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Textual Production Nancy Mitford
It was televised by the BBC during winter 2000-1.
Textual Production Rose Tremain
About the time of publication this book was read on BBC radio as A Book at Bedtime.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Production Sarah Daniels
SD has also written for radio (especially) and for television. Because she needed the money, she became a scriptwriter for two popular and successful BBC tv series: Grange Hill (set in a comprehensive school and...
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/.
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Textual Production Susan Hill
SH had already broadcast ten plays by the time the BBC published The Cold Country, and Other Plays for Radio, a collection of five of these pieces.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1976
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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
Of a proposed BBC adaptation...
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
EAR published stories in The Passing Show and Lilliput (from which one, Peace Comes to a Ministry, was selected by Kaye Webb for inclusion in the anthology Lilliput Goes to War, 1985). Over...
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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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1 November 1953

The BBC made its first television broadcast of Anglican Holy Communion.

7 October 1954: The BBC aired its first television coverage...

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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...

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13 April 1955

The BBC television show For Deaf Children was first aired.

22 September 1955: BBC television acquired its first commercially...

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22 September 1955

BBC television acquired its first commercially sponsored competitor when ITV (Independent Television) began broadcasting alternative programmes.

22 September 1955: BBC television acquired its first commercially...

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22 September 1955

BBC television acquired its first commercially sponsored competitor when ITV (Independent Television) began broadcasting alternative programmes.

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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