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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...

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.

SS recorded a series of three programmes entitled Poems and Drawings, which was broadcast by the BBC .

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Levy says she began work on this novel after, as an adult, she at last got her mother talking about the earlier, Jamaican part of her life. At first she was very nervous writing a...

H. R. Millar did another set of illustrations for the book, somewhat derivative of those of Pryse. Because sales were disappointing, EN decided to advertise the book through what would now be called an...

In 1987 BE published Family Bargain, a book for schoolchildren commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation .

SS was interviewed by Derek Hart for the BBC Home Service; the interview is now available over the internet.

It began as an idea floated to the BBC in 1985, before such formalities as a synopsis were required. Its author had suppposed it of rather local interest (for recipients of housing benefit in the...

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...