“Children of the Whitsun Weddings”. BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature.
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Publishing | Caryl Churchill | The Royal Court acted speedily, getting the play on stage the month after it was written, at equal speed, in response to the simultaneous incursion of Israel into the Gaza Strip. Tickets were free, but... |
Textual Production | Caryl Churchill | CC
's unpublished manuscripts are held at the University of Bristol
(Women's Theatre Archive, Department of Drama). The National Sound Archive
at the British Library
holds tape recordings of stage and radio plays. Radio play... |
Textual Production | Kate Clanchy | BBC Radio 3
broadcast readings and discussion by KC
and working-class poet Paul Farley
of poems by Philip Larkin
based on train travel around Larkinland and conversation with some of its denizens. |
Employer | Gillian Clarke | |
Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Leonard Woolf's decision proved a mistake. The book was not only praised to the skies by young, advanced reviewers, but also made the secondary Book of the Month for May by the newly-formed Book Society |
Textual Production | Ivy Compton-Burnett | The BBC
did a pre-publication adaptation by Christopher Sykes
: before the book appeared ICB
's friend Elizabeth Taylor
called it the new short BBC novel. Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen. 63 Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton. 244 |
Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Elizabeth Taylor
detailed the interest that attended this book's appearance. Published on a Monday, it was broadcast as a radio play on Wednesday, discussed on radio on Thursday by Daniel George
(who called the author... |
Textual Features | Catherine Cookson | In the particularly teasingly titled Go Tell It to Mrs. Golightly, 1977, a blind girl staying with her grandfather discovers a kidnapping. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Jones, Kathleen. Catherine Cookson: The Biography. Constable. 272 |
Textual Production | Catherine Cookson | By the late 1980s, when she was past eighty herself and in precarious health, CC
had become an industry that supported a vast empire, with hundreds of people dependent on her for their livelihood. This... |
Textual Production | Wendy Cope | WC
's radio play Shall I Call Thee Bard? A Portrait of Jason Strugnell was broadcast by BBC
Radio 3. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Textual Features | Wendy Cope | |
Textual Features | Wendy Cope | The title punctures its own potential pretentiousness with reference to The Archers, the much-loved BBC
radio serial of country life. Cope's prose style, like her poetry, is dialogic and punchy. When she gave up... |
Textual Production | Jeni Couzyn | The acknowledgements reveal the author's involvement with a rich mix of cultural activities. The opening poem, This is my house (two stanzas of seven short lines), was commissioned for a documentary film of the same... |
Performance of text | Richmal Crompton | The BBC
filmed a play entitled Just William for television. The play was based on RC
's William books, and was then playing at the Granville Theatre
in Fulham. “William; Just William”. BBC: Guide to Comedy. |
Reception | Richmal Crompton | Critics were unfailingly enthusiastic, and the William books (with their US editions and European translations) were distributed and translated widely. Williams, Kay. Just Richmal. Genesis. 140 |
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