“Afternoon Play. Whoopi Goldberg’s Country Life”. BBC Radio 4.
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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 | Deborah Moggach | |
Textual Production | Michèle Roberts | MR
judged, and commented on, this magazine's competition for new short stories in summer 2016. Graffigny, Françoise de. The Peruvian Letters . . . . With An Additional Original Volume. Translator Roberts, Radagunda, Vol. 2 vols , T. Cadell. |
Textual Production | Alison Uttley | AU
's radio play about Mary Queen of Scots
was broadcast by the BBC
, which had also been airing readings of some of her stories. Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph. 166 |
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 | 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 | Bernardine Evaristo | |
Textual Production | Shena Mackay | This brings together the contents of her three previous volumes of stories (putting those from the latest volume first), and adds two uncollected stories (one of them commissioned for BBC Radio 4
, 1993). Mackay, Shena. Collected Short Stories. Penguin. ii |
Textual Production | Harold Pinter | Writing for radio (the 6 Third Programme
, precursor of Radio Three
), television, and West End revues (put on by Michael Codron
) turned out to be a lifeline for Pinter after the failure... |
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... |
Textual Production | Brigid Brophy | After John Profumo
resigned from the Cabinet on 4 June 1963 following his detection in a lie to the House of Commons
about his relationship with a prostitute, the BBC
commissioned BB
for a talk... |
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29 July 1948: The BBC broadcast a television programme...
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29 July 1948
The BBC
broadcast a television programme on the opening of the Olympic Games
from Wembley Stadium in still visibly bomb-damaged London. This was the first Olympics to be televised.
11 October 1948: The first outside BBC television broadcast...
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11 October 1948
The first outside BBC
television broadcast was made: from Number 10 Downing Street for the Commonwealth Conference
.
March 1949: Elizabeth Bowen's feature on 1918 was broadcast...
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March 1949
Elizabeth Bowen
's feature on 1918 was broadcast on the BBC
's Third Programme
series A Year I Remember.
29 July 1949: BBC television aired its first weather b...
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29 July 1949
BBC
television aired its first weather broadcast.
4 September 1949: The surface of the moon was televised by...
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4 September 1949
The surface of the moon was televised by the BBC
for the first time, through a powerful telescope.
16 January 1950: The BBC made its first broadcast of Listen...
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16 January 1950
The BBC
made its first broadcast of Listen with Mother.
23 February 1950: The General Election brought 84 percent of...
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23 February 1950
The General Election brought 84 percent of the British electorate out to vote. The BBC
aired the first televised report of results of this election.
27 August 1950: The BBC made its first live television broadcast...
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27 August 1950
The BBC
made its first live television broadcast from the Continent (from Calais) using outside broadcast equipment.
30 September 1950: The BBC aired its first live air-to-ground...
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30 September 1950
The BBC
aired its first live air-to-ground television broadcast, from an aircraft in flight.
26 October 1950: The BBC made its first sound and television...
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26 October 1950
The BBC
made its first sound and television broadcast from the House of Commons, on the occasion of the opening of the rebuilt chamber.
January 1951: The Beveridge Committee on Broadcasting reported...
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January 1951
The BeveridgeCommittee on Broadcasting
reported that the propaganda power of access through radio and television to millions of homes was too great to be allowed out of public institutional hands.
“Media quotations from official sources”. Terra Media: Quotations.
1 January 1951: After a one-week trial the previous May,...
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1 January 1951
After a one-week trial the previous May, The Archers, countryside soap-opera of BBC
radio, began regular broadcasting; it soon attracted two million listeners.
May 1951: The BBC experimentally launched a comic radio...
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May 1951
The BBC
experimentally launched a comic radio series, Crazy People; as The Goon Show, it ran for nine years and became a household word.
6 June 1951: The BBC made its first broadcast from Buckingham...
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6 June 1951
The BBC
made its first broadcast from Buckingham Palace, on the occasion of a State Banquet for King Haakon
of Norway.
4 October 1951: E. M. Forster's praise for the accomplishments...
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4 October 1951
E. M. Forster
's praise for the accomplishments of the BBC's Third Programme
was published in The Listener.
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