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Anthologization Deborah Moggach
DM has published two volumes of short stories: Smile and Other Stories, 1987, and Changing Babies and Other Stories, 1995, which contains fifteen stories. Her short fiction has been anthologised in Back Rubs...
Anthologization Bryony Lavery
BL has written a number of plays for schoolchildren to perform. Two of these appeared in the BBC 's school radio series, Drama Workshop Plays, in 1984. Other unpublished children's plays by BL are...
Characters E. M. Delafield
EMD defiantly maintains a light, satirical tone despite the gravity of the situation. She focuses deliberately on amusing characters and situations: evacuees who return to London because they cannot tolerate country life; a bureaucrat at...
Cultural formation Marghanita Laski
Though ML grew up in the Jewish tradition, in a childhood faith which she later described with warmth but with some later distance, she became in time a self-professed and publicly-acknowledged atheist. Her journey from...
Cultural formation Cecily Mackworth
English with some past admixture of French on her mother's side, Welsh on her father's, she grew up with a strong cosmopolitan or internationalist streak, as well as a tendency to eccentricity or disregard of...
Dedications Noel Streatfeild
NS published in book form The Bell Family, illustrated by Shirley Hughes and dedicated to Josephine Plummer , who had produced her series of the same name on the BBC radio programme Children's Hour in 1949-51.
Streatfeild, Noel, and Shirley Hughes. The Bell Family. Collins, 1965.
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Wilson, Barbara Ker. Noel Streatfeild. Bodley Head, 1961.
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Huse, Nancy. Noel Streatfeild. Twayne, 1994.
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Education Mary Gawthorpe
Apprenticeship included some part-time attendance at the Pupil-Teacher Centre in the LeedsSchool Board offices. There MG continued with largely the same subjects as at school, with the addition of French, educational theory, psychology, and...
Employer Gwen Moffat
In Sussex GM (already a writer for magazines and BBC Radio ) worked as a maid in a hotel, then for the Dolphin Theatre in Brighton, first as a secretary and then as property...
Employer Ling Shuhua
From 1956 to 1960, LS taught Chinese literature at Nanyang University , and lived in both Singapore and London. She wrote and travelled, taking trips to Japan and Hong Kong.
Welland, Sasha Su-Ling. A Thousand Miles of Dreams: The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
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She spent...
Employer Elspeth Huxley
After her stint as assistant press officer at the Empire Marketing Board in London (from 1929 to June 1932), EH moved on into broader journalism. During the second world war, in addition to quantities of...
Employer William Empson
He found himself teaching in primitive and personally dangerous conditions in distant universities, at least one a temporary, ad hoc organization—not only short of food but also teaching without books. He was the only European...
Employer Una Marson
UM was featured alongside Mulk Raj Anand , William Empson , and T. S. Eliot on the BBC 's radio magazine programme Voice edited by Eric Blair (George Orwell) .
Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998.
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Employer Pam Gems
PG worked as a writer and researcher for the BBC for some years from 1950. She worked on and off while bringing up her children.
Berney, Kathryn A., editor. Contemporary Women Dramatists. St. James Press, 1994.
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Burkman, Katherine H. “The Plays of Pam Gems: Personal/Political/Personal”. British and Irish Drama since 1960, edited by James Acheson, Macmillan; St Martin’s Press, 1993, pp. 190-01.
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Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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She contributed to her husband's mannequin business...
Employer Pamela Hansford Johnson
PHJ worked occasionally for the BBC from the late 1940s. She later became one of the Critics team (which meant regular recording sessions), and sat on the committee of the Book Society , which she...
Employer Vita Sackville-West
VSW was a lecturer and broadcaster for the BBC as well as a hard-working and prolific journalist.
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research, 1985.
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She has a place in any list of influential English gardeners, developing further some of the...

Timeline

21 November 1748: John Cleland published the first volume of...

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21 November 1748

John Cleland published the first volume of his soft-porn novel Fanny Hill.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

14 November 1922: Daily wireless (radio) broadcasting began...

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14 November 1922

Daily wireless (radio) broadcasting began in Britain from the London station of the British Broadcasting Company (later the British Broadcasting Corporation ).
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
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Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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14 November 1922: Daily wireless (radio) broadcasting began...

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14 November 1922

Daily wireless (radio) broadcasting began in Britain from the London station of the British Broadcasting Company (later the British Broadcasting Corporation ).
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
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Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
37, 364

5 December 1922: Children's Hour was first broadcast on the...

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5 December 1922

Children's Hour was first broadcast on the BBC .
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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24 December 1922: The first play written for radio, Phyllis...

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24 December 1922

The first play written for radio, Phyllis Twigg 's The Truth About Father Christmas, was broadcast in the UK by the BBC .
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
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Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
364
Collini, Stefan. “Hierophants”. London Review of Books, 6 Sept. 2007, pp. 25-7.
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13 February 1923: The BBC opened a radio station at Cardiff,...

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13 February 1923

The BBC opened a radio station at Cardiff, Wales; it made its first broadcast in Welsh on 8 November.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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2 May 1923: Under the supervision of Margaret Bondfield...

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2 May 1923

Under the supervision of Margaret Bondfield and the Women's Advisory Committee , the BBC 's radio programme Women's Hour began its two-year run.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

11 July 1923: With a radio programme about film, the BBC...

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11 July 1923

With a radio programme about film, the BBC began its first broadcasts of arts criticism.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
120
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
365

28 September 1923: The BBC released the first issue of the Radio...

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28 September 1923

The BBC released the first issue of the Radio Times, a weekly publication providing information and programme listings.
Harris, Melvin. ITN Book of Firsts. Michael O’Mara Books, 1994.
120
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
365
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
237
Hobsbawm, Eric John. “C (for Crisis)”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 15, 6 Aug. 2009, pp. 12-13.
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31 December 1923: The chimes of Big Ben were first broadcast...

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31 December 1923

The chimes of Big Ben were first broadcast on the BBC to usher in the New Year.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
237

31 January 1924: The BBC presented the first broadcast story,...

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31 January 1924

The BBC presented the first broadcast story, by A. J. Alan (pseudonym of Leslie H. Lambert ).
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
365

5 February 1924: The BBC began broadcasting the Greenwich...

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5 February 1924

The BBC began broadcasting the Greenwich time signal.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
365

6 March 1924: The BBC presented the first broadcast poetry...

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6 March 1924

The BBC presented the first broadcast poetry reading, by the poet John Drinkwater .
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
365

4 April 1924: The BBC began its national radio broadcasts...

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4 April 1924

The BBC began its national radio broadcasts to schools, with an item by Sir Walford Davies .
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
365

23 April 1924: The British Empire Exhibition opened at Wembley...

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23 April 1924

The British Empire Exhibition opened at Wembley with a speech by King George V —his first broadcast speech on the BBC .
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
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Turner, Ernest Sackville. “The Crystal Palace”. London Review of Books, 25 Nov. 1999, pp. 19-20.
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Texts

BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
The Listener. BBC.
Aiken, Joan, and Quentin Blake. Arabel’s Raven. BBC, 1972.
Brophy, Brigid. Pussy Owl. BBC, 1976.
Rendell, Ruth. Yes, Prime Minister. Editors Lynn, Jonathan and Antony Jay, BBC, 1987, 2 vols.
Westcott, Kathryn. “The Day the World Lit Up”. BBC News, BBC.
White, Antonia. BBC at War. BBC, 1942.