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Occupation | P. D. James | She retired to become a full-time writer at the end of 1979, six months before her sixtieth birthday. Then she served as a magistrate for Willesden (1979-82) and for Inner London (1984). She has been... |
Occupation | Jan Struther | Her broadcasting career did not end with the war, but continued sporadically in the USA and even occasionally in England with the BBC
. Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray. 265 |
Occupation | Germaine Greer | |
Occupation | George Orwell | |
Occupation | Storm Jameson | In her autobiography Jameson also briefly mentions compiling a report on women in munitions factories for the Ministry of Supply
at this time. She spoke on the BBC
at least once, in a radio address... |
Occupation | Una Marson | UM
became a full-time programme assistant on the BBC
's Empire Service from London, for which she managed the programme Calling the West Indies. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press. 149 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Ruth Padel | In 2007 she sat on the panel judging the Eric Gregory awards for new writing. In 2008 she became the first writer in residence at Somerset House
and the first poet in residence for the... |
Occupation | Freya Stark | After an August 1933 massacre of Assyrian civilians by the Iraqi Army, FS
was in demand as an authority on Iraq. She spoke at the BBC
, the Forum
, and the Royal Central Asia Society |
Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
served as a Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation
. She writes first that notice of the appointment came in December 1932, but twice later that she served from 1 January 1932. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 280, 288, 295 Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 280, 288, 295 |
Occupation | Una Marson | |
Occupation | Una Marson | UM
made a series of influential radio broadcasts for the BBC
's West Indian Service on the Women's Institute
movement in Britain. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press. 154, 156n50 |
Occupation | Virginia Woolf | Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
gave their first broadcast for the BBC
—a talk entitled Are Too Many Books Written and Published? Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 565 |
Occupation | Irene Handl | She was still working in the last year of her life, when she played another spiritualist medium role in Never Say Day, which was shown on BBC
Channel Four. |
Occupation | Berta Ruck | Television was proposed to her doubtfully as a medium so new to me, Ruck, Berta. An Asset to Wales. Hutchinson. 184 |
Occupation | Mary Kingsley | MK
helped to initiate the Royal African Society
, which was founded in her name in 1901 just after her death. Today the Society's website offers a biography and some striking pictures of MK
... |
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