“Afternoon Play. Whoopi Goldberg’s Country Life”. BBC Radio 4.
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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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | 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. |
Textual Production | Rose Tremain | |
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. 19 , No. 2. 238 |
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. xi |
Textual Production | Naomi Jacob | |
Textual Production | Sarah Daniels | |
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.
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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