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Connections

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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 Eleanor Rathbone
Both these two (Fry and Oakeley ) remained Rathbone's close friends. In a BBC broadcast in 1956, Margery Fry recalled one of her discussions with ER on the social and professional possibilities open to educated...
Friends, Associates Sylvia Beach
On 26 August 1944, Hemingway came rolling down rue de l'Odéon with four BBC cars and liberated the rue de l'Odéon. SB writes that she heard four shots on the roofs and that was the...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Jenkins
In her day EJ knew most of the London literary world. She met Agatha Christie , whom she described as the most elegantly dressed elderly woman I have ever seen.
Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson.
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She counted among her...
Friends, Associates Antonia White
While working for the Special Operations ExecutivePolitical Intelligence Department , AW met Graham Greene , Simone Weil , and Kathleen Raine .
Chitty, Susan. Now To My Mother. Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
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Early in the war, as she gradually moved closer to the Church, she wrote...
Health Helen Waddell
After the war, too, she began to mention cognitive difficulties. I have been like something lost in the fog for most of the year, she wrote in November 1946, and my memory is still full...
Health Una Marson
In April 1946, UM 's English friend Stella Mead noticed that Marson was not doing well psychologically, and arranged for the writer Clare McFarlane to take her back to Jamaica with him. Suffering from depression...
Health Ann Oakley
At the suggestion of her general practitioner AO appeared, with her two babies, on the BBC 's Family Doctor programme as a case-study in depression.
Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo.
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Intertextuality and Influence Pamela Hansford Johnson
PHJ 's idea for an Imaginary Conversation among characters from Proust came originally from a suggestion by Rayner Heppenstall in about 1947 for a BBC broadcast. She was delighted with the quality of the original...
Intertextuality and Influence Liz Lochhead
LL 's contributions included a parody of the country song Stand by Your Man (And if you love him / Be proud of him / 'Cause after all he's Jist a Man)
Lochhead, Liz. True Confessions and New Clichés. Polygon Books.
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Intertextuality and Influence Joan Aiken
At five JA bought a notebook with a gift of two shillings, to do her writing in. As a child she was a great spinner of fantasy tales, first for herself and later for her...
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Daniels
This play has been used in a radio drama workshop by Elaine Aston and Geraldine Harris , and the script has been posted by the BBC on its website Writersroom because it has such pedagogic...
Literary responses Dodie Smith
The book was immediately popular. Noel Streatfeild chose it as her Book of the Month in Young Elizabethan magazine, and Foyle's Children's Book Club bought 20,000 copies. Reviews were glowing: the Times Literary Supplement described...
Literary responses Frances Burney
FB never disappeared from literary consciousness to the same extent as many of her female contemporaries, but she was usually treated with condescension. Austin Dobson published a life of her in 1903 in Macmillan 's...
Literary responses Sylvia Pankhurst
The book was well received, and enhanced SP 's reputation with the general public. George Bernard Shaw praised it in a speech on the BBC in which he compared SP to Joan of Arc ...

Timeline

1940: Ivy Benson, an accomplished and later famous...

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1940

Ivy Benson , an accomplished and later famous musician trained at the Leeds College of Art , established the group Ivy Benson and Her All-Girl Band.

7 January 1940: BBC radio's Forces Programme began....

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7 January 1940

BBC radio's Forces Programme began.

19 May 1940: Winston Churchill made his first BBC radio...

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19 May 1940

Winston Churchill made his first BBC radio broadcast as wartime coalition Prime Minister.

18 June 1940: Winston Churchill made his famous This was...

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18 June 1940

Winston Churchill made his famous This was their finest hour . . . broadcast on BBC radio.

13 October 1940: Princess Elizabeth made her first BBC radio...

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13 October 1940

Princess Elizabeth made her first BBC radio broadcast, directed to children of the Empire.

15 October 1940: A delayed-action bomb exploded in the BBC's...

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15 October 1940

A delayed-action bomb exploded in the BBC 's Broadcasting House during the 9 o'clock news, killing seven staff-members.

8 December 1940: A land mine caused severe damage to BBC's...

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8 December 1940

A land mine caused severe damage to BBC 's Broadcasting House.

1 January 1941: BBC radio's Brains' Trust (at first called...

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1 January 1941

BBC radio's Brains' Trust (at first called Any Questions) began.

10 May 1941: During the final, most destructive raid of...

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10 May 1941

During the final, most destructive raid of the Blitz, Queen's Hall was completely demolished by bombs and the BBC studios at Maida Vale received a direct hit from a high-explosive bomb.

22 June 1941: Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union (named...

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22 June 1941

Hitler 's invasion of the Soviet Union (named Operation Barbarossa, and in contravention of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact of 23 August 1939) began with a surprise attack at dawn which destroyed a thousand Soviet planes...

9 November 1941: The BBC forces' programme Sincerely Yours,...

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9 November 1941

The BBC forces' programme Sincerely Yours, Vera Lynn began broadcasting.

22 March 1942: The BBC transmitted its first daily news...

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22 March 1942

The BBC transmitted its first daily news bulletin in Morse code (in English and various other languages) to Resistance troops in Europe.

2 November 1942: The BBC's French service for Canada bega...

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2 November 1942

The BBC 's French service for Canada began.

3 April 1943: The BBC's programme Saturday Night Theatre...

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3 April 1943

The BBC 's programme Saturday Night Theatre began.

6 June 1944: On this day, known as D-Day (and postponed...

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6 June 1944

On this day, known as D-Day (and postponed a day because of bad weather), 155,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy. The airborne armada, nine planes wide and stretching for 200 miles, carried British, Canadian...

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