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Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Josephine Tey | Tey's novel was made into a BBC
television movie in 1986. It was also the unacknowledged basis for the 1963 film Paranoiac, directed by Freddie Francis
. Tey, Josephine. Brat Farrar. Penguin. front cover |
Reception | Josephine Tey | |
Textual Production | Josephine Tey | Gordon Daviot
(also known as JT
) published a volume of eight one-act plays (of which all but one had been broadcast on BBC
Radio during the Second World War), Leith Sands, and Other Short Plays. Henderson, Jennifer Morag. Josephine Tey, a life. Sandstone Press. 225 Roy, Sandra. Josephine Tey. Twayne. 25 |
Reception | Rosemary Sutcliff | The TLS review pronounced that RS
had steadily improved at her craft, but that the book under review still had drawbacks: over-sweetness of writing and some sentimentality in the personal relationships. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2755 (19 November 1954): 748 |
Occupation | Jan Struther | Her broadcasting career did not end with the war, but continued sporadically in the USA and even occasionally in England with the BBC
. Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray. 265 |
Dedications | Noel Streatfeild | NS
published in book form The Bell Family, illustrated by Shirley Hughes
and dedicated to Josephine Plummer
, who had produced her series of the same name on the BBC
radio programme Children's Hour in 1949-51. Streatfeild, Noel, and Shirley Hughes. The Bell Family. Collins. prelims Wilson, Barbara Ker. Noel Streatfeild. Bodley Head. 28 Huse, Nancy. Noel Streatfeild. Twayne. 107 |
Publishing | Noel Streatfeild | In 2004 this book was broadcast serially on BBC Radio 4
. Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/. |
Textual Production | Noel Streatfeild | She used her own theatre experience, and the ballet experience of a sister. The book (whose full title was Ballet Shoes, A story of three children on the stage) was illustrated by the author's... |
Textual Production | Ray Strachey | RS
was a prolific essayist who regularly wrote for many American and British publications, including The Nation and Athenæum, The Spectator, The Daily Mail, The Observer, and the New York Evening... |
Textual Features | Lesley Storm | This play effectively portrays the aftermath in Britain of the defection of Guy Burgess
and Donald Maclean
, who fled to the Soviet Union on 25 May 1951 after years of spying for Communist
Russia... |
Performance of text | Mary Stewart | |
Reception | Mary Stewart | The novel was adapted for television in 1991 when the BBC
filmed six episodes, which were then released together on video as Merlin of the Crystal Cave. The series was directed by Michael Darlow |
Textual Production | Anne Stevenson | Correspondences by AS
was published both by Wesleyan University Press
and Oxford University Press
. Stevenson, Anne. Selected Poems, 1956-1986. Oxford University Press. 149 |
Textual Production | G. B. Stern | GBS
often broadcast on the BBC
. She reviewed books, and later remembered an encounter with an old typescript of a review of A. E. Gallatin
's Sir Max Beerbohm
—Bibliographical Notes, 1944, during... |
Textual Production | G. B. Stern | GBS
did her writing early in the day: sometimes before breakfast, always from ten to one. Stern, G. B. Trumpet Voluntary. Cassell. 51 |
Timeline
1940: Ivy Benson, an accomplished and later famous...
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1940
Ivy Benson
, an accomplished and later famous musician trained at the Leeds College of Art
, established the group Ivy Benson and Her All-Girl Band.
7 January 1940: BBC radio's Forces Programme began....
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7 January 1940
BBC
radio's Forces Programme began.
19 May 1940: Winston Churchill made his first BBC radio...
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19 May 1940
Winston Churchill
made his first BBC
radio broadcast as wartime coalition Prime Minister.
18 June 1940: Winston Churchill made his famous This was...
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18 June 1940
13 October 1940: Princess Elizabeth made her first BBC radio...
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13 October 1940
15 October 1940: A delayed-action bomb exploded in the BBC's...
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15 October 1940
A delayed-action bomb exploded in the BBC
's Broadcasting House during the 9 o'clock news, killing seven staff-members.
8 December 1940: A land mine caused severe damage to BBC's...
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8 December 1940
A land mine caused severe damage to BBC
's Broadcasting House.
1 January 1941: BBC radio's Brains' Trust (at first called...
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1 January 1941
BBC
radio's Brains' Trust (at first called Any Questions) began.
10 May 1941: During the final, most destructive raid of...
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10 May 1941
During the final, most destructive raid of the Blitz, Queen's Hall was completely demolished by bombs and the BBC studios at Maida Vale received a direct hit from a high-explosive bomb.
22 June 1941: Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union (named...
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22 June 1941
Hitler
's invasion of the Soviet Union (named Operation Barbarossa, and in contravention of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact of 23 August 1939) began with a surprise attack at dawn which destroyed a thousand Soviet planes...
22 March 1942: The BBC transmitted its first daily news...
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22 March 1942
The BBC
transmitted its first daily news bulletin in Morse code (in English and various other languages) to Resistance troops in Europe.
2 November 1942: The BBC's French service for Canada bega...
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2 November 1942
The BBC
's French service for Canada began.
3 April 1943: The BBC's programme Saturday Night Theatre...
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3 April 1943
The BBC
's programme Saturday Night Theatre began.
6 June 1944: On this day, known as D-Day (and postponed...
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6 June 1944
On this day, known as D-Day (and postponed a day because of bad weather), 155,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy. The airborne armada, nine planes wide and stretching for 200 miles, carried British, Canadian...
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