“Louise Page”. British Council. contemporarywriters.
BBC
Connections
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Family and Intimate relationships | J. K. Rowling | JFK investigated her mother's French roots and made a television programme for BBC One
about the results in April 2012. Her great-grandfather, Louis Volant, was born illegitimate in Paris, had a successful career in London... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Joanna Trollope | In 1985 JT
married her second husband, Ian Curteis
, a television director and dramatist known particularly for documentaries, dramatised biographies, and for challenging the left-wing hegemony at the BBC
. His works include an... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Kamila Shamsie | Hosain remained in London, and eventually took up a job with the BBC
. During her time as a broadcaster, she presented her own women's programme for the BBC's Eastern Service, worked variously for the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Shelagh Delaney | SD
chose April Fools' Day to announce her daughter's birth to the press. The Daily Mail reported that she recently made a chain-smoking appearance on BBC television and that in February 1963 she admitted to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Angela Thirkell | At sixteen he left Australia (shortly after his mother returned to England) for Brussels, where he worked in business until, in 1935, he moved to England himself. He studied art, served in the army during... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Louise Page | LP
is married to Christopher Hawes
, a fellow author and former drama teacher, who like her often works for the BBC
. “Christopher Hawes”. Pollinger Limited. authors’ agents. |
Fictionalization | Emmeline Pankhurst | June Purvis
traces the influence on EP
's reputation of the relations between her daughters. Sylvia
, estranged from her mother, portrayed her in The Suffragette Movement (1931, influentially reprinted in 1977) as a lost... |
Fictionalization | Sir J. M. Barrie | Honours were showered upon Barrie in his later days. He was created a baronet in 1913 and awarded the Order of Merit in 1920. A number of universities honoured him, and in 1928 he became... |
Fictionalization | Mary Seacole | Scholars of colonial discourse such as Simon Gikandi have found in her newly available narrative an avenue for exploring the complexity of the colonial subject's construction of identity, against whom to read better-known Victorian women... |
Fictionalization | Anne Lister | It was in connection with her immediate or recent reputation that AL
was allegedly fictionalised both in Brontë
's Shirley and Rosa Kettle
's The Mistress of Langdale Hall, 1872. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Fictionalization | Naomi Jacob | BBC
radio aired a play by Harold Lang
and Kenneth Tynan
, The Quest for Corbett, in which NJ
played the lead role as Aphra Corbett, a preposterous woman writer modelled on herself. Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin). 180-1 |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Dempster | Isabella Elder was the widow of John Elder
, a famous Glasgow shipbuilder. When he died in 1869 he left her a fortune; she used it to buy and donate Northpark House in Glasgow as... |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Pym | BP
encountered Lord David Cecil
(Oxford
don, longtime admirer, and one of the two recent rediscoverers of her work) at a media event filmed by the BBC
and aired as Tea With Miss Pym. Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press. 44 |
Friends, Associates | Rose Macaulay | Through correspondence RM
became a life-long friend of Gilbert Murray
, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford
, and Chairman of the Executive of the League of Nations Union
. He was fifteen years her... |
Friends, Associates | Stevie Smith | Her large circle of friends also included Sally Chilver
(author of A History of Socialism), novelists Inez Holden
, Olivia Manning
, and Cecily Mackworth
, Kay Dick
(assistant editor of John O'London's Weekly... |
Timeline
8 December 1936: The BBC for the first time televised a full-length...
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8 December 1936
The BBC
for the first time televised a full-length ballet: William Walton
's Façade (derived from Edith Sitwell
) with Margot Fonteyn
and Robert Helpmann
.
9 December 1936: BBC television broadcast its first cookery...
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9 December 1936
BBC
television broadcast its first cookery demonstration: Moira Meighn
presented meals cookable in fifteen minutes on a single burner.
12 May 1937: The coronation of King George VI became the...
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12 May 1937
The coronation of King George VI
became the first outside broadcast by the BBC
Television Service.
21 June 1937: The Wimbledon tennis tournament was televised...
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21 June 1937
The Wimbledon tennis tournament was televised for the first time, by the BBC
.
11 November 1937: The BBC made its first television broadcast...
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11 November 1937
The BBC
made its first television broadcast of the Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph.
1938: BBC radio began a broadcasting service to...
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1938
BBC
radio began a broadcasting service to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and countries throughout Europe, which ran until 1943.
3 January 1938: The BBC's first foreign-language service...
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3 January 1938
The BBC
's first foreign-language service (in Arabic) began.
16 November 1938: The BBC televised for the first time a play...
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16 November 1938
The BBC
televised for the first time a play direct from the theatre, J. B. Priestley
's When We Are Married.
23 November 1938: The BBC televised underwater scenes for the...
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23 November 1938
The BBC
televised underwater scenes for the first time, during a training session for divers.
24 May 1939: BBC television presented the first high-definition...
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24 May 1939
BBC
television presented the first high-definition coverage of the Derby at Epsom.
23 August 1939: The BBC's London Calling was first broad...
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23 August 1939
The BBC
's London Calling was first broadcast.
1 September 1939: The BBC television service was stopped for...
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1 September 1939
The BBC
television service was stopped for reasons of national defence.
3 September 1939: Britain and France officially declared war...
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3 September 1939
Britain and France officially declared war on Germany.
19 September 1939: The BBC radio series It's That Man Again...
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19 September 1939
The BBC
radio series It's That Man Again began: known as, and pronounced as, ITMA, and ridiculing the alleged doings of Adolf Hitler
, it became immensely popular.
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