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Performance of text Ruth Padel
RP has broadcast programmes of her own on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4 about the work of composers, scientists, and writers. She chose the title Close Encounters for a series of interval talks about...
Performance of text Agatha Christie
AC had written two plays, Black Coffee (1930) and Akhnaton (written in 1937 but not published until 1973), before adapting her novel Ten Little Niggers for the stage. This opened at St James's Theatre ,...
Performance of text Elaine Feinstein
Two of these poems, Getting Older and Urban Lyric were read on BBC Radio Four 's Woman's Hour programme, and appear in the Woman's Hour 50th Anniversary Poetry Collection, 1996.
McLoughlin, Pat, editor. Woman’s Hour: 50th Anniversary Poetry Collection. Penguin.
150, 162
Performance of text Ruth Padel
The earliest stories that RP mentions on her website are two that appeared in journals in 2001: Tigersex in the Dublin Review in May and The Last Tiger in Prospect Magazine in September. We're So...
Performance of text Teresa Deevy
Its rejection was a heavy blow, since it signalled a change of attitude towards Deevy's work which had been brewing for several years.
The Teresa Deevy Archive. http://deevy.nuim.ie/.
Introduction
Wife to James Whelan was heard on BBC radio in Northern...
Performance of text Jackie Kay
Several of the poems had been broadcast on various BBC radio and television programmes, including When You Move Out on BBC Radio Four's Woman's Hour, and JK 's BBC 2 poetry documentary, Twice Through...
Performance of text Ruth Pitter
RP made her first appearance on a BBC radio programme in 1946, and quickly became a standby. From radio she proceeded to television, as a regular member from 1956 to 1960 of the team on...
Performance of text Dylan Thomas
Many of these pieces had been first broadcast on BBC radio, not including the furiously satirical How To Be a Poet but including a warm tribute to an actual poet, Wilfred Owen .
Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ .
4 November 2008
Performance of text Buchi Emecheta
BE 's teleplayA Kind of Marriage was aired by BBC Television as part of their Commonwealth Plays series.
Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann.
203, 213-14
Umeh, Marie, editor. Emerging Perspectives on Buchi Emecheta. Africa World Press.
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Performance of text Naomi Royde-Smith
A debate between NRS and Compton Mackenzie was held under the auspices of the Drama League , and broadcast live on BBC radio. Royde-Smith maintained that The Broadcast Play is an unsatisfactory Form of Art...
Performance of text Alison Fell
They then adapted it for BBC Radio 3 , which broadcast it the following month. The script is among AF 's papers.
“Inventory. Acc. 12394. Alison Fell”. National Library of Scotland.
Performance of text Teresa Deevy
Radio Éireann broadcast more of her radio plays: Dignity on 17 January 1947 and Light Falling on 9 March 1947. The latter was repeated by both BBC Northern Ireland and BBC nationally, while BBC...
Performance of text Elizabeth Bowen
EB , Graham Greene , and V. S. Pritchett read on the BBC Third Programme letters which they had exchanged about the writer's role in society.
Greene, Graham. Graham Greene. A Life in Letters. Editor Greene, Richard, Alfred A. Knopf.
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politics Olivia Manning
As to gender politics, though she admired the suffragists and felt strongly about women's rights, she thought of herself not as a woman writer but as a writer who happened to be a woman, and...
politics Doreen Wallace
The tithe campaign, which ran down with the onset of the Second World War, was recalled in a BBC programme in the series Yesterday's Witness in May 1972, written by Janet Hitchman , in which...

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