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Wealth and Poverty Barbara Pym
By the date of her retirement, Pym's annual salary was a low £1,764. She and her sister Hilary lived on this and on Hilary's income as a BBC producer. Pym's books had at this date...
Travel Rumer Godden
In early October 1994 RG flew to Delhi for a final visit to India, travelling with a BBC crew to make a film about her life for the programme Bookmark. They went to Kashmir...
Travel Ella K. Maillart
They had a permit for the early part of their journey, and relied on the inaccessability of later stages to protect them from unwelcome official notice.
Ella Maillart. http://www.ellamaillart.ch/index_en.php.
Their route, which lay through the remote province of...
Travel Freya Stark
She continued to travel extensively over the subsequent decades, occasionally with the BBC and other film crews, and more often with her various godchildren (among whom she was known to favour her godsons).
Travel Elizabeth Bowen
This house had enormous sash windows, pouring in light . . . . a groundwork of timeless elegance and beauty.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson.
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The move (made because of her husband's new job with the BBC ) meant...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Agnes Hamilton
Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad,
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
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MAH gives a long, evocative first chapter to her parents and her childhood. She adds...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Kennedy
In The Heroes of Clone Kennedy uses a present-day frame story, and the different interpretations of twentieth-century commentators, to present a mid-Victorian woman writer, Dorothea Harding, who used a frame story to convey a tale...
Textual Production Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
She included essays previously published in Time and Tide about her travels to far-off places such as Gibraltar, Morocco, Greece, Egypt, and the holy places of the earth:
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. Notes on the Way. Books for Libraries Press.
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Palestine...
Textual Production Shelagh Delaney
BBC Radio 4 broadcast SD 's play Whoopi Goldberg's Country Life, which has nothing to do with US writer Whoopi Goldberg , but is a sequel to Delaney's Country Life, 2004.
“Afternoon Play. Whoopi Goldberg’s Country Life”. BBC Radio 4.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Evelyn Glover
Between 1927 and 1934, EG had several short pieces broadcast over BBC radio.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
under Evelyn Glover
Textual Production Marghanita Laski
With Claud Cockburn , Cyril Connolly , Kenneth Tynan , Peter Forster , Wynford Vaughan Thomas , and Steven Watson , ML co-wrote the script for the BBC television comedy series Dig This Rhubarb.
Lewisohn, Mark. “Dig This Rhubarb”. The bbc.co.uk Guide to Comedy.
Textual Production Deborah Moggach
DM published her twelfth novel, Close Relations, for which she also wrote the screenplay when it became a highly successful and slightly scandalous BBC television serial.
The title Close Relations has been used by...
Textual Production Michèle Roberts
MR judged, and commented on, this magazine's competition for new short stories in summer 2016.
Graffigny, Françoise de. The Peruvian Letters . . . . With An Additional Original Volume. Translator Roberts, Radagunda, Vol.
2 vols
, T. Cadell.
She contributes regularly to the BBC 's Woman's Hour and to its arts-and-ideas programme Night Waves. She has written...
Textual Production Alison Uttley
AU 's radio play about Mary Queen of Scots was broadcast by the BBC , which had also been airing readings of some of her stories.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph.
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Textual Production Maureen Duffy
Her life with Behn had begun in 1973 or early 1974, she wrote later, after she had taken an honours degree in English without ever hearing Behn's existence hinted at.
Duffy, Maureen. “My Life with Aphra Behn”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 2.
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She was stunned by...

Timeline

21 November 1748: John Cleland published the first volume of...

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21 November 1748

John Cleland published the first volume of his soft-porn novelFanny Hill.

14 November 1922: Daily wireless (radio) broadcasting began...

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14 November 1922

Daily wireless (radio) broadcasting began in Britain from the London station of the British Broadcasting Company (later the British Broadcasting Corporation ).

14 November 1922: Daily wireless (radio) broadcasting began...

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14 November 1922

Daily wireless (radio) broadcasting began in Britain from the London station of the British Broadcasting Company (later the British Broadcasting Corporation ).

5 December 1922: Children's Hour was first broadcast on the...

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5 December 1922

Children's Hour was first broadcast on the BBC .

24 December 1922: The first play written for radio, Phyllis...

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24 December 1922

The first play written for radio, Phyllis Twigg 's The Truth About Father Christmas, was broadcast in the UK by the BBC .

13 February 1923: The BBC opened a radio station at Cardiff,...

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13 February 1923

The BBC opened a radio station at Cardiff, Wales; it made its first broadcast in Welsh on 8 November.

2 May 1923: Under the supervision of Margaret Bondfield...

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2 May 1923

Under the supervision of Margaret Bondfield and the Women's Advisory Committee , the BBC 's radio programme Women's Hour began its two-year run.

11 July 1923: With a radio programme about film, the BBC...

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11 July 1923

With a radio programme about film, the BBC began its first broadcasts of arts criticism.

28 September 1923: The BBC released the first issue of the Radio...

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28 September 1923

The BBC released the first issue of the Radio Times, a weekly publication providing information and programme listings.

31 December 1923: The chimes of Big Ben were first broadcast...

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31 December 1923

The chimes of Big Ben were first broadcast on the BBC to usher in the New Year.

31 January 1924: The BBC presented the first broadcast story,...

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31 January 1924

The BBC presented the first broadcast story, by A. J. Alan (pseudonym of Leslie H. Lambert ).

5 February 1924: The BBC began broadcasting the Greenwich...

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5 February 1924

The BBC began broadcasting the Greenwich time signal.

6 March 1924: The BBC presented the first broadcast poetry...

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6 March 1924

The BBC presented the first broadcast poetry reading, by the poet John Drinkwater .

4 April 1924: The BBC began its national radio broadcasts...

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4 April 1924

The BBC began its national radio broadcasts to schools, with an item by Sir Walford Davies .

23 April 1924: The British Empire Exhibition opened at Wembley...

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23 April 1924

The British Empire Exhibition opened at Wembley with a speech by King George V —his first broadcast speech on the BBC .

Texts

BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
The Listener. BBC.
Aiken, Joan, and Quentin Blake. Arabel’s Raven. BBC, 1972.
Brophy, Brigid. Pussy Owl. BBC, 1976.
Westcott, Kathryn. “The Day the World Lit Up”. BBC News, BBC.
White, Antonia. BBC at War. BBC, 1942.