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Textual Production E. Arnot Robertson
EAR made her first BBC broadcast, Travel and Yachting on English Rivers, and was also heard in unrehearsed debate on issues of gender with Rose Macaulay .
Mason, Edward J., and Tony Shryane. “My Word! (1956-1990)”. Radio Days: Whirligig: 1950’s British Radio Nostalgia.
Devlin, Polly, and E. Arnot Robertson. “Introduction”. Four Frightened People, Virago, p. vii - xix.
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Textual Production Irene Handl
These were IR's only books. She also wrote for radio and contributed the introduction to The Listening Corner Storybook, published for the BBC in 1985.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Deborah Levy
DL has also written dramatic adaptations for BBC radio of others' work: of Chance Acquaintances by Colette , of Unless by Carol Shields , and of Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca , the last...
Textual Production Winsome Pinnock
For radio WP wrote a play called Her Father's Daughter, 1998, and adapted the short story Let Them Call It Jazz by Jean Rhys (dramatization 1997), the novel Indiana by George Sand (1832; BBC Radio Four
Textual Production Elizabeth Jennings
She also joined with fellow-writers in letters to the Times on matters of public concern. She joined with forty well-known names (including Pamela Hansford Johnson ) on 25 September 1969 to defend keeping up the...
Textual Production Katherine Mansfield
Scholar Claire Tomalin suspects that this refusal had to do with KM 's unacknowledged debt to Chekhov in The Child-Who-Was-Tired.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Mansfield was, however, feeling discouraged about all her work. In February, with The Garden...
Textual Production Shelagh Delaney
BBC television ran The House that Jack Built, a six-part series written by SD about the marriage of a couple the author describes as a cowboy and a madonna.
Cunningham, John. “The Salford Madonna”. The Guardian.
Textual Production Rose Tremain
BBC Radio 4 broadcast RT 's play One Night In Winter.
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Textual Production Maureen Duffy
This novel was filmed for television by the BBC in 1988 as First Born.
Duffy, Maureen. The Microcosm. Virago.
prelims
Textual Production Frances Ridley Havergal
The most common theme of FRH 's poetry and hymns is an unswerving devotion to God, whom she generally refers to as The King or The Master. Her most popular hymns include Take My...
Textual Production Ann Oakley
It was televised by the BBC amid much media hyperbole.
Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo.
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A paperback appeared in 1989, and another ten years later.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Cochrane, Kira. “Ann Oakley: ’Barbara Wootton was too visionary’”. theguardian.com.
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
Gardens of Eden, MW 's radio play based on her own poems, was aired in 1987 on BBC Radio 4 with music by Michael Nyman .
Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
Textual Production Winsome Pinnock
Later the same year she featured in Lenny Henry 's ten-part BBC documentary series Raising The Bar: 100 Years Of Black British Theatre And Screen (along with historical figures like Una Marson ). She also...
Textual Production Dorothy Wellesley
The selection was made in conjunction with BBC staff for a series of readings that autumn; it consisted of the work of poets born (so far as could be ascertained) since 1880, and therefore under...
Textual Production Noel Streatfeild
She used her own theatre experience, and the ballet experience of a sister. The book (whose full title was Ballet Shoes, A story of three children on the stage) was illustrated by the author's...

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8 May 1945: This day, the one following the formal, unconditional...

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8 May 1945

This day, the one following the formal, unconditional German surrender to the Allies at Rheims in France, was called V. E. Day or VE Day.

Late 1945: André Deutsch established the publishing...

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Late 1945

André Deutsch established the publishing firm Allan Wingate in Great Cumberland Street, London.

3 September 1945: The Forces Educational Broadcasts began on...

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3 September 1945

The Forces Educational Broadcasts began on BBC radio.

4 March 1946: The BBC broadcast the first Housewives' Choice...

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4 March 1946

The BBC broadcast the first Housewives' Choice programme.

24 March 1946: Alistair Cooke made his first Letter from...

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24 March 1946

Alistair Cooke made his first Letter from America broadcast for the BBC . This series was meant to run for thirteen weeks, but when its last new instalment aired on 20 February 2004 it was...

7 June 1946: The BBC television service resumed after...

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7 June 1946

The BBC television service resumed after the war.

8 June 1946: Britain's Victory Parade marking the end...

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8 June 1946

Britain's Victory Parade marking the end of the Second World War was televised by the BBC .

7 July 1946: BBC television broadcast to children for...

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7 July 1946

BBC television broadcast to children for the first time, in For the Children.

29 September 1946: The BBC's Third Programme began radio br...

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29 September 1946

The BBC 's Third Programme began radio broadcasting.

7 October 1946: The BBC first broadcast a new programme:...

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7 October 1946

The BBC first broadcast a new programme: Woman's Hour. (It succeeded to a short-lived Women's Hour, first broadcast on 2 May 1923.)

6 February 1947: The Fourteen-Day Rule was formalized in Britain,...

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6 February 1947

The Fourteen-Day Rule was formalized in Britain, by which no bill coming before parliament within the next two weeks was to be discussed on the BBC .

6 November 1947: Designed for Women with Jeanne Heal was first...

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6 November 1947

Designed for Women with Jeanne Heal was first aired on BBC television.

20 November 1947: Princess Elizabeth married the Duke of Edinburgh;...

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20 November 1947

Princess Elizabeth married the Duke of Edinburgh ; BBC radio broadcast the wedding service, and BBC television covered the procession as well.

1948: Leading obstetrician and gynaecologist Josephine...

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1948

Leading obstetrician and gynaecologist Josephine Barnes gave great offence with a series of talks on BBC radio about women's health. Subjects like bleeding, ovaries, and hormonal changes were deemed unfit for airing in public.

1948: Leading obstetrician and gynaecologist Josephine...

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1948

Leading obstetrician and gynaecologist Josephine Barnes gave great offence with a series of talks on BBC radio about women's health. Subjects like bleeding, ovaries, and hormonal changes were deemed unfit for airing in public.

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