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Occupation | Jean Binta Breeze | After appearing on the BBC
programme New Voices in 1988, Breeze became involved with the British film, television, and theatre industries. In the 1990s alone, she contributed to television programmes, wrote two plays, and wrote... |
Occupation | Caryl Churchill | While CC
was attending Oxford University, a student production of one of her plays brought her into contact with an agent, Margaret Ramsay
, who encouraged her to write for radio. From 1962 to the... |
Other Life Event | E. Arnot Robertson | |
Other Life Event | Jean Rhys | An actress, Selma vas Diaz
, had adapted Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight as a radio play and needed her permission to perform it for a BBC
broadcast. A public performance had already been set for... |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Jennings | The Leamington Poetry Society
published a 4-page leaflet (plus cover) of EJ
's poems, titled with her name, in March 1987. |
Performance of text | Timberlake Wertenbaker | TW
's radio play Scenes of Seduction was broadcast on BBC Radio 4
. British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com. |
Performance of text | Hilary Mantel | HM
read her contribution to BBC Radio 4
's Talking to Myself, in which authors address their earlier selves: a letter to herself at the age of seven, excerpted from her Giving Up the Ghost. “Talking to Myself”. BBC Radio 4. |
Performance of text | Margiad Evans | After this ME
worked on a never-completed novel called The Widower's Tale, set in a forest community on the English side of the Welsh border in the later nineteenth century. She received an advance... |
Performance of text | Dorothy L. Sayers | |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | This play reached print the same year. Its origins lay in the story of a Jewish friend of Pinter's from Hackney who married a gentile, emigrated, and kept his marriage secret from his family. Hall |
Performance of text | Hilary Mantel | HM
's short-story volume Learning to Talk was published to coincide with a dramatisation of the stories on BBC Radio 4
's Woman's Hour and to follow closely on the publication of Giving Up the Ghost. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Performance of text | Meiling Jin | It was read on BBC Radio 4
in August 1997. |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | The plays were heard on BBC radio
in 1968, while awaiting a licence for the stage. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | E. J. Scovell | This volume, titled from the space that gives depth to a landscape, Scovell, E. J. The Space Between. Secker and Warburg. 70 |
Performance of text | Michelene Wandor | Her radio play entitled The Courtier, the Prince and the Lady, drawing from Machiavelli
and Castiglione
with music from the Renaissance composer Josquin Desprez
and his contemporaries, was produced by Piers Plowright
for BBC Radio 3 |
Timeline
3 November 1956: Prime Minister Anthony Eden made one of a...
National or international item
3 November 1956
Prime Minister Anthony Eden
made one of a series of ministerial broadcasts on the recent Suez crisis, which was covered by BBC
television and ITV
as well as the BBC
radio service at home and...
24 September 1957: BBC television for schools began broadca...
Building item
24 September 1957
BBC
television for schools began broadcasting.
21 April 1958: Margery Fry died as almost a national celebrity:...
Building item
21 April 1958
Margery Fry
died as almost a national celebrity: criminal justice reformer, prison reformer, campaigner for victims' compensation, educationalist (briefly Principal of Somerville College
), writer on children's care and development, and latterly broadcaster (a regular...
14 July 1958: The BBC transmitted its first live television...
National or international item
14 July 1958
The BBC
transmitted its first live television broadcast from Africa via Eurovision
: coverage of Bastille Day in Algiers.
4 November 1958: BBC television broadcast the coronation of...
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4 November 1958
Up to 8 October 1959: The BBC for the first time gave coverage...
National or international item
Up to 8 October 1959
The BBC
for the first time gave coverage in its news broadcasts to a General Election campaign.
20 June 1960: Nan Winton became the first woman reader...
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20 June 1960
Nan Winton
became the first woman reader of television network news on the BBC
.
25 December 1960: Queen Elizabeth II's first pre-recorded Christmas...
National or international item
25 December 1960
Queen Elizabeth II
's first pre-recorded Christmas message was broadcast on BBC
television.
1962: Publisher John Calder and writer's widow...
Writing climate item
1962
Publisher John Calder
and writer's widow Sonia Orwell
together organised at Edinburgh the first, highly successful Writers' Conference.
15 January 1963: The BBC removed its ban preventing comedy...
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15 January 1963
The BBC
removed its ban preventing comedy programmes from discussing politics, sex, religion, or royalty.
New Year's Day 1964: The popular and long-running BBC programme...
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New Year's Day 1964
The popular and long-running BBC
programme Top of the Pops was launched The presenter was Jimmy Savile
, who years later was posthumously disgraced as a paedophile.
O’Hagan, Andrew. “Light Entertainment”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 21, pp. 5-8. 7
1965: Peter Watson's The War Game, a television...
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1965
Peter Watson
's The War Game, a television film which imagines conditions in Britain in the aftermath of a nuclear attack, was withdrawn by the BBC
in response to government pressure.
16 December 1966: The BBC screened its famous Wednesday play...
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16 December 1966
The BBC
screened its famous Wednesday playCathy Come Home, a drama about a homeless family written by Jeremy Sandford
(husband of Nell Dunn
), produced by Tony Garnett
, and directed by Ken Loach
.
1967: The BBC began the first regular colour television...
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1967
The BBC
began the first regular colour television service in Europe.
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