwell
) with Margot Fonteyn
and Robert Helpmann
.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
372
9 December 1936: BBC television broadcast its first cookery...
Building item
9 December 1936
BBC
television broadcast its first cookery demonstration: Moira Meighn
presented meals cookable in fifteen minutes on a single burner.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
373
12 May 1937: The coronation of King George VI became the...
National or international item
12 May 1937
The coronation of King George VI
became the first outside broadcast by the BBC
Television Service.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
238
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
373
Pedersen, Susan. “Sam, Caroline, Janet, Stella, Len, Helen, and Bob”. London Review of Books, Vol.
39
, No. 18, 21 Sept. 2017, pp. 19-22. 20
21 June 1937: The Wimbledon tennis tournament was televised...
Building item
21 June 1937
The Wimbledon tennis tournament was televised for the first time, by the BBC
.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
373
11 November 1937: The BBC made its first television broadcast...
National or international item
11 November 1937
The BBC
made its first television broadcast of the Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
373
1938: BBC radio began a broadcasting service to...
National or international item
1938
BBC
radio began a broadcasting service to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and countries throughout Europe, which ran until 1943.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
238-9
3 January 1938: The BBC's first foreign-language service...
National or international item
3 January 1938
The BBC
's first foreign-language service (in Arabic) began.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
373
16 November 1938: The BBC televised for the first time a play...
National or international item
16 November 1938
The BBC
televised for the first time a play direct from the theatre, J. B. Priestley
's When We Are Married.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
374
23 November 1938: The BBC televised underwater scenes for the...
National or international item
23 November 1938
The BBC
televised underwater scenes for the first time, during a training session for divers.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
374
24 May 1939: BBC television presented the first high-definition...
National or international item
24 May 1939
BBC
television presented the first high-definition coverage of the Derby at Epsom.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
374
23 August 1939: The BBC's London Calling was first broad...
National or international item
23 August 1939
The BBC
's London Calling was first broadcast.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
374
1 September 1939: The BBC television service was stopped for...
National or international item
1 September 1939
The BBC
television service was stopped for reasons of national defence.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
238
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
374
3 September 1939: Britain and France officially declared war...
National or international item
3 September 1939
Britain and France officially declared war on Germany.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
238
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
374
Mitchison, Naomi. Among You Taking Notes . . . The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison 1939-1945. Editor Sheridan, Dorothy, Oxford University Press, 1986.
35-7
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
44-7, 54
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
22-3
Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987.
311
19 September 1939: The BBC radio series It's That Man Again...
Building item
19 September 1939
The BBC
radio series It's That Man Again began: known as, and pronounced as, ITMA, and ridiculing the alleged doings of Adolf Hitler
, it became immensely popular.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
386
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