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The production was commissioned by the BBC , and took place at the Royal Festival Hall in London. It was conducted by Colin Davis , with Meriel Dickinson as soloist. The work was later...

Scholar Claire Tomalin suspects that this refusal had to do with KM 's unacknowledged debt to Chekhov in The Child-Who-Was-Tired. Mansfield was, however, feeling discouraged about all her work. In February, with The Garden...

JK continues to publish stories in periodicals: for instance Wish I was here, commissioned for Guardian, 2 August 2003. This story was broadcast on the BBC 's Radio Three during the same month.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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).

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...