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By the date of her retirement, Pym's annual salary was a low £1,764. She and her sister Hilary lived on this and on Hilary's income as a BBC producer. Pym's books had at this date...

This house had enormous sash windows, pouring in light . . . . a groundwork of timeless elegance and beauty. The move (made because of her husband's new job with the BBC ) meant...

In early October 1994 RG flew to Delhi for a final visit to India, travelling with a BBC crew to make a film about her life for the programme Bookmark. They went to Kashmir...

They had a permit for the early part of their journey, and relied on the inaccessability of later stages to protect them from unwelcome official notice. Their route, which lay through the remote province of...

She continued to travel extensively over the subsequent decades, occasionally with the BBC and other film crews, and more often with her various godchildren (among whom she was known to favour her godsons).

Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad,MAH gives a long, evocative first chapter to her parents and her childhood. She adds...

In The Heroes of Clone Kennedy uses a present-day frame story, and the different interpretations of twentieth-century commentators, to present a mid-Victorian woman writer, Dorothea Harding, who used a frame story to convey a tale...

Dear Octopus was revived almost immediately at the Adelphi , in July and August of 1940, and it remains DS 's most frequently revived play. It was published by Heinemann in 1938. It...

NA 's short stories have appeared in the magazine Prospect, on BBC Radio 4 , and in various anthologies.

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...

GBS did her writing early in the day: sometimes before breakfast, always from ten to one. The major collection of her papers at Boston University includes letters and proofs. More letters are in the...

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.

This book was adapted as a serial on the BBC radio programme Woman's Hour.

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...

BBC One broadcast The Venus de Milo Instead, a teleplay by AD .