BBC

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
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
reprints poems from three anthologies (Ten Oxford Poets, 1977, New Poems: 1961, and The Guinness Book of Poetry...
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
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 Meiling Jin
It was read on BBC Radio 4 in August 1997.
Performance of text Zoë Fairbairns
ZF 's radio play The Belgian Nurse was broadcast on BBC Radio Four .
Fairbairns, Zoë. “Radio”. 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
The volume appeared in paperback from Abacus in 1984.
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 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 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 Catherine Byron
Some of these poems had already appeared in journals such as Poetry Ireland Review and Lines Review. Some had already been aired on Poetry Now, a BBC radio programme.
Byron, Catherine. Settlements; &, Samhain. Loxwood Stoneleigh.
prelims
In 1994 CB
Performance of text Helen Dunmore
Throughout the 1980s HD gave many readings of her works: at literary festivals, and at schools, colleges, libraries, clubs, and prisons. Her poetry was also featured on BBC radio (several different programmes) and television. As...
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 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

Timeline

May 2009: The BBC aimed to demonstrate that poetry...

Writing climate item

May 2009

The BBC aimed to demonstrate that poetry is for everyone in a series launched this month: it succeeded in that sales of poetry soared in Britain.

Late October 2009: The BBC first opened to the public its sound...

Building item

Late October 2009

The BBC first opened to the public its sound archive entitled Suffragette Voices.

6 October 2010: A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes,...

Writing climate item

6 October 2010

A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes , Last Letter, became available to the public when it was read on the BBC 's Channel 4 News by Jonathan Pryce .
Kennedy, Maev. “Unknown poem reveals Ted Hughes’ torment over death of Sylvia Plath”. The Guardian.

Texts

No bibliographical results available.