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Textual Production Naomi Alderman
NA says this book was facilitated by the success of fictions about other, distinct communities: Zadie Smith 's White Teeth, Monica Ali 's Brick Lane, and especially influenced by Jeanette Winterson 's Oranges...
Textual Production Catherine Cookson
By the late 1980s, when she was past eighty herself and in precarious health, CC had become an industry that supported a vast empire, with hundreds of people dependent on her for their livelihood. This...
Textual Production Timberlake Wertenbaker
Writing for these genres as well as for the stage, TW often revisits and reshapes the work of earlier writers. She wrote the screenplay for The Children, a Film Four International production (1990) adapted...
Textual Production Teresa Deevy
This reached print the year after it was performed, in the Dublin Magazine. It played in Cork in 1939, opening on 6 November. A television film made from it was broadcast by the BBC
Textual Production Jackie Kay
The collection, dedicated to JK 's adoptive mother, was published by Bloodaxe Books in Newcastle upon Tyne, with a photograph of human chromosomes on the cover.
Kay, Jackie. The Adoption Papers. Bloodaxe Books.
prelims
Kay, Jackie. Off Colour. Bloodaxe Books.
back cover
BBC Radio 3 had broadcast...
Textual Production Nancy Mitford
It was televised by the BBC during winter 2000-1.
Textual Production Phyllis Bottome
The BBC commissioned PB to prepare a script to be transmitted to North America on the Democracy Marches radio programme.
Calder, Robert. Beware the British Serpent. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
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Textual Production Rose Tremain
About the time of publication this book was read on BBC radio as A Book at Bedtime.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Production Anne Devlin
The opening instalment of AD 's three-part television adaptation of D. H. Lawrence 's novel The Rainbow was first aired on BBC One .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Textual Production Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
Following a silent film of 1928 entitled The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (from the novel of the same title, 1922), Orczy and Julia Neilson gave permission for the filming of the work by London Film Productions
Textual Production Naomi Alderman
She also wrote Borrowed Time, 2011, a novel which is a spin-off from the BBC 's Doctor Who series, which she regards as fan fiction.
Armitstead, Claire. “Naomi Alderman. A life in . . ”. theguardian.com.
In it the doctor and his helpers go undercover...
Textual Production Wendy Cope
WC 's radio play Shall I Call Thee Bard? A Portrait of Jason Strugnell was broadcast by BBC Radio 3.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
The opening words of the title pun on a question addressed by Wordsworth to the...
Textual Production Mary Wesley
It appeared exactly a year after she had finished the first draft (working title Period Piece) and put away the manuscript (written in ink on paper of A4 size, with lines but without margins)...
Textual Production Hilary Mantel
Within not much more than a year of publication this novel had sold more than 65,000 copies, overturning its author's feeling of having always been a very modest seller.
Taylor, Debbie. “Hilary Mantel”. Mslexia, No. 30, pp. 46-8.
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Of a proposed BBC adaptation...
Textual Production Nina Bawden
It was made into a film for BBC television.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

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1940: Ivy Benson, an accomplished and later famous...

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1940

Ivy Benson , an accomplished and later famous musician trained at the Leeds College of Art , established the group Ivy Benson and Her All-Girl Band.

7 January 1940: BBC radio's Forces Programme began....

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7 January 1940

BBC radio's Forces Programme began.

19 May 1940: Winston Churchill made his first BBC radio...

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19 May 1940

Winston Churchill made his first BBC radio broadcast as wartime coalition Prime Minister.

18 June 1940: Winston Churchill made his famous This was...

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18 June 1940

Winston Churchill made his famous This was their finest hour . . . broadcast on BBC radio.

13 October 1940: Princess Elizabeth made her first BBC radio...

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13 October 1940

Princess Elizabeth made her first BBC radio broadcast, directed to children of the Empire.

15 October 1940: A delayed-action bomb exploded in the BBC's...

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15 October 1940

A delayed-action bomb exploded in the BBC 's Broadcasting House during the 9 o'clock news, killing seven staff-members.

8 December 1940: A land mine caused severe damage to BBC's...

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8 December 1940

A land mine caused severe damage to BBC 's Broadcasting House.

1 January 1941: BBC radio's Brains' Trust (at first called...

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1 January 1941

BBC radio's Brains' Trust (at first called Any Questions) began.

10 May 1941: During the final, most destructive raid of...

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10 May 1941

During the final, most destructive raid of the Blitz, Queen's Hall was completely demolished by bombs and the BBC studios at Maida Vale received a direct hit from a high-explosive bomb.

22 June 1941: Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union (named...

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22 June 1941

Hitler 's invasion of the Soviet Union (named Operation Barbarossa, and in contravention of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact of 23 August 1939) began with a surprise attack at dawn which destroyed a thousand Soviet planes...

9 November 1941: The BBC forces' programme Sincerely Yours,...

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9 November 1941

The BBC forces' programme Sincerely Yours, Vera Lynn began broadcasting.

22 March 1942: The BBC transmitted its first daily news...

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22 March 1942

The BBC transmitted its first daily news bulletin in Morse code (in English and various other languages) to Resistance troops in Europe.

2 November 1942: The BBC's French service for Canada bega...

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2 November 1942

The BBC 's French service for Canada began.

3 April 1943: The BBC's programme Saturday Night Theatre...

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3 April 1943

The BBC 's programme Saturday Night Theatre began.

6 June 1944: On this day, known as D-Day (and postponed...

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6 June 1944

On this day, known as D-Day (and postponed a day because of bad weather), 155,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy. The airborne armada, nine planes wide and stretching for 200 miles, carried British, Canadian...

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