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NJ made an additional career as a public lecturer; without any specialist expertise, she could express confident and articulate opinions on a wide range of topics. She was a regular and outspoken contributor to the...

SD considered she had never enjoyed anything so much as collaborative work on the BBC World Service radio soap Westway (in work broadcast in November 1997). This involved six writers driving the producers mad...

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...

Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad,MAH gives a long, evocative first chapter to her parents and her childhood. She adds...

In The Heroes of Clone Kennedy uses a present-day frame story, and the different interpretations of twentieth-century commentators, to present a mid-Victorian woman writer, Dorothea Harding, who used a frame story to convey a tale...

They had a permit for the early part of their journey, and relied on the inaccessability of later stages to protect them from unwelcome official notice. Their route, which lay through the remote province of...

She continued to travel extensively over the subsequent decades, occasionally with the BBC and other film crews, and more often with her various godchildren (among whom she was known to favour her godsons).

This house had enormous sash windows, pouring in light . . . . a groundwork of timeless elegance and beauty. The move (made because of her husband's new job with the BBC ) meant...

In early October 1994 RG flew to Delhi for a final visit to India, travelling with a BBC crew to make a film about her life for the programme Bookmark. They went to Kashmir...

By the date of her retirement, Pym's annual salary was a low £1,764. She and her sister Hilary lived on this and on Hilary's income as a BBC producer. Pym's books had at this date...