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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...

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 ...

Albert Square is fictional, a place immediately recognisable to most of MD 's readers as the home of the BBC soap opera East Enders. MD impartially investigates both popular and unpopular phenomena: Boadicea and...

While she was enrolled in a magazine-writing course at the University of Toronto , CS wrote a story which to her amazement her instructor arranged to have broadcast on the CBC , and over the...

AU , whose experience of public speaking had included a lecture on Writing for Children, spoke bravely on BBC TV's Book Programme in the month of her ninety-first birthday.

AW was given three weeks to produce a booklet about her employer, the BBC : BBC at War.

This work had an impact on her own writing, which continued to be her primary focus. Hazel Holt observes that she was a capable and conscientious editor but had no real interest in Africa as...

In about 1971 GG began working as a broadcaster-journalist for mainline as well as fringe or underground publications. This aspect of her work included frequent appearances on BBC programmes, where she continues to appear in...

She retired to become a full-time writer at the end of 1979, six months before her sixtieth birthday. Then she served as a magistrate for Willesden (1979-82) and for Inner London (1984). She has been...

VM was invited to host a series of BBC radio broadcasts on literary figures.

During the Second World War, EAR worked as a government adviser on films. After the war she returned to reviewing films on radio. She was a broadcaster of note, particularly as a panellist on The...

In her autobiography Jameson also briefly mentions compiling a report on women in munitions factories for the Ministry of Supply at this time. She spoke on the BBC at least once, in a radio address...

MAH served as a Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation .

Her broadcasting career did not end with the war, but continued sporadically in the USA and even occasionally in England with the BBC .

GO organised and produced talks broadcast by the Far Eastern section of the BBC (largely to India), on topics ranging from the war to English poetry.