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While Blackman's publisher was seeking a US contract for Noughts and Crosses, the terrorist attacks of 7 September made a fictional Liberation Militia into an untouchable idea. The book did not appear in the...

She had already written a televised version of her own Pig-Heart Boy (shown by the BBC on 7 December 1999) and several episodes each for the tv series Byker Grove and Whizziwig (of which only...

In 2005 MB received the Eleanor Farjeon Award from the British Children's Book Circle for her body of work (then extending over fifteen years). The same year she was awarded the OBE and in 2009...

EB was interviewed by Marjorie Anderson for the BBC Home Service , a programme later re-broadcast on BBC Woman's Hour.

Derek McCulloch of the BBC , producer and presenter of Children's Hour, sent an internal memo to Lionel Gamlin reiterating that no material by EB was ever to be used.

During the second world war EB 's reputation ensured her access to paper despite shortages and to her publisher's list despite the curtailment of such lists in general. She received practically no rejections of her...

The BBC commissioned PB to prepare a script to be transmitted to North America on the Democracy Marches radio programme.

The BBC approached Bottome to write propaganda to help entice America into war because of the popularity of her novels in the United States. Her script uses Disney cartoon characters to depict the two...

Cameron was Assistant Secretary for Education in Northamptonshire; he then became Secretary for Education in Oxfordshire, and later worked in schools programming for the BBC . The marriage was a surprise to his friends, who...

This house had enormous sash windows, pouring in light . . . . a groundwork of timeless elegance and beauty. The move (made because of her husband's new job with the BBC ) meant...

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.

LBL 's poem Battlefield appeared in the Listener after having been read aloud on BBC wireless, or radio.

After appearing on the BBC programme New Voices in 1988, Breeze became involved with the British film, television, and theatre industries. In the 1990s alone, she contributed to television programmes, wrote two plays, and wrote...

The BBC published BB 's single children's book, Pussy Owl, with illustrations by Hilary Hayton . The stories which make up the book had been told on the BBC children's programme Jackanory.

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...