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Textual Production E. Arnot Robertson
EAR made her first BBC broadcast, Travel and Yachting on English Rivers, and was also heard in unrehearsed debate on issues of gender with Rose Macaulay .
Mason, Edward J., and Tony Shryane. “My Word! (1956-1990)”. Radio Days: Whirligig: 1950’s British Radio Nostalgia.
Devlin, Polly, and E. Arnot Robertson. “Introduction”. Four Frightened People, Virago, p. vii - xix.
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Textual Production Irene Handl
These were IR's only books. She also wrote for radio and contributed the introduction to The Listening Corner Storybook, published for the BBC in 1985.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Deborah Levy
DL has also written dramatic adaptations for BBC radio of others' work: of Chance Acquaintances by Colette , of Unless by Carol Shields , and of Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca , the last...
Textual Production Winsome Pinnock
For radio WP wrote a play called Her Father's Daughter, 1998, and adapted the short story Let Them Call It Jazz by Jean Rhys (dramatization 1997), the novel Indiana by George Sand (1832; BBC Radio Four
Textual Production Elizabeth von Arnim
A month-long holiday that EA took near Rapallo with her friends Maud Ritchie and Mary Mallet provided the inspiration for this book. It has seen many theatrical and movie versions. Campbell Kane rewrote it as...
Textual Production Elizabeth Jenkins
EJ wrote a play as a vehicle for her friend Baliol Holloway , in which he collaborated with her, supplying the theatrical expertise and especially his sense of stage timing. He played Charles II in...
Textual Production Katherine Mansfield
Scholar Claire Tomalin suspects that this refusal had to do with KM 's unacknowledged debt to Chekhov in The Child-Who-Was-Tired.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Mansfield was, however, feeling discouraged about all her work. In February, with The Garden...
Textual Production Shelagh Delaney
BBC television ran The House that Jack Built, a six-part series written by SD about the marriage of a couple the author describes as a cowboy and a madonna.
Cunningham, John. “The Salford Madonna”. The Guardian.
Textual Production Rose Tremain
BBC Radio 4 broadcast RT 's play One Night In Winter.
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Textual Production Maureen Duffy
This novel was filmed for television by the BBC in 1988 as First Born.
Duffy, Maureen. The Microcosm. Virago.
prelims
Textual Production Frances Ridley Havergal
The most common theme of FRH 's poetry and hymns is an unswerving devotion to God, whom she generally refers to as The King or The Master. Her most popular hymns include Take My...
Textual Production Ann Oakley
It was televised by the BBC amid much media hyperbole.
Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo.
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A paperback appeared in 1989, and another ten years later.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Cochrane, Kira. “Ann Oakley: ’Barbara Wootton was too visionary’”. theguardian.com.
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
Gardens of Eden, MW 's radio play based on her own poems, was aired in 1987 on BBC Radio 4 with music by Michael Nyman .
Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
Textual Production Winsome Pinnock
Later the same year she featured in Lenny Henry 's ten-part BBC documentary series Raising The Bar: 100 Years Of Black British Theatre And Screen (along with historical figures like Una Marson ). She also...
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...

Timeline

16 January 1929: The Listener began publication; it has been...

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16 January 1929

The Listener began publication; it has been said that it did more for the new 'thirties poetry in Britain than any of the specialized poetry magazines.

July 1929: J. B. Priestley published his novel The Good...

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July 1929

J. B. Priestley published his novelThe Good Companions, which became a best-seller and made his name.

21 January 1930: King George V's speech from the House of...

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21 January 1930

King George V 's speech from the House of Lords opening the London Naval Conference was broadcast by the BBC to several countries around the world.

May 1930: Factory-produced television sets (the Baird...

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May 1930

Factory-produced television sets (the Bairdtelevisor) went on sale for 25 guineas in the UK.

14 July 1930: The first televised play was broadcast by...

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14 July 1930

The first televised play was broadcast by the BBC : Lance Sieveking and Sydney Moseley 's production of Pirandello 's experimental The Man with the Flower in his Mouth.

4 December 1931: The BBC announced the resignation of Hilda...

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4 December 1931

The BBC announced the resignation of Hilda Matheson , its director of talks, which she had actually submitted in October. This was the climax of a long-running struggle over a series of talks by Harold Nicolson

1932: The BBC adopted a policy restricting their...

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1932

The BBC adopted a policy restricting their employment of married women.

2 May 1932: Broadcasting House at Portland Place, London,...

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2 May 1932

Broadcasting House at Portland Place, London, opened as home of the British Broadcasting Corporation .

19 December 1932: The BBC launched the Empire Service; this...

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19 December 1932

The BBC launched the Empire Service; this developed into the World Service , broadcasting around the world.

28 July 1933: Sheila Borrett became the BBC's first female...

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28 July 1933

Sheila Borrett became the BBC 's first female radio announcer.

21 August 1933: The BBC news was first read by a woman announcer;...

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21 August 1933

The BBC news was first read by a woman announcer; the practice was soon discontinued.

29 November 1934: BBC radio presented its first broadcast of...

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29 November 1934

BBC radio presented its first broadcast of a royal wedding ceremony (the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina ) from Westminster Abbey.

20 January 1936: King George V died and Edward VIII assumed...

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20 January 1936

King George V died and Edward VIII assumed the throne; he broadcast a message to the Empire the same day from the BBC 's headquarters, Broadcasting House.

31 August 1936: Elizabeth Cowell became the BBC's first female...

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31 August 1936

Elizabeth Cowell became the BBC 's first female television announcer.

2 November 1936: The BBC began the world's first regular public...

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2 November 1936

The BBC began the world's first regular public television service from Alexandra Palace in London.

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