“BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4.
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Textual Production | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
did an interview with Christopher Cook
for the BBC World Service
, which is available on the internet from their Audio Interviews series. |
Textual Production | Sarah Daniels | SD
's radio play for three characters on the topic of breast cancer, Cross My Heart and Hope to Fly, was broadcast by the BBC on 22 March 2002, produced and directed by Sally Avens |
Textual Production | Olivia Manning | |
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 | Ray Strachey | RS
was a prolific essayist who regularly wrote for many American and British publications, including The Nation and Athenæum, The Spectator, The Daily Mail, The Observer, and the New York Evening... |
Textual Production | Anne Devlin | BBC Two
aired A Woman Calling, AD
's first television play, adapted from her own short story Passages, and produced by her husband, Chris Parr
. Devlin, Anne. Ourselves Alone. Faber and Faber. 160 Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press. 95 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
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 | Margaret Laurence | |
Textual Production | Susan Hill | It was adapted as a BBC
radio play and re-titled as Miss Lavender is Dead, in 1970. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 14 |
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. 34: 261 |
Textual Production | Beryl Bainbridge | |
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 | Enid Blyton | EB
was interviewed by Marjorie Anderson
for the BBC Home Service
, a programme later re-broadcast on BBC Woman's Hour. “BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4. |
Textual Production | Anne Devlin | |
Textual Production | E. Arnot Robertson | EAR
made her first BBC
broadcast, Travel and Yachting on English Rivers, and was also heard in unrehearsed debate on issues of gender with Rose Macaulay
. Mason, Edward J., and Tony Shryane. “My Word! (1956-1990)”. Radio Days: Whirligig: 1950’s British Radio Nostalgia. Devlin, Polly, and E. Arnot Robertson. “Introduction”. Four Frightened People, Virago, p. vii - xix. xvi |
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19 May 1924: The BBC radio made the first broadcast of...
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19 May 1924
The BBC
radio made the first broadcast of the song of a nightingale.
12 June 1924: Compton Mackenzie presented the first disc-jockey...
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12 June 1924
Compton Mackenzie
presented the first disc-jockey programme on BBC
radio.
15 September 1924: The BBC began broadcasting in Belfast, Northern...
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15 September 1924
The BBC
began broadcasting in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
3 October 1924: The BBC radio presented its first outside...
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3 October 1924
The BBC
radio presented its first outside broadcast, from London Zoo.
13 October 1924: The BBC broadcast its first election address:...
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13 October 1924
The BBC
broadcast its first election address: Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
speaking at a mass meeting in Glasgow.
1925: An article in Punch coined the term middle-brow...
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1925
An article in Punch coined the term middle-brow (on analogy with highbrow) for people who are hoping that someday they will get used to the stuff they ought to like.
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
27
, No. 3, pp. 303-31. 304 n3
17 July 1925: The Radio Supplement was first issued by...
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17 July 1925
The Radio Supplement was first issued by the BBC
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16 November 1925-13 March 1926: Alan Cobham and his crew made the first round-trip...
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16 November 1925-13 March 1926
1926: The BBC set up an Advisory Committee on Spoken...
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1926
The BBC
set up an Advisory Committee on Spoken English, with the aim of enforcing uniformity and eliminating the use of regional accents.
26 May 1926: The BBC for the first time broadcast speeches...
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26 May 1926
The BBC
for the first time broadcast speeches from the House of Lords
.
Saturday 19 June 1926: About a hundred thousand participants of...
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Saturday 19 June 1926
About a hundred thousand participants of the Peacemakers' Pilgrimage (all wearing blue armbands showing the white dove of peace and the word Pax) converged on Hyde Park in London.
By October 1926: The BBC named Hilda Matheson as its first...
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By October 1926
The BBC
named Hilda Matheson
as its first Director of Talks, one of the most highly paid jobs for a woman in any organisation at that time, as her biographer puts it.
Carney, Michael. Stoker. Published by the author.
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31 December 1926-1 January 1927: The British Broadcasting Company was dissolved...
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31 December 1926-1 January 1927
The British Broadcasting Company
was dissolved and the British Broadcasting Corporation
was constituted under Royal Charter for ten years.
1927: The BBC's first female governor, Ethel Snowden,...
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1927
The BBC
's first female governor, Ethel Snowden
, was appointed.
25 April 1928: Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer,...
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25 April 1928
Winston Churchill
, Chancellor of the Exchequer, made the first budget speech to be broadcast on the BBC
.
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