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Textual Production Margery Allingham
While she was working on Dance of the Years, in March 1942, MA spoke on the BBC Overseas Service about the changes wartime was making in traditional village life. (She had been named as...
Textual Production Jeni Couzyn
The acknowledgements reveal the author's involvement with a rich mix of cultural activities. The opening poem, This is my house (two stanzas of seven short lines), was commissioned for a documentary film of the same...
Textual Production Penelope Fitzgerald
PF published her fourth novel, Human Voices, which draws on her years working at the BBC in London during the Second World War.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
Harvey-Wood, Harriet. “Penelope Fitzgerald”. The Guardian, p. 22.
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Textual Production Shena Mackay
This brings together the contents of her three previous volumes of stories (putting those from the latest volume first), and adds two uncollected stories (one of them commissioned for BBC Radio 4 , 1993).
Mackay, Shena. Collected Short Stories. Penguin.
ii
Textual Production Elizabeth Jenkins
The book was entitled Dr. Gully's Story in the USA.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Between portraying one of the leading characters in Six Criminal Women and composing the book (which she called a novel), EJ had written about...
Textual Production Harold Pinter
Writing for radio (the 6 Third Programme , precursor of Radio Three ), television, and West End revues (put on by Michael Codron ) turned out to be a lifeline for Pinter after the failure...
Textual Production E. M. Delafield
The play (a dramatised version of The Way Things Are) ran for almost six months in London and was also produced in New York.
Delafield, E. M., and Nicola Beauman. The Diary of a Provincial Lady. Virago.
prelims
McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne.
119
BBC radio aired a version in September 1931.
Powell, Violet. The Life of a Provincial Lady. Heinemann.
151
Textual Production Maureen Duffy
One Goodnight, the first of MD 's two radio plays about the Irish writers Edith Somerville and Martin Ross , aired on the BBC .
“The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association.
Textual Production Andrea Levy
AL has had her short fiction read on BBC Radio 4 .
Hickman, Christie. “Andrea Levy: Under the skin of history”. The Independent.
Her story Deborah appeared in volume 7 of the British Council 's New Writing, 1998, alongside far more established names. Loose Change...
Textual Production Buchi Emecheta
The work was published in adapted form as a novel in 1986 in Macmillan 's Pacesetters Series. BE has written other plays produced on television, including Tanya, a Black Woman, for the BBC
Textual Production Elspeth Huxley
In later years EH was a frequent member, in sessions of six weeks at a time, of the panel on the BBC 's The Critics, for which on 20 August 1954 she reviewed Eudora Welty
Textual Production Marina Warner
MW published Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time, a collection of six essays originally broadcast on radio earlier that year as the annual BBC Reith lectures.
Moseley, Merritt, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 194. Gale Research.
194: 286
Textual Production Elizabeth von Arnim
A month-long holiday that EA took near Rapallo with her friends Maud Ritchie and Mary Mallet provided the inspiration for this book. It has seen many theatrical and movie versions. Campbell Kane rewrote it as...
Textual Production Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ wrote a play as a vehicle for her friend Baliol Holloway , in which he collaborated with her, supplying the theatrical expertise and especially his sense of stage timing. He played Charles II in...
Textual Production Sybille Bedford
Into this work, SB wrote later, she threw herself with a compound of conviction and self-doubt.
Bedford, Sybille. Jigsaw. Penguin.
ix
Its sources were, besides the different narrating talents of her parents, the indiscretions of tutors and servants, the...

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19 May 1924: The BBC radio made the first broadcast of...

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19 May 1924

The BBC radio made the first broadcast of the song of a nightingale.

12 June 1924: Compton Mackenzie presented the first disc-jockey...

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12 June 1924

Compton Mackenzie presented the first disc-jockey programme on BBC radio.

15 September 1924: The BBC began broadcasting in Belfast, Northern...

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15 September 1924

The BBC began broadcasting in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

3 October 1924: The BBC radio presented its first outside...

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3 October 1924

The BBC radio presented its first outside broadcast, from London Zoo.

13 October 1924: The BBC broadcast its first election address:...

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13 October 1924

The BBC broadcast its first election address: Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald speaking at a mass meeting in Glasgow.

1925: An article in Punch coined the term middle-brow...

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1925

An article in Punch coined the term middle-brow (on analogy with highbrow) for people who are hoping that someday they will get used to the stuff they ought to like.
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 303-31.
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17 July 1925: The Radio Supplement was first issued by...

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17 July 1925

The Radio Supplement was first issued by the BBC .

16 November 1925-13 March 1926: Alan Cobham and his crew made the first round-trip...

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16 November 1925-13 March 1926

Alan Cobham and his crew made the first round-trip flight from London to Cape Town.

1926: The BBC set up an Advisory Committee on Spoken...

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1926

The BBC set up an Advisory Committee on Spoken English, with the aim of enforcing uniformity and eliminating the use of regional accents.

26 May 1926: The BBC for the first time broadcast speeches...

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26 May 1926

The BBC for the first time broadcast speeches from the House of Lords .

Saturday 19 June 1926: About a hundred thousand participants of...

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Saturday 19 June 1926

About a hundred thousand participants of the Peacemakers' Pilgrimage (all wearing blue armbands showing the white dove of peace and the word Pax) converged on Hyde Park in London.

By October 1926: The BBC named Hilda Matheson as its first...

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By October 1926

The BBC named Hilda Matheson as its first Director of Talks, one of the most highly paid jobs for a woman in any organisation at that time,
Carney, Michael. Stoker. Published by the author.
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as her biographer puts it.

31 December 1926-1 January 1927: The British Broadcasting Company was dissolved...

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31 December 1926-1 January 1927

The British Broadcasting Company was dissolved and the British Broadcasting Corporation was constituted under Royal Charter for ten years.

1927: The BBC's first female governor, Ethel Snowden,...

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1927

The BBC 's first female governor, Ethel Snowden , was appointed.

25 April 1928: Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer,...

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25 April 1928

Winston Churchill , Chancellor of the Exchequer, made the first budget speech to be broadcast on the BBC .

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