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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 Shelagh Delaney
BBC Radio 4 broadcast SD 's play Whoopi Goldberg's Country Life, which has nothing to do with US writer Whoopi Goldberg , but is a sequel to Delaney's Country Life, 2004.
“Afternoon Play. Whoopi Goldberg’s Country Life”. BBC Radio 4.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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...
Textual Production Shelagh Delaney
SD wrote several television scripts in the 1970s and early 1980s. The first was Did Your Nanny Come from Bergen? for the BBC in 1970.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Shelagh Delaney
SD 's contributions to BBC radio include So Does the Nightingale (1980) and Don't Worry about Matilda (broadcast in 1983 and produced in 1987). Tell Me a Film, 2003, and Baloney Said Salome...
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...
Textual Production Anne Devlin
BBC Two aired A Woman Calling, AD 's first television play, adapted from her own short story Passages, and produced by her husband, Chris Parr .
Devlin, Anne. Ourselves Alone. Faber and Faber.
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Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Textual Production Anne Devlin
AD 's television play The Long March was shown on BBC One .
Devlin, Anne. Ourselves Alone. Faber and Faber.
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Cerquoni, Enrica. “In Conversation with Anne Devlin”. Theatre Talk: Voices of Irish Theatre Practitioners, edited by Lilian Chambers et al., Carysfort Press, pp. 107-23.
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Performance of text Anne Devlin
AD 's teleplay Naming the Names first shown on BBC Two television channel; it was also broadcast on BBC Radio later this year.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Textual Production Anne Devlin
BBC One broadcast The Venus de Milo Instead, a teleplay by AD .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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“Anne Devlin”. Alan Brodie Representation.
Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Textual Production Anne Devlin
The opening instalment of AD 's three-part television adaptation of D. H. Lawrence 's novel The Rainbow was first aired on BBC One .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press.
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Reception Anne Devlin
AD has read two of these stories on BBC Radio 4 : Five Notes after a Visit (1986) and First Bite (1990).
Devlin, Anne. The Way-Paver. Faber and Faber.
prelims
“Anne Devlin”. Alan Brodie Representation.
Reception Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Reviewer John Pemble mentions the whole archive of mock research in pseudo-academic publications dedicated to [Holmes's] life and work. Contributors to the BBC 's centenary tribute in 1954 all expressed the hope that Holmes was...
Reception Daphne Du Maurier
DDM made her first television appearance, in an interview on BBC 2 .
Forster, Margaret. Daphne du Maurier. Chatto and Windus.
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Author summary Daphne Du Maurier
DDM , who published throughout the middle years of the twentieth century, was primarily a novelist, though she wrote non-fiction—biography, plays, and screenplays—as well. Her work was adapted into film and television by such esteemed...

Timeline

29 July 1948: The BBC broadcast a television programme...

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29 July 1948

The BBC broadcast a television programme on the opening of the Olympic Games from Wembley Stadium in still visibly bomb-damaged London. This was the first Olympics to be televised.

11 October 1948: The first outside BBC television broadcast...

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11 October 1948

The first outside BBC television broadcast was made: from Number 10 Downing Street for the Commonwealth Conference .

March 1949: Elizabeth Bowen's feature on 1918 was broadcast...

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March 1949

Elizabeth Bowen 's feature on 1918 was broadcast on the BBC 's Third Programme series A Year I Remember.

29 July 1949: BBC television aired its first weather b...

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29 July 1949

BBC television aired its first weather broadcast.

4 September 1949: The surface of the moon was televised by...

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4 September 1949

The surface of the moon was televised by the BBC for the first time, through a powerful telescope.

16 January 1950: The BBC made its first broadcast of Listen...

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16 January 1950

The BBC made its first broadcast of Listen with Mother.

23 February 1950: The General Election brought 84 percent of...

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23 February 1950

The General Election brought 84 percent of the British electorate out to vote. The BBC aired the first televised report of results of this election.

27 August 1950: The BBC made its first live television broadcast...

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27 August 1950

The BBC made its first live television broadcast from the Continent (from Calais) using outside broadcast equipment.

30 September 1950: The BBC aired its first live air-to-ground...

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30 September 1950

The BBC aired its first live air-to-ground television broadcast, from an aircraft in flight.

26 October 1950: The BBC made its first sound and television...

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26 October 1950

The BBC made its first sound and television broadcast from the House of Commons, on the occasion of the opening of the rebuilt chamber.

January 1951: The Beveridge Committee on Broadcasting reported...

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January 1951

The BeveridgeCommittee on Broadcasting reported that the propaganda power
“Media quotations from official sources”. Terra Media: Quotations.
of access through radio and television to millions of homes was too great to be allowed out of public institutional hands.

1 January 1951: After a one-week trial the previous May,...

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1 January 1951

After a one-week trial the previous May, The Archers, countryside soap-opera of BBC radio, began regular broadcasting; it soon attracted two million listeners.

May 1951: The BBC experimentally launched a comic radio...

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May 1951

The BBC experimentally launched a comic radio series, Crazy People; as The Goon Show, it ran for nine years and became a household word.

6 June 1951: The BBC made its first broadcast from Buckingham...

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6 June 1951

The BBC made its first broadcast from Buckingham Palace, on the occasion of a State Banquet for King Haakon of Norway.

4 October 1951: E. M. Forster's praise for the accomplishments...

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4 October 1951

E. M. Forster 's praise for the accomplishments of the BBC's Third Programme was published in The Listener.

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