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Textual Production Muriel Spark
An Author's Note says that both stories and plays were written on the same creative wavelength,
Spark, Muriel. Voices At Play. Penguin.
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whether addressing the inner or outer ear. Rayner Heppenstall of the BBCThird Programme suggested that MS should...
Textual Production Kathleen Jamie
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...
Textual Production Josephine Tey
Gordon Daviot (also known as JT ) published a volume of eight one-act plays (of which all but one had been broadcast on BBC Radio during the Second World War), Leith Sands, and Other Short Plays.
Henderson, Jennifer Morag. Josephine Tey, a life. Sandstone Press.
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Roy, Sandra. Josephine Tey. Twayne.
25
Textual Production Elizabeth Gaskell
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...
Textual Production Deborah Moggach
DM published her twelfth novel, Close Relations, for which she also wrote the screenplay when it became a highly successful and slightly scandalous BBC television serial.
The title Close Relations has been used by...
Textual Production Michèle Roberts
MR judged, and commented on, this magazine's competition for new short stories in summer 2016.
Graffigny, Françoise de. The Peruvian Letters . . . . With An Additional Original Volume. Translator Roberts, Radagunda, Vol.
2 vols
, T. Cadell.
She contributes regularly to the BBC 's Woman's Hour and to its arts-and-ideas programme Night Waves. She has written...
Textual Production Alison Uttley
AU 's radio play about Mary Queen of Scots was broadcast by the BBC , which had also been airing readings of some of her stories.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph.
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Textual Production Andrea Levy
Levy says she began work on this novel after, as an adult, she at last got her mother talking about the earlier, Jamaican part of her life. At first she was very nervous writing a...
Textual Production Buchi Emecheta
In 1987 BE published Family Bargain, a book for schoolchildren commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation .
Olendorf, Donna, editor. Something About the Author 66. Gale Research.
66
Contemporary Literary Criticism. Gale Research.
128: 54
Textual Production Alison Fell
The National Library of Scotland holds a collection of AF 's diaries, notebooks, and drafts of poems, novels, plays, and radio and film scripts, audio recordings, programmes for BBC Radio Scotland , letters, and photos...
Textual Production Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
She included essays previously published in Time and Tide about her travels to far-off places such as Gibraltar, Morocco, Greece, Egypt, and the holy places of the earth:
Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda,. Notes on the Way. Books for Libraries Press.
2
Palestine...
Textual Production Jackie Kay
JK continues to publish stories in periodicals: for instance Wish I was here, commissioned for Guardian, 2 August 2003.
Kay, Jackie. “Wish I was here”. Guardian Weekly, pp. 50-3.
50
This story was broadcast on the BBC 's Radio Three during the same month.
Kay, Jackie. “Short story endings”. Mslexia, Vol.
20
, pp. 44-5.
45
Textual Production Maureen Duffy
One Goodnight, the first of MD 's two radio plays about the Irish writers Edith Somerville and Martin Ross , aired on the BBC .
“The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association.
Textual Production Andrea Levy
AL has had her short fiction read on BBC Radio 4 .
Hickman, Christie. “Andrea Levy: Under the skin of history”. The Independent.
Her story Deborah appeared in volume 7 of the British Council 's New Writing, 1998, alongside far more established names. Loose Change...
Textual Production Marina Warner
MW published Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time, a collection of six essays originally broadcast on radio earlier that year as the annual BBC Reith lectures.
Moseley, Merritt, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 194. Gale Research.
194: 286

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8 December 1936: The BBC for the first time televised a full-length...

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8 December 1936

The BBC for the first time televised a full-length ballet: William Walton 's Façade (derived from Edith Sitwell ) with Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann .

9 December 1936: BBC television broadcast its first cookery...

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9 December 1936

BBC television broadcast its first cookery demonstration: Moira Meighn presented meals cookable in fifteen minutes on a single burner.

12 May 1937: The coronation of King George VI became the...

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12 May 1937

The coronation of King George VI became the first outside broadcast by the BBC Television Service.

21 June 1937: The Wimbledon tennis tournament was televised...

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21 June 1937

The Wimbledon tennis tournament was televised for the first time, by the BBC .

11 November 1937: The BBC made its first television broadcast...

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11 November 1937

The BBC made its first television broadcast of the Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph.

1938: BBC radio began a broadcasting service to...

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1938

BBC radio began a broadcasting service to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and countries throughout Europe, which ran until 1943.

3 January 1938: The BBC's first foreign-language service...

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3 January 1938

The BBC 's first foreign-language service (in Arabic) began.

2 April 1938: The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race was televised...

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2 April 1938

The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race was televised for the first time on the BBC .

16 November 1938: The BBC televised for the first time a play...

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16 November 1938

The BBC televised for the first time a play direct from the theatre, J. B. Priestley 's When We Are Married.

23 November 1938: The BBC televised underwater scenes for the...

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23 November 1938

The BBC televised underwater scenes for the first time, during a training session for divers.

24 May 1939: BBC television presented the first high-definition...

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24 May 1939

BBC television presented the first high-definition coverage of the Derby at Epsom.

23 August 1939: The BBC's London Calling was first broad...

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23 August 1939

The BBC 's London Calling was first broadcast.

1 September 1939: The BBC television service was stopped for...

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1 September 1939

The BBC television service was stopped for reasons of national defence.

3 September 1939: Britain and France officially declared war...

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3 September 1939

Britain and France officially declared war on Germany.

19 September 1939: The BBC radio series It's That Man Again...

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19 September 1939

The BBC radio series It's That Man Again began: known as, and pronounced as, ITMA, and ridiculing the alleged doings of Adolf Hitler , it became immensely popular.

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