Sarah, and Lee. “Great LezBritain: Sarah Waters talks inspiration, adaptations at World Book Night”. AfterEllen.com, pp. 1 - 2.
Channel 4
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Jean Binta Breeze | Stylistically, this meant the replacement of a predominantly dub style with a more experimental format, one willing to embrace new and unusual rhythmic qualities. The work also led the British Film Institute
and Channel 4 |
| Reception | Sarah Waters | SW
had not expected her book to travel beyond the lesbian community, but she was in for a surprise. |
| Textual Production | Ruth Fainlight | During the 1990s RF
wrote three opera libretti. First, composer Erika Fox
, commissioned by Covent Garden Opera House
for their series The Garden Venture, invited Fainlight to provide a chamber opera libretto, and... |
| Textual Production | Sarah Kane | |
| Textual Production | Michèle Roberts | MR
had another play, Child Lover, premiered at the Tramway Theatre
in Glasgow in 1993. The television adaptation of her story Ma Semblable Ma Soeur (titled from Baudelaire
, with her script), aired on... |
| Textual Production | Zadie Smith | Rumour has it that Hamish Hamilton
accepted the manuscript for publication and paid its advance of £250,000 on the strength of eighty pages which ZS
submitted to them in the year of her graduation from... |
Timeline
4. 45 p.m.2November1982
The fourth British tv channel put out its first broadcast: Channel 4
, which was licensed to be innovative and experimental, was launched with a teatime quiz game-show, Countdown.
Early 2004
The Richard and Judy Book Club
was launched in Britain as a weekly television programme on Channel 4
, taking as its model the bookclub
of Oprah Winfrey
in the USA.
22 June 2006
A play by the unknown Kate Betts
entitled On the Third Day opened at the New Ambassadors Theatre
in London.
24 May 2010
For the first time, British television showed a commercial publicizing abortion services (offered by the Marie Stopes Health Clinic
).