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Occupation | P. D. James | 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... |
Occupation | Freya Stark | After an August 1933 massacre of Assyrian civilians by the Iraqi Army, FS
was in demand as an authority on Iraq. She spoke at the BBC
, the Forum
, and the Royal Central Asia Society |
Occupation | Germaine Greer | |
Occupation | Una Marson | |
Occupation | Una Marson | UM
made a series of influential radio broadcasts for the BBC
's West Indian Service on the Women's Institute
movement in Britain. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press. 154, 156n50 |
Occupation | Storm Jameson | In her autobiography Jameson also briefly mentions compiling a report on women in munitions factories for the Ministry of Supply
at this time. She spoke on the BBC
at least once, in a radio address... |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
gave their first broadcast for the BBC
—a talk entitled Are Too Many Books Written and Published? Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 565 |
Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
served as a Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation
. She writes first that notice of the appointment came in December 1932, but twice later that she served from 1 January 1932. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 280, 288, 295 Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 280, 288, 295 |
Occupation | Berta Ruck | Television was proposed to her doubtfully as a medium so new to me, Ruck, Berta. An Asset to Wales. Hutchinson. 184 |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | VW
broadcast again, on her own, in 1937. Part of her broadcast (a reading of her essay Craftsmanship) is in the National Sound Archive of the British Library
(M7060). The only extant recording of... |
Occupation | Barbara Pym | 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... |
Occupation | Irene Handl | She was still working in the last year of her life, when she played another spiritualist medium role in Never Say Day, which was shown on BBC
Channel Four. |
Occupation | Mary Kingsley | MK
helped to initiate the Royal African Society
, which was founded in her name in 1901 just after her death. Today the Society's website offers a biography and some striking pictures of MK
... |
Occupation | Viola Meynell | |
Occupation | Maureen Duffy | She also participated in debates in the 1950s and 1960s on homosexual law reform in Britain. At the time when the 1967 Sexual Offences Act became law, she discussed the BBC
2 television documentary... |
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