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| 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 | Nancy Mitford | It was televised by the BBC
during winter 2000-1. |
| Textual Production | Rose Tremain | |
| Textual Production | Brigid Brophy | After John Profumo
resigned from the Cabinet on 4 June 1963 following his detection in a lie to the House of Commons
about his relationship with a prostitute, the BBC
commissioned BB
for a talk... |
| Textual Production | Selima Hill | SH
reviews books of poetry. She contributed the introduction to Helen Armstrong
's Sean's House: Poems by Writers from Selima Hill's Exeter Writing Groups, Exeter 1996. In 1990 she edited Jumping Over Trees: Poems... |
| Textual Production | Penelope Lively | PL
has been highly productive as a writer for children, in books and stories which tackle themes similar to those of her adult novels. She has acted as presenter on a BBC Radio 4
programme... |
| 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 | Bernardine Evaristo | |
| Textual Production | Timberlake Wertenbaker | Writing for these genres as well as for the stage, TW
often revisits and reshapes the work of earlier writers. She wrote the screenplay for The Children, a Film Four International
production (1990) adapted... |
| 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 | 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 | Malorie Blackman | Hacker was dramatized for BBC radio
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
| Textual Production | Shelagh Delaney |
Timeline
21 June 1969: Queen Elizabeth II and her family, in tune...
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21 June 1969
Queen Elizabeth II
and her family, in tune with the lowering of boundaries of the time period, provided the BBC
unprecedented access to their lives for the documentary The Royal Family.
10 April 1974: The Annan Committee began work on its enquiry...
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10 April 1974
The Annan Committee
began work on its enquiry into the structure, funding, and future of British broadcasting.
5 November 1974: Shirley Gee's first radio play, Stones, was...
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5 November 1974
1976: Angela Rippon became the first woman newsreader...
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1976
Angela Rippon
became the first woman newsreader on British television (BBC
); the job lasted only six years, though she acquired an enthusiastic public.
By 11 October 1976: More people in Britain held licences for...
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By 11 October 1976
More people in Britain held licences for colour television sets than for black and white: the licence fee continued, to fund the BBC
.
28 February 1977: Moonshine, a play by Shirley Gee, was produced...
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28 February 1977
16 August 1979: BBC Radio 4 broadcast Shirley Gee's Bedr...
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16 August 1979
1980: Shirley Gee's Typhoid Mary was included in...
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1980
Shirley Gee
's Typhoid Mary was included in the BBC
's Best Radio Plays of 1979: The Giles Cooper Award Winners.
16 October 1987: In the early hours of the morning a violent...
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16 October 1987
In the early hours of the morning a violent storm battered the south of England, with winds reaching a hundred kilometres an hour in some places.
24 May 1988: The Local Government Act came into force...
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24 May 1988
The Local Government Act came into force in Britain, containing the highly controversial section 28, forbidding local authorities from promoting homosexuality.
1991: The Listener, founded early in 1929 as the...
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1991
The Listener, founded early in 1929 as the journal of the BBC
, ceased publication.
22 April 1993: Young white thugs made an unprovoked knife...
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22 April 1993
Young white thugs made an unprovoked knife attack on a Black teenager, Stephen Lawrence
, and a friend with whom he was waiting at a bus-stop in Eltham, south-east London. The pair ran, but Stephen...
16 June 2003: A BBC television quiz programme, The Professionals...
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16 June 2003
A BBC
television quiz programme, The Professionals (successor to University Challenge), which pits against each other teams of journalists, meteorologists, psychiatrists or whatever, fielded a team of poets.
10 September 2003: Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of...
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10 September 2003
Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of the Week a website entitled Poetry Landmarks of Britain: a map of poetic assocations plotted on an interactive map of Britain, searchable by region or category.
20 June 2006: The BBC cancelled its flagship pop music...
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20 June 2006
The BBC
cancelled its flagship pop music programme, Top of the Pops, after forty-two years on the air.
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