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KJ has written scripts for radio programmes, like The Whale Road, about the arches made of whale bones which stand here and there in Britain (BBC Radio 3 , 2008), and Norn But...

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...

There were nine editions of Cranford during EG 's lifetime, but another 160 appeared between her death and 1947 (almost as many in the USA as in Britain), and it appeared twice in German translations...

Diaz needed the author's permission for the performance, and on November 5th she put an advertisement in the New Statesman to find her. At this point, Rhys was living in obscurity in the country, and...

The origin of the stage play was a radio play. Elizabeth Jenkins tells a story that this was based on the actual killing of a war evacuee by the farmer with whom he and his...

For The Times in the 1930s her subjects included the gold rush at Kakamega in Kenya's only tropical rain forest, and New Deal farming in the American South. In March 1938 she embarked...

The title punctures its own potential pretentiousness with reference to The Archers, the much-loved BBC radio serial of country life. Cope's prose style, like her poetry, is dialogic and punchy. When she gave up...

The third play, The Mask was inferior as a stage play, in AR 's later judgement, to its radio version (in which she collaborated with her cousin Robin Milford , who wrote the music, and...

The Man Who Stole a Tiger strikes a different note. It begins in Jerusalem but ranges as far as the Congo. A scrawny, tubercular soldier with a criminal record, presented without sympathy or understanding...

This play effectively portrays the aftermath in Britain of the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean , who fled to the Soviet Union on 25 May 1951 after years of spying for Communist Russia...

The Rainy Summer exemplifies her lively descriptions of landscape; it ends, Bees, humming in the storm, carry their cold / Wild honey to cold cells.Philip Larkin chose this poem (his only selection from...

Correspondents represented in the volume include Freya Stark , as well as Bernard Shaw , Siegfried Sassoon , and Walter de la Mare . This volume was adapted for television by the BBC in 1988, without crediting VM .

About half of these nineteen very short stories (averaging less than ten pages apiece) are reprinted from magazines—Stand, the Irish Tatler, Writing Women, London Magazine—or anthologies. Short Days, Long Nights...

In the particularly teasingly titled Go Tell It to Mrs. Golightly, 1977, a blind girl staying with her grandfather discovers a kidnapping.Joe and the Gladiator was filmed for BBC television in 1971.

This collection keeps in mind the Scots element in the title as well as the birth element. It interprets the latter broadly to include various metaphorical kinds of birth and renewal. KJ writes here in...