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The Royal Court acted speedily, getting the play on stage the month after it was written, at equal speed, in response to the simultaneous incursion of Israel into the Gaza Strip. Tickets were free, but...

CC 's unpublished manuscripts are held at the University of Bristol (Women's Theatre Archive, Department of Drama). The National Sound Archive at the British Library holds tape recordings of stage and radio plays. Radio play...

BBC Radio 3 broadcast readings and discussion by KC and working-class poet Paul Farley of poems by Philip Larkin based on train travel around Larkinland and conversation with some of its denizens.

Between receiving her BA degree and getting married, Gillian Williams (later GC ) worked as a news researcher for the BBC in London.

Leonard Woolf's decision proved a mistake. The book was not only praised to the skies by young, advanced reviewers, but also made the secondary Book of the Month for May by the newly-formed Book Society

The BBC did a pre-publication adaptation by Christopher Sykes : before the book appeared ICB 's friend Elizabeth Taylor called it the new short BBC novel.

Elizabeth Taylor detailed the interest that attended this book's appearance. Published on a Monday, it was broadcast as a radio play on Wednesday, discussed on radio on Thursday by Daniel George (who called the author...

In the particularly teasingly titled Go Tell It to Mrs. Golightly, 1977, a blind girl staying with her grandfather discovers a kidnapping.Joe and the Gladiator was filmed for BBC television in 1971.

By the late 1980s, when she was past eighty herself and in precarious health, CC had become an industry that supported a vast empire, with hundreds of people dependent on her for their livelihood. This...

The title punctures its own potential pretentiousness with reference to The Archers, the much-loved BBC radio serial of country life. Cope's prose style, like her poetry, is dialogic and punchy. When she gave up...

WC 's radio play Shall I Call Thee Bard? A Portrait of Jason Strugnell was broadcast by BBC Radio 3. The opening words of the title pun on a question addressed by Wordsworth to the...

Yet the casual virtuosity of this poem is a kind of consolation. WC 's assets include the power of compression and the power of brevity, sometimes Larkin esque (as in the conclusion of Bloody Men...

The acknowledgements reveal the author's involvement with a rich mix of cultural activities. The opening poem, This is my house (two stanzas of seven short lines), was commissioned for a documentary film of the same...

The BBC filmed a play entitled Just William for television. The play was based on RC 's William books, and was then playing at the Granville Theatre in Fulham.

Critics were unfailingly enthusiastic, and the William books (with their US editions and European translations) were distributed and translated widely. The profits from the William books allowed RC to build her own house, and...