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The book was well received, and enhanced SP 's reputation with the general public. George Bernard Shaw praised it in a speech on the BBC in which he compared SP to Joan of Arc ...

The reviewer on the BBC Western Region found them almost unbearably poignant.

Albert Square is fictional, a place immediately recognisable to most of MD 's readers as the home of the BBC soap opera East Enders. MD impartially investigates both popular and unpopular phenomena: Boadicea and...

While she was enrolled in a magazine-writing course at the University of Toronto , CS wrote a story which to her amazement her instructor arranged to have broadcast on the CBC , and over the...

AW was given three weeks to produce a booklet about her employer, the BBC : BBC at War.

AU , whose experience of public speaking had included a lecture on Writing for Children, spoke bravely on BBC TV's Book Programme in the month of her ninety-first birthday.

Meanwhile she prepared to receive evacuees from London, and volunteered for first aid work, nursing, and night shifts with the ARP (Air Raid Precaution) . After the war she became a member both of...

By then she had appeared on a couple of the BBC 's Brains Trust series.

This work had an impact on her own writing, which continued to be her primary focus. Hazel Holt observes that she was a capable and conscientious editor but had no real interest in Africa as...

SH ran adventure playgrounds, an Adult Education Centre creche, and a children's rights workshop. She worked for the National Childbirth Trust , and also spent some time working in bookshops. In 1991, she held a...

In Autumn 1973 RG moved on from reading poetry for children on BBC radio to organising the same thing live, working with two young actors, first at libraries in London and then touring the country.

VM was invited to host a series of BBC radio broadcasts on literary figures.

During the Second World War, EAR worked as a government adviser on films. After the war she returned to reviewing films on radio. She was a broadcaster of note, particularly as a panellist on The...

She retired to become a full-time writer at the end of 1979, six months before her sixtieth birthday. Then she served as a magistrate for Willesden (1979-82) and for Inner London (1984). She has been...

Her broadcasting career did not end with the war, but continued sporadically in the USA and even occasionally in England with the BBC .