Fairbairns, Zoë. “Radio”. Zoë Fairbairns.
BBC
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Performance of text | Zoë Fairbairns | |
Performance of text | Shena Mackay | Three of these stories had been read on BBC Radio 3
in 1982. Mackay, Shena. Collected Short Stories. Penguin. vii, viii British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Performance of text | Michelene Wandor | Since the early 1990s, MW
has turned her attention to music. Her libretti and radio plays include works based on poems by John Cornford
, John Milton
, and Ariosto
: Spain, first performed... |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | A recording of this sketch was broadcast by BBC Radio 3
the following day. It appeared in print in Harold Pinter Plays 4, 2012. “Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)”. doollee.com: Playwrights. |
Performance of text | Sarah Daniels | A commission from Caroline Raphael
, then head of Radio 5
, resulted in SD
's original radio play Purple Side Coasters, broadcast on BBC Radio 4
on 16 November 1995 and dealing with post-natal depression. Aston, Elaine, and Geraldine Harris. Performance Practice and Process: Contemporary (Women) Practitioners. Palgrave Macmillan. 86 Bull, John, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 245. Gale Research. 114-15 |
Performance of text | Germaine Greer | The BBC
's Broadcasting Support Services
published a transcription of a discussion about education by a group of women journalists and writers moderated by GG
: The Last Word (IV) Dated from the Bodleian Library
acquisitions stamp. Greer, Germaine, editor. The Last Word. BBC Broadcasting Support Services. 3 |
Performance of text | Helen Dunmore | HD
's first radio play, The Mironov Legacy, a dramatisation of actual historical material, was broadcast as BBC Radio Four
's Afternoon Play. Dunmore, Helen. Helen Dunmore. http://www.helendunmore.com/index.asp. |
Performance of text | Jean Rhys | Selma vas Diaz
performed her dramatic monologue adapted from JR
's novel Good Morning, Midnight, with music by Roberto Gerhard
, on the BBC
's Third Programme. Mellown, Elgin W. Jean Rhys: A Descriptive and Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Garland. 151 |
Performance of text | Catherine Byron | |
Performance of text | Helen Dunmore | |
Performance of text | Ruth Padel | RP
has broadcast programmes of her own on BBC Radio 3
and Radio 4
about the work of composers, scientists, and writers. She chose the title Close Encounters for a series of interval talks about... |
Performance of text | Ruth Padel | The earliest stories that RP
mentions on her website are two that appeared in journals in 2001: Tigersex in the Dublin Review in May and The Last Tiger in Prospect Magazine in September. We're So... |
Performance of text | Ruth Pitter | |
Performance of text | Sylvia Kantaris | Most of the poems were written in Cornwall, which is a strong presence in the volume. Many had already appeared in periodicals: in Australia, Spain, and in the Anglo-Welsh Review as well... |
Performance of text | Elizabeth Ham |
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21 June 1969: Queen Elizabeth II and her family, in tune...
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21 June 1969
Queen Elizabeth II
and her family, in tune with the lowering of boundaries of the time period, provided the BBC
unprecedented access to their lives for the documentary The Royal Family.
10 April 1974: The Annan Committee began work on its enquiry...
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10 April 1974
The Annan Committee
began work on its enquiry into the structure, funding, and future of British broadcasting.
5 November 1974: Shirley Gee's first radio play, Stones, was...
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5 November 1974
1976: Angela Rippon became the first woman newsreader...
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1976
Angela Rippon
became the first woman newsreader on British television (BBC
); the job lasted only six years, though she acquired an enthusiastic public.
By 11 October 1976: More people in Britain held licences for...
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By 11 October 1976
More people in Britain held licences for colour television sets than for black and white: the licence fee continued, to fund the BBC
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28 February 1977: Moonshine, a play by Shirley Gee, was produced...
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28 February 1977
16 August 1979: BBC Radio 4 broadcast Shirley Gee's Bedr...
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16 August 1979
1980: Shirley Gee's Typhoid Mary was included in...
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1980
Shirley Gee
's Typhoid Mary was included in the BBC
's Best Radio Plays of 1979: The Giles Cooper Award Winners.
16 October 1987: In the early hours of the morning a violent...
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16 October 1987
In the early hours of the morning a violent storm battered the south of England, with winds reaching a hundred kilometres an hour in some places.
24 May 1988: The Local Government Act came into force...
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24 May 1988
The Local Government Act came into force in Britain, containing the highly controversial section 28, forbidding local authorities from promoting homosexuality.
1991: The Listener, founded early in 1929 as the...
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1991
The Listener, founded early in 1929 as the journal of the BBC
, ceased publication.
22 April 1993: Young white thugs made an unprovoked knife...
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22 April 1993
Young white thugs made an unprovoked knife attack on a Black teenager, Stephen Lawrence
, and a friend with whom he was waiting at a bus-stop in Eltham, south-east London. The pair ran, but Stephen...
16 June 2003: A BBC television quiz programme, The Professionals...
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16 June 2003
A BBC
television quiz programme, The Professionals (successor to University Challenge), which pits against each other teams of journalists, meteorologists, psychiatrists or whatever, fielded a team of poets.
10 September 2003: Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of...
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10 September 2003
Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of the Week a website entitled Poetry Landmarks of Britain: a map of poetic assocations plotted on an interactive map of Britain, searchable by region or category.
20 June 2006: The BBC cancelled its flagship pop music...
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20 June 2006
The BBC
cancelled its flagship pop music programme, Top of the Pops, after forty-two years on the air.
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