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Textual Production | Nancy Mitford | It was televised by the BBC
during winter 2000-1. |
Textual Production | Rose Tremain | |
Textual Production | Sarah Daniels | |
Textual Production | F. Tennyson Jesse | In 1948 FTJ
and her husband
adapted the novel as a play, which opened in London at the New Boltons Theatre Club
in May 1951. The novel was produced as a talking book in 1953... |
Textual Production | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | A ten-part BBC
television adaptation followed in 1969. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (15 April 1969): 14 |
Textual Production | Michelene Wandor | Novels adapted by MW
are not restricted to those by women. Works by male writers she has revised for broadcasting include Kipps by H. G. Wells
, aired on Radio 4
in 1984 and runner-up... |
Textual Production | Phyllis Bentley | Inheritance was a huge success: it sold 20,000 copies by July 1932, and within a year had gone through ten editions; in time it was translated into eight languages. It was broadcast serially on the... |
Textual Production | Mary Wesley | It appeared exactly a year after she had finished the first draft (working title Period Piece) and put away the manuscript (written in ink on paper of A4 size, with lines but without margins)... |
Textual Production | Frances Hodgson Burnett | This was re-issued by Persephone Books
in 2001 (together with, in the same volume, its sequel, The Methods of Lady Walderhurst). It was subsequently broadcast as a BBC Radio Four
classic serial. Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Susan Hill | |
Textual Production | Hilary Mantel | Within not much more than a year of publication this novel had sold more than 65,000 copies, overturning its author's feeling of having always been a very modest seller. Taylor, Debbie. “Hilary Mantel”. Mslexia, No. 30, pp. 46-8. 47 |
Textual Production | Caryl Churchill | 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's unpublished manuscripts are held at the University of Bristol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... |
Textual Production | Bernardine Evaristo | Evaristo contributes to various periodicals and reviews for the Guardian and the Independent. She has written drama and fiction for BBC Radio 4
. Evaristo, Bernardine. Bernardine Evaristo, Writer. http://bevaristo.com/. |
Textual Production | E. Arnot Robertson | |
Textual Production | Diana Athill | DA
's contributions to various periodicals sometimes enlarge on Stet in describing famous writers and her publishing relationships with them. In 2000 she wrote for the TLS on Jean Rhys
and for Granta on V. S. Naipaul |
Timeline
15 October 1951: BBC television broadcast its first live election...
National or international item
15 October 1951
BBC
television broadcast its first live election address, given by Lord Samuel
.
15 February 1952: The funeral of King George VI was aired on...
National or international item
15 February 1952
The funeral of King George VI
was aired on both BBC
television and radio.
8 July 1952: The BBC broadcast its first public transmission...
National or international item
8 July 1952
The BBC
broadcast its first public transmission of television from Paris, using French equipment.
6 February 1953: Singer Kathleen Ferrier collapsed during...
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6 February 1953
Singer Kathleen Ferrier
collapsed during Gluck
's opera Orfeo at Covent Garden
; she never sang again, but died of cancer later this year.
16 April 1953: R. A. Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer,...
National or international item
16 April 1953
R. A. Butler
, Chancellor of the Exchequer, made the first budget speech to be broadcast on BBC
television.
2 June 1953: Queen Elizabeth II was crowned; the BBC's...
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2 June 1953
Queen Elizabeth II
was crowned; the BBC
's coverage of this, the first televised coronation, was carried live in the UK, France, the Netherlands and West Germany.
15 June 1953: BBC television made its first broadcast from...
Building item
15 June 1953
BBC
television made its first broadcast from a ship at sea, during a Royal Naval
Review.
1 November 1953: The BBC made its first television broadcast...
Building item
1 November 1953
The BBC
made its first television broadcast of Anglican Holy Communion.
7 October 1954: The BBC aired its first television coverage...
National or international item
7 October 1954
The BBC
aired its first television coverage of an annual Party Conference (that of the Conservatives, held in Blackpool).
December 1954: Winston Churchill, as Prime Minister, intervened...
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December 1954
Winston Churchill
, as Prime Minister, intervened to block a planned BBC
programme (with a woman producer) about the prospect of the H-bomb and the effects of fallout.
23 December 1954: The BBC broadcast a hard-hitting radio talk...
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23 December 1954
The BBC
broadcast a hard-hittingradio talk by Bertrand Russell
: Man's Peril, about the threat of nuclear war and the need for action to avoid it.
13 April 1955: The BBC television show For Deaf Children...
Building item
13 April 1955
The BBC
television show For Deaf Children was first aired.
28 March 1956: The BBC's Crystal Palace television station...
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28 March 1956
The BBC
's Crystal Palace television station was opened.
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