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Her radio broadcast for the BBC on 2 April 1943, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of women's suffrage, was another memorable speech.

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...

It was televised by the BBC amid much media hyperbole. A paperback appeared in 1989, and another ten years later.

While she was working on Dance of the Years, in March 1942, MA spoke on the BBC Overseas Service about the changes wartime was making in traditional village life. (She had been named as...

The acknowledgements reveal the author's involvement with a rich mix of cultural activities. The opening poem, This is my house (two stanzas of seven short lines), was commissioned for a documentary film of the same...

About the time of publication this book was read on BBC radio as A Book at Bedtime.

The production was commissioned by the BBC , and took place at the Royal Festival Hall in London. It was conducted by Colin Davis , with Meriel Dickinson as soloist. The work was later...

Into this work, SB wrote later, she threw herself with a compound of conviction and self-doubt. Its sources were, besides the different narrating talents of her parents, the indiscretions of tutors and servants, the...

EMD also had several plays produced by BBC radio .

Ephemeral writings by CG have not been collected. A letter she wrote to Leonard Woolf at the New Statesman and Nation in 1933, setting out her considered judgement on Soviet Communism, was apparently designed for...

The book was entitled Dr. Gully's Story in the USA. Between portraying one of the leading characters in Six Criminal Women and composing the book (which she called a novel), EJ had written about...

It was originally written as a radio play for the BBC , but was never aired. With action set in the First World War and the 1920s, it may have been written then or at...

Other radio plays that MW has written about women writers include An Uncommon Love, based on Hannah Cullwick 's relationship with Arthur Munby , A Consoling Blue, about Jean Rhys 's writing of...

AL has had her short fiction read on BBC Radio 4 . Her story Deborah appeared in volume 7 of the British Council 's New Writing, 1998, alongside far more established names. Loose Change...

While working as a translator for the Council of Europe , JOF also set out, at her father's urging, to write professionally. Later, however, she felt she had made a false start as a writer...