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Textual Production Nell Dunn
ND adapted her own fiction volume Up the Junction for television (the BBC 's Wednesday Play series) under the directorship of Ken Loach .
“Nell Dunn”. Alan Brodie Representation: Clients.
Gilbey, Ryan. “Putting the Manifesto before the Movie”. London Review of Books, 31 Oct. 2002, pp. 34-5.
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Textual Production Naomi Alderman
NA 's short stories have appeared in the magazine Prospect, on BBC Radio 4 , and in various anthologies.
Alderman, Naomi. Naomi Alderman. Novels and Games. 2016, http://www.naomialderman.com/about/.
Textual Production Josephine Tey
Gordon Daviot (also known as JT ) published a volume of eight one-act plays (of which all but one had been broadcast on BBC Radio during the Second World War), Leith Sands, and Other Short Plays.
Henderson, Jennifer Morag. Josephine Tey, a life. Sandstone Press, 2015.
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Roy, Sandra. Josephine Tey. Twayne, 1980.
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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 Rose Macaulay
RM was a hard-working critic, reviewer, and journalist. From the 1920s into the second world war she wrote for Time and Tide, The Spectator, and the New Statesman among other publications.
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991.
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Textual Production Phyllis Bottome
The BBC commissioned PB to prepare a script to be transmitted to North America on the Democracy Marches radio programme.
Calder, Robert. Beware the British Serpent. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004.
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Textual Production Anne Devlin
The opening instalment of AD 's three-part television adaptation of D. H. Lawrence 's novel The Rainbow was first aired on BBC One .
“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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Textual Production Katherine Mansfield
Scholar Claire Tomalin suspects that this refusal had to do with KM 's unacknowledged debt to Chekhov in The Child-Who-Was-Tired.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Mansfield was, however, feeling discouraged about all her work. In February, with The Garden...
Textual Production Agatha Christie
AC gave the first of two radio interviews preserved by the BBC ; in it she spoke of why she began writing and about her working methods and habits.
“BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4.
Textual Production Jackie Kay
JK continues to publish stories in periodicals: for instance Wish I was here, commissioned for Guardian, 2 August 2003.
Kay, Jackie. “Wish I was here”. Guardian Weekly, 2 Aug. 2003, pp. 50-3.
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This story was broadcast on the BBC 's Radio Three during the same month.
Kay, Jackie. “Short story endings”. Mslexia, Vol.
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, Jan. 2004, pp. 44-5.
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Textual Production Naomi Alderman
NA says this book was facilitated by the success of fictions about other, distinct communities: Zadie Smith 's White Teeth, Monica Ali 's Brick Lane, and especially influenced by Jeanette Winterson 's Oranges...
Textual Production Catherine Cookson
By the late 1980s, when she was past eighty herself and in precarious health, CC had become an industry that supported a vast empire, with hundreds of people dependent on her for their livelihood. This...
Textual Production Cicely Hamilton
Her radio broadcast for the BBC on 2 April 1943, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of women's suffrage, was another memorable speech.
Textual Production Andrea Levy
Levy says she began work on this novel after, as an adult, she at last got her mother talking about the earlier, Jamaican part of her life. At first she was very nervous writing a...
Textual Production Ann Oakley
It was televised by the BBC amid much media hyperbole.
Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo, 1992.
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A paperback appeared in 1989, and another ten years later.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Cochrane, Kira. “Ann Oakley: ’Barbara Wootton was too visionary’”. theguardian.com, 7 July 2011.

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