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Textual Production Dorothy Wellesley
The selection was made in conjunction with BBC staff for a series of readings that autumn; it consisted of the work of poets born (so far as could be ascertained) since 1880, and therefore under...
Textual Production Noel Streatfeild
She used her own theatre experience, and the ballet experience of a sister. The book (whose full title was Ballet Shoes, A story of three children on the stage) was illustrated by the author's...
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 Susan Miles
It was originally written as a radio play for the BBC , but was never aired.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
With action set in the First World War and the 1920s, it may have been written then or at...
Textual Production Rose Tremain
RT places her stories (as she indicates in the preliminary pages of Evangelista's Fan) in various venues before collecting them in volumes. Some have been read on BBC radio, some printed in newspapers like...
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...
Textual Production Julia O'Faolain
While working as a translator for the Council of Europe , JOF also set out, at her father's urging, to write professionally. Later, however, she felt she had made a false start as a writer...
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
Other radio plays that MW has written about women writers include An Uncommon Love, based on Hannah Cullwick 's relationship with Arthur Munby , A Consoling Blue, about Jean Rhys 's writing of...
Textual Production Caryl Churchill
Churchill thought of The Ants as a television play when she wrote it, but her agent sensibly sent it to radio.
Churchill, Caryl. Plays: One. Methuen.
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Between 1962 and 1973 CC wrote a number of short radio plays that...
Textual Production Naomi Jacob
A few months after her death, NJ 's Me—Thinking Things Over appeared in print, collecting her talks broadcast on the BBC 's Woman's Hour.
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin).
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Textual Production Sarah Daniels
SD has also written for radio (especially) and for television. Because she needed the money, she became a scriptwriter for two popular and successful BBC tv series: Grange Hill (set in a comprehensive school and...
Textual Production F. Tennyson Jesse
In 1948 FTJ and her husband adapted the novel as a play, which opened in London at the New Boltons Theatre Club in May 1951. The novel was produced as a talking book in 1953...
Textual Production Phyllis Bentley
Inheritance was a huge success: it sold 20,000 copies by July 1932, and within a year had gone through ten editions; in time it was translated into eight languages. It was broadcast serially on the...

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8 December 1936: The BBC for the first time televised a full-length...

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8 December 1936

The BBC for the first time televised a full-length ballet: William Walton 's Façade (derived from Edith Sitwell ) with Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann .

9 December 1936: BBC television broadcast its first cookery...

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9 December 1936

BBC television broadcast its first cookery demonstration: Moira Meighn presented meals cookable in fifteen minutes on a single burner.

12 May 1937: The coronation of King George VI became the...

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12 May 1937

The coronation of King George VI became the first outside broadcast by the BBC Television Service.

21 June 1937: The Wimbledon tennis tournament was televised...

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21 June 1937

The Wimbledon tennis tournament was televised for the first time, by the BBC .

11 November 1937: The BBC made its first television broadcast...

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11 November 1937

The BBC made its first television broadcast of the Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph.

1938: BBC radio began a broadcasting service to...

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1938

BBC radio began a broadcasting service to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and countries throughout Europe, which ran until 1943.

3 January 1938: The BBC's first foreign-language service...

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3 January 1938

The BBC 's first foreign-language service (in Arabic) began.

2 April 1938: The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race was televised...

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2 April 1938

The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race was televised for the first time on the BBC .

16 November 1938: The BBC televised for the first time a play...

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16 November 1938

The BBC televised for the first time a play direct from the theatre, J. B. Priestley 's When We Are Married.

23 November 1938: The BBC televised underwater scenes for the...

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23 November 1938

The BBC televised underwater scenes for the first time, during a training session for divers.

24 May 1939: BBC television presented the first high-definition...

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24 May 1939

BBC television presented the first high-definition coverage of the Derby at Epsom.

23 August 1939: The BBC's London Calling was first broad...

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23 August 1939

The BBC 's London Calling was first broadcast.

1 September 1939: The BBC television service was stopped for...

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1 September 1939

The BBC television service was stopped for reasons of national defence.

3 September 1939: Britain and France officially declared war...

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3 September 1939

Britain and France officially declared war on Germany.

19 September 1939: The BBC radio series It's That Man Again...

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19 September 1939

The BBC radio series It's That Man Again began: known as, and pronounced as, ITMA, and ridiculing the alleged doings of Adolf Hitler , it became immensely popular.

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