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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 Elizabeth Jennings
The Leamington Poetry Society published a 4-page leaflet (plus cover) of EJ 's poems, titled with her name, in March 1987.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Twelve years later the British Council published an audiocassette of poetry which features her...
Performance of text Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS 's retelling of the Nativity, He That Should Come, was broadcast on the BBC 's Children's Hour.
Brabazon, James. Dorothy L. Sayers. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1981.
171, 191
Gilbert, Colleen B. A Bibliography of the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers. Macmillan, 1978.
96-7
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 Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS 's cycle of plays on the life of Christ, The Man Born to be King, was broadcast on the BBC .
Gilbert, Colleen B. A Bibliography of the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers. Macmillan, 1978.
102
Performance of text Mary Stewart
One of MS 's four radio plays written this year (or this and the previous year), Lift from a Stranger, was broadcast on BBC radio.
Friedman, Lenemaja. Mary Stewart. Twayne Publishers, 1990.
127
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Other Life Event E. Arnot Robertson
On 27 September 1946 MGM complained to the BBC about an allegedly hostile review by EAR . This led her to a court battle. The High Court awarded her £1,500 in libel damages, but on...
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...
Occupation Virginia Woolf
VW broadcast again, on her own, in 1937. Part of her broadcast (a reading of her essay Craftsmanship) is in the National Sound Archive of the British Library (M7060). The only extant recording of...
Occupation Barbara Pym
This work had an impact on her own writing, which continued to be her primary focus. Hazel Holt observes that she was a capable and conscientious editor but had no real interest in Africa as...
Occupation Una Marson
UM 's groundbreaking radio programme, Caribbean Voices, was first broadcast on the BBC 's West Indian Service, where it ran for fifteen years.
Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998.
158
Occupation Una Marson
UM made a series of influential radio broadcasts for the BBC 's West Indian Service on the Women's Institute movement in Britain.
Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998.
154, 156n50
Occupation Selima Hill
SH ran adventure playgrounds, an Adult Education Centre creche, and a children's rights workshop. She worked for the National Childbirth Trust , and also spent some time working in bookshops. In 1991, she held a...
Occupation Freya Stark
After an August 1933 massacre of Assyrian civilians by the Iraqi Army, FS was in demand as an authority on Iraq. She spoke at the BBC , the Forum , and the Royal Central Asia Society
Occupation Rumer Godden
In Autumn 1973 RG moved on from reading poetry for children on BBC radio to organising the same thing live, working with two young actors, first at libraries in London and then touring the country.
Godden, Rumer. A House with Four Rooms. Macmillan, 1989.
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