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Textual Production Virginia Woolf
VW broadcast in a BBC series called Words Fail Me a talk with the title Craftsmanship; however, she used her talk to attack the title as wholly inappropriate to the use of words.
Woolf, Virginia. The Death of the Moth. Hogarth Press.
126ff
Textual Production Agatha Christie
The origin of the stage play was a radio play. Elizabeth Jenkins tells a story that this was based on the actual killing of a war evacuee by the farmer with whom he and his...
Textual Production Rose Macaulay
RM was a hard-working critic, reviewer, and journalist. From the 1920s into the second world war she wrote for Time and Tide, The Spectator, and the New Statesman among other publications.
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray.
206-7, 239
Textual Production Una Marson
Marson initially approached T. S. Eliot to write the preface, but he refused, so she turned to L. A. G. Strong , a British writer and a colleague at the BBC . She dedicated the...
Textual Production Naomi Alderman
Another generically unusual work by NA is the script for a mini-drama filmed in Italy for the BBC , La Mappa Misteriosa, which is designed for anglophone listeners seeking to learn Italian. The players...
Textual Production Kathleen Jamie
KJ has written scripts for radio programmes, like The Whale Road, about the arches made of whale bones which stand here and there in Britain (BBC Radio 3 , 2008), and Norn But...
Textual Production Iris Murdoch
She had finished it in January that year, and dedicated it to John Simopoulos , a Greek friend who was gay. It was adapted for television (BBC2 ) by Reg Gadney in 1982.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins.
418, 421, 471
Textual Production Elizabeth Gaskell
There were nine editions of Cranford during EG 's lifetime, but another 160 appeared between her death and 1947 (almost as many in the USA as in Britain), and it appeared twice in German translations...
Textual Production Stevie Smith
SS recorded a series of three programmes entitled Poems and Drawings, which was broadcast by the BBC .
Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber.
206, 231
Textual Production Olivia Manning
After her return to England she sometimes wrote for the BBC (with which her husband was now a producer), providing scripts for the long-running serial Mrs. Dale's Diary, one number in the series A...
Textual Production Buchi Emecheta
In 1987 BE published Family Bargain, a book for schoolchildren commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation .
Olendorf, Donna, editor. Something About the Author 66. Gale Research.
66
Contemporary Literary Criticism. Gale Research.
128: 54
Textual Production Anne Ridler
She was commissioned to write this play both by the vicar of St Mary's Church inOxford, and by the BBC Third Programme. It was performed at St Mary's (the UniversityChurch, and the actual scene...
Textual Production Alison Fell
The National Library of Scotland holds a collection of AF 's diaries, notebooks, and drafts of poems, novels, plays, and radio and film scripts, audio recordings, programmes for BBC Radio Scotland , letters, and photos...
Textual Production E. Nesbit
H. R. Millar did another set of illustrations for the book, somewhat derivative of those of Pryse.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
343
Because sales were disappointing, EN decided to advertise the book through what would now be called an...
Textual Production Jackie Kay
JK continues to publish stories in periodicals: for instance Wish I was here, commissioned for Guardian, 2 August 2003.
Kay, Jackie. “Wish I was here”. Guardian Weekly, pp. 50-3.
50
This story was broadcast on the BBC 's Radio Three during the same month.
Kay, Jackie. “Short story endings”. Mslexia, Vol.
20
, pp. 44-5.
45

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8 May 1945: This day, the one following the formal, unconditional...

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8 May 1945

This day, the one following the formal, unconditional German surrender to the Allies at Rheims in France, was called V. E. Day or VE Day.

Late 1945: André Deutsch established the publishing...

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Late 1945

André Deutsch established the publishing firm Allan Wingate in Great Cumberland Street, London.

3 September 1945: The Forces Educational Broadcasts began on...

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3 September 1945

The Forces Educational Broadcasts began on BBC radio.

4 March 1946: The BBC broadcast the first Housewives' Choice...

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4 March 1946

The BBC broadcast the first Housewives' Choice programme.

24 March 1946: Alistair Cooke made his first Letter from...

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24 March 1946

Alistair Cooke made his first Letter from America broadcast for the BBC . This series was meant to run for thirteen weeks, but when its last new instalment aired on 20 February 2004 it was...

7 June 1946: The BBC television service resumed after...

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7 June 1946

The BBC television service resumed after the war.

8 June 1946: Britain's Victory Parade marking the end...

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8 June 1946

Britain's Victory Parade marking the end of the Second World War was televised by the BBC .

7 July 1946: BBC television broadcast to children for...

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7 July 1946

BBC television broadcast to children for the first time, in For the Children.

29 September 1946: The BBC's Third Programme began radio br...

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29 September 1946

The BBC 's Third Programme began radio broadcasting.

7 October 1946: The BBC first broadcast a new programme:...

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7 October 1946

The BBC first broadcast a new programme: Woman's Hour. (It succeeded to a short-lived Women's Hour, first broadcast on 2 May 1923.)

6 February 1947: The Fourteen-Day Rule was formalized in Britain,...

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6 February 1947

The Fourteen-Day Rule was formalized in Britain, by which no bill coming before parliament within the next two weeks was to be discussed on the BBC .

6 November 1947: Designed for Women with Jeanne Heal was first...

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6 November 1947

Designed for Women with Jeanne Heal was first aired on BBC television.

20 November 1947: Princess Elizabeth married the Duke of Edinburgh;...

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20 November 1947

Princess Elizabeth married the Duke of Edinburgh ; BBC radio broadcast the wedding service, and BBC television covered the procession as well.

1948: Leading obstetrician and gynaecologist Josephine...

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1948

Leading obstetrician and gynaecologist Josephine Barnes gave great offence with a series of talks on BBC radio about women's health. Subjects like bleeding, ovaries, and hormonal changes were deemed unfit for airing in public.

1948: Leading obstetrician and gynaecologist Josephine...

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1948

Leading obstetrician and gynaecologist Josephine Barnes gave great offence with a series of talks on BBC radio about women's health. Subjects like bleeding, ovaries, and hormonal changes were deemed unfit for airing in public.

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