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Performance of text Charlotte Mew
The dramatic version cannot be dated, but was completed by 1913.
Warner, Val. “New Light on Charlotte Mew”. PN Review, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1997, pp. 43-7.
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It did not reach production in CM 's lifetime, but the BBC presented it in 1953 as a half-hour radio drama.
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983.
309
According...
Performance of text Naomi Royde-Smith
A debate between NRS and Compton Mackenzie was held under the auspices of the Drama League , and broadcast live on BBC radio. Royde-Smith maintained that The Broadcast Play is an unsatisfactory Form of Art...
Performance of text Dylan Thomas
It went out on the BBC Third Programme , with the Welsh actor Richard Burton taking Thomas's part as narrator, and with only three cosmetic cuts
Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas. A New Life. Overlook Press, 2003.
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out of the originally stipulated bowdlerization. The BBC
Performance of text Anne Devlin
AD 's teleplay Naming the Names first shown on BBC Two television channel; it was also broadcast on BBC Radio later this year.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press, 1997.
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Performance of text Ruth Pitter
RP made her first appearance on a BBC radio programme in 1946, and quickly became a standby. From radio she proceeded to television, as a regular member from 1956 to 1960 of the team on...
Performance of text Jackie Kay
Several of the poems had been broadcast on various BBC radio and television programmes, including When You Move Out on BBC Radio Four's Woman's Hour, and JK 's BBC 2 poetry documentary, Twice Through...
Performance of text Elizabeth Ham
EH 's autobiography was published, nearly a century after her death, as Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, after excerpts had been read on BBC programmes and printed in The Listener.
Ham, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820, edited by Eric Gillett, Faber and Faber, 1945, pp. 5-12.
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Performance of text Kathleen Nott
A version of Offenbach 's comic opera Bluebeard was broadcast on BBC radio , adapted from the original by KN and Ernst Schoen , with a narrator to explain to listeners the plot and situations...
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, 1986.
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One of these poems, Mrs. Malone, was read on BBC Radio Four's...
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. 2014, http://deevy.nuim.ie/.
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Performance of text Michelene Wandor
MW 's first radio play, Correspondence, about a divorcee who becomes a student, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 .
Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
Performance of text Elaine Feinstein
The BBC broadcast EF 's television play Breath, first of a good deal of mostly unpublished drama she has written for TV and radio.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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 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 Harold Pinter
This play reached print the same year. Its origins lay in the story of a Jewish friend of Pinter's from Hackney who married a gentile, emigrated, and kept his marriage secret from his family. Hall

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May 2009: The BBC aimed to demonstrate that poetry...

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May 2009

The BBC aimed to demonstrate that poetry is for everyone in a series launched this month: it succeeded in that sales of poetry soared in Britain.
Crown, Sarah. “The Week in Books”. The Guardian, 27 June 2009, p. Review 5.
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Late October 2009: The BBC first opened to the public its sound...

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Late October 2009

The BBC first opened to the public its sound archive entitled Suffragette Voices.
“Suffragette Voices”. BBC, Woman’s Hour, 27 Oct. 2009.

6 October 2010: A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes,...

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6 October 2010

A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes , Last Letter, became available to the public when it was read on the BBC 's Channel 4 News by Jonathan Pryce .
Kennedy, Maev. “Unknown poem reveals Ted Hughes’ torment over death of Sylvia Plath”. The Guardian, 6 Oct. 2010.

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