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Textual Production Joan Riley
JR gives readings from writing in progress, in schools and at conferences. Her work has been dramatised for radio and television as well as widely anthologised. Her short stories have appeared in Storia I...
Textual Production Jeanette Winterson
The television adaptation of JW 's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was transmitted in three episodes on BBC Television ; the script was published the same year.
Winterson, Jeanette. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: Adapted from her novel by Jeanette Winterson. Pandora, 1990.
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Textual Production G. B. Stern
GBS often broadcast on the BBC . She reviewed books, and later remembered an encounter with an old typescript of a review of A. E. Gallatin 's Sir Max Beerbohm —Bibliographical Notes, 1944, during...
Textual Production Helen Dunmore
This was the first of HD 's novels to be published in the United States (in 1997). In 2001, HD participated in a discussion of the work on BBC 's Book Club show.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Textual Production Marina Warner
MW 's first filmscript was followed by two others written for Cinderella and Imaginary Women, both produced in 1986. She also wrote a television script for Tell Me More, screened on BBC 's...
Textual Production Sara Maitland
These stories (originally commissioned by the BBC for broadcast during the days of Holy Week, leading up to Good Friday) were not reprinted in Angel Maker: The Short Stories of Sara Maitland, which was...
Textual Production Ivy Compton-Burnett
The BBC did a pre-publication adaptation by Christopher Sykes : before the book appeared ICB 's friend Elizabeth Taylor called it the new short BBC novel.
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Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen, 1986.
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Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
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Textual Production Winsome Pinnock
Later the same year she featured in Lenny Henry 's ten-part BBC documentary series Raising The Bar: 100 Years Of Black British Theatre And Screen (along with historical figures like Una Marson ). She also...
Textual Production Alison Uttley
AU 's radio play about Mary Queen of Scots was broadcast by the BBC , which had also been airing readings of some of her stories.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph, 1986.
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Textual Production Sarah Kane
Kane used this pseudonym to conceal her identity, first at a lunchtime reading and then at the Traverse Theatre, in an attempt to cast off her reputation for obscenity and violence. The programme included a...
Textual Production Beryl Bainbridge
When she was pregnant for the first time, BB set about trying to earn some money by writing and recording a story for BBC children's radio. Ceedy Man and the Bellringers developed into a series...
Textual Production Sarah Daniels
The Sound Barrier by SD , broadcast on Radio 4 in 2004 and repeated in 2007, was directed by Sally Avens . Daniels had at first planned to call it The Long Silence. Her...
Textual Production Vita Sackville-West
Her written journalism was complemented by public speaking and broadcasting on the BBC : on women's rights, literature, travel, and English society.
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research, 1985.
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She made her first radio broadcast on 18 April 1928, a...
Textual Production E. M. Forster
In 2008 two separate collections appeared of uncollected essays and broadcasts by Forster: The BBC Talks of E. M. Forster, 1929-60: A Selected Edition, edited by Mary Lago and others, and The Creator as...
Textual Production Margaret Laurence
This book began with a commission from the BBC to write four programmes about Nigerian literature. ML gave herself a crash course in the subject, about which she was very enthusiastic, and expanded her radio...

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