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Textual Production Iris Murdoch
IM spoke with her younger fellow-novelist A. S. Byatt about aspects of her craft, in an interview for BBC Radio Four which is now available on the internet.
“BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4.
Textual Production Berta Ruck
Shortly after this BR was invited to give a broadcast talk on Heroines in Fiction, and incurred serious displeasure by wishing goodnight to her mother on air at the end of the programme (while...
Textual Production Frances Hodgson Burnett
This was re-issued by Persephone Books in 2001 (together with, in the same volume, its sequel, The Methods of Lady Walderhurst). It was subsequently broadcast as a BBC Radio Four classic serial.
Persephone Books. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production Susan Hill
SH had already broadcast ten plays by the time the BBC published The Cold Country, and Other Plays for Radio, a collection of five of these pieces.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1976
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Caryl Churchill
CC 's unpublished manuscripts are held at the University of Bristol (Women's Theatre Archive, Department of Drama). The National Sound Archive at the British Library holds tape recordings of stage and radio plays. Radio play...
Textual Production Bernardine Evaristo
Evaristo contributes to various periodicals and reviews for the Guardian and the Independent. She has written drama and fiction for BBC Radio 4 .
Evaristo, Bernardine. Bernardine Evaristo, Writer. http://bevaristo.com/.
Textual Production Diana Athill
DA 's contributions to various periodicals sometimes enlarge on Stet in describing famous writers and her publishing relationships with them. In 2000 she wrote for the TLS on Jean Rhys and for Granta on V. S. Naipaul
Textual Production Sarah Daniels
Over the course of her career SD has become much involved in radio drama. From once believing that only sad bastards listen to BBC Radio 4 , she has progressed to becoming a regular contributor...
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
VW broadcast in a BBC series called Words Fail Me a talk with the title Craftsmanship; however, she used her talk to attack the title as wholly inappropriate to the use of words.
Woolf, Virginia. The Death of the Moth. Hogarth Press.
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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 Una Marson
Marson initially approached T. S. Eliot to write the preface, but he refused, so she turned to L. A. G. Strong , a British writer and a colleague at the BBC . She dedicated the...
Textual Production Shelagh Delaney
SD 's contributions to BBC radio include So Does the Nightingale (1980) and Don't Worry about Matilda (broadcast in 1983 and produced in 1987). Tell Me a Film, 2003, and Baloney Said Salome...
Textual Production Marghanita Laski
ML felt that Kipling was undervalued as a poet by her generation, for political rather than literary reasons. She selected and edited a volume of his poems (Kipling's English History) for the BBC in 1974.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Iris Murdoch
She had finished it in January that year, and dedicated it to John Simopoulos , a Greek friend who was gay. It was adapted for television (BBC2 ) by Reg Gadney in 1982.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins.
418, 421, 471
Textual Production Liz Lochhead
The BBC broadcast LL 's television play Sweet Nothings; it was published the same year.
Lochhead, Liz. True Confessions and New Clichés. Polygon Books.
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May 2009: The BBC aimed to demonstrate that poetry...

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May 2009

The BBC aimed to demonstrate that poetry is for everyone in a series launched this month: it succeeded in that sales of poetry soared in Britain.

Late October 2009: The BBC first opened to the public its sound...

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Late October 2009

The BBC first opened to the public its sound archive entitled Suffragette Voices.

6 October 2010: A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes,...

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6 October 2010

A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes , Last Letter, became available to the public when it was read on the BBC 's Channel 4 News by Jonathan Pryce .
Kennedy, Maev. “Unknown poem reveals Ted Hughes’ torment over death of Sylvia Plath”. The Guardian.

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