BBC

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Maureen Duffy
This novel was filmed for television by the BBC in 1988 as First Born.
Duffy, Maureen. The Microcosm. Virago.
prelims
Textual Production Frances Ridley Havergal
The most common theme of FRH 's poetry and hymns is an unswerving devotion to God, whom she generally refers to as The King or The Master. Her most popular hymns include Take My...
Textual Production Penelope Shuttle
She dedicated this volume to her husband , daughter, mother , and father . Many of its contents had appeared in journals or anthologies, or had been broadcast on the BBC . Two had featured...
Textual Production Caryl Churchill
Churchill thought of The Ants as a television play when she wrote it, but her agent sensibly sent it to radio.
Churchill, Caryl. Plays: One. Methuen.
xi
Between 1962 and 1973 CC wrote a number of short radio plays that...
Textual Production Naomi Jacob
A few months after her death, NJ 's Me—Thinking Things Over appeared in print, collecting her talks broadcast on the BBC 's Woman's Hour.
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin).
142
Textual Production Sara Maitland
These stories (originally commissioned by the BBC for broadcast during the days of Holy Week, leading up to Good Friday) were not reprinted in Angel Maker: The Short Stories of Sara Maitland, which was...
Textual Production G. B. Stern
GBS did her writing early in the day: sometimes before breakfast, always from ten to one.
Stern, G. B. Trumpet Voluntary. Cassell.
51
The major collection of her papers at Boston University includes letters and proofs. More letters are in the...
Textual Production Jeanette Winterson
The television adaptation of JW 's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was transmitted in three episodes on BBC Television ; the script was published the same year.
Winterson, Jeanette. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: Adapted from her novel by Jeanette Winterson. Pandora.
cast list
Textual Production Jean Rhys
Rhys heard from a friend in October 1956 that the BBC were looking for her regarding a feature production of the novel. She wrote to them to encourage their plans, as it had been seven...
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/.
Textual Production Evelyn Glover
Between 1927 and 1934, EG had several short pieces broadcast over BBC radio.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
under Evelyn Glover
Textual Production Marghanita Laski
With Claud Cockburn , Cyril Connolly , Kenneth Tynan , Peter Forster , Wynford Vaughan Thomas , and Steven Watson , ML co-wrote the script for the BBC television comedy series Dig This Rhubarb.
Lewisohn, Mark. “Dig This Rhubarb”. The bbc.co.uk Guide to Comedy.
Textual Production Maureen Duffy
Her life with Behn had begun in 1973 or early 1974, she wrote later, after she had taken an honours degree in English without ever hearing Behn's existence hinted at.
Duffy, Maureen. “My Life with Aphra Behn”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
19
, No. 2.
238
She was stunned by...
Textual Production Dodie Smith
Dear Octopus was revived almost immediately at the Adelphi , in July and August of 1940, and it remains DS 's most frequently revived play. It was published by Heinemann in 1938.
Gale, Maggie B. West End Women: Women and the London Stage, 1918-1962. Routledge.
226
Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus.
107
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
It...
Textual Production Bernardine Evaristo
BE adapted the novella as a radio play for the BBC in 2012.

Timeline

3 November 1956: Prime Minister Anthony Eden made one of a...

National or international item

3 November 1956

Prime Minister Anthony Eden made one of a series of ministerial broadcasts on the recent Suez crisis, which was covered by BBC television and ITV as well as the BBC radio service at home and...

24 September 1957: BBC television for schools began broadca...

Building item

24 September 1957

BBC television for schools began broadcasting.

21 April 1958: Margery Fry died as almost a national celebrity:...

Building item

21 April 1958

Margery Fry died as almost a national celebrity: criminal justice reformer, prison reformer, campaigner for victims' compensation, educationalist (briefly Principal of Somerville College ), writer on children's care and development, and latterly broadcaster (a regular...

14 July 1958: The BBC transmitted its first live television...

National or international item

14 July 1958

The BBC transmitted its first live television broadcast from Africa via Eurovision : coverage of Bastille Day in Algiers.

4 November 1958: BBC television broadcast the coronation of...

National or international item

4 November 1958

BBC television broadcast the coronation of Pope John XXIII via Eurovision .

Up to 8 October 1959: The BBC for the first time gave coverage...

National or international item

Up to 8 October 1959

The BBC for the first time gave coverage in its news broadcasts to a General Election campaign.

20 June 1960: Nan Winton became the first woman reader...

National or international item

20 June 1960

Nan Winton became the first woman reader of television network news on the BBC .

25 December 1960: Queen Elizabeth II's first pre-recorded Christmas...

National or international item

25 December 1960

Queen Elizabeth II 's first pre-recorded Christmas message was broadcast on BBC television.

1962: Publisher John Calder and writer's widow...

Writing climate item

1962

Publisher John Calder and writer's widow Sonia Orwell together organised at Edinburgh the first, highly successful Writers' Conference.

15 January 1963: The BBC removed its ban preventing comedy...

Building item

15 January 1963

The BBC removed its ban preventing comedy programmes from discussing politics, sex, religion, or royalty.

New Year's Day 1964: The popular and long-running BBC programme...

Building item

New Year's Day 1964

The popular and long-running BBC programme Top of the Pops was launched The presenter was Jimmy Savile , who years later was posthumously disgraced as a paedophile.
O’Hagan, Andrew. “Light Entertainment”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 21, pp. 5-8.
7

1965: Peter Watson's The War Game, a television...

National or international item

1965

Peter Watson 's The War Game, a television film which imagines conditions in Britain in the aftermath of a nuclear attack, was withdrawn by the BBC in response to government pressure.

16 December 1966: The BBC screened its famous Wednesday play...

Building item

16 December 1966

The BBC screened its famous Wednesday playCathy Come Home, a drama about a homeless family written by Jeremy Sandford (husband of Nell Dunn ), produced by Tony Garnett , and directed by Ken Loach .

1967: The BBC began the first regular colour television...

National or international item

1967

The BBC began the first regular colour television service in Europe.

30 September 1967: The BBC's Third Programme was renamed Radio...

Building item

30 September 1967

The BBC 's Third Programme was renamed Radio 3 , and revised to cut down the proportion of spoken word material broadcast in favour of classical music.

Texts

No bibliographical results available.