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Occupation | Germaine Greer | |
Occupation | George Orwell | |
Other Life Event | Jean Rhys | An actress, Selma vas Diaz
, had adapted Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight as a radio play and needed her permission to perform it for a BBC
broadcast. A public performance had already been set for... |
Other Life Event | E. Arnot Robertson | |
Performance of text | Michelene Wandor | Since the early 1990s, MW
has turned her attention to music. Her libretti and radio plays include works based on poems by John Cornford
, John Milton
, and Ariosto
: Spain, first performed... |
Performance of text | Eleanor Farjeon | Her introduction confides that her writing of children's poetry originated in the death of her dream of being a real poet. Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae. 61-2 |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | A recording of this sketch was broadcast by BBC Radio 3
the following day. It appeared in print in Harold Pinter Plays 4, 2012. “Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)”. doollee.com: Playwrights. |
Performance of text | Teresa Deevy | TD
's radio play Polinka was broadcast by BBC Northern Ireland
. It was repeated on this station in January 1949 and April 1951 and by the BBC all over Britain in December that year. The Teresa Deevy Archive. http://deevy.nuim.ie/. Timeline |
Performance of text | Ruth Padel | RP
has broadcast programmes of her own on BBC Radio 3
and Radio 4
about the work of composers, scientists, and writers. She chose the title Close Encounters for a series of interval talks about... |
Performance of text | Elaine Feinstein | |
Performance of text | Kathleen Jamie | A shorter version had been broadcast by BBC Radio 4
in 1985 under the title Rumours of Guns. Jamie, Kathleen, and Lilias Fraser. Mr. and Mrs. Scotland are Dead. Bloodaxe Books. 6 |
Performance of text | Jean Rhys | Selma vas Diaz
performed her dramatic monologue adapted from JR
's novel Good Morning, Midnight, with music by Roberto Gerhard
, on the BBC
's Third Programme. Mellown, Elgin W. Jean Rhys: A Descriptive and Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Garland. 151 |
Performance of text | Agatha Christie | AC
had written two plays, Black Coffee (1930) and Akhnaton (written in 1937 but not published until 1973), before adapting her novel Ten Little Niggers for the stage. This opened at St James's Theatre
,... |
Performance of text | Ruth Padel | The earliest stories that RP
mentions on her website are two that appeared in journals in 2001: Tigersex in the Dublin Review in May and The Last Tiger in Prospect Magazine in September. We're So... |
Performance of text | Elaine Feinstein | Two of these poems, Getting Older and Urban Lyric were read on BBC Radio Four
's Woman's Hour programme, and appear in the Woman's Hour 50th Anniversary Poetry Collection, 1996. McLoughlin, Pat, editor. Woman’s Hour: 50th Anniversary Poetry Collection. Penguin. 150, 162 |
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