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Textual Production Deborah Levy
DL has also written dramatic adaptations for BBC radio of others' work: of Chance Acquaintances by Colette , of Unless by Carol Shields , and of Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca , the last...
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 Stevie Smith
SS recorded a series of three programmes entitled Poems and Drawings, which was broadcast by the BBC .
Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber.
206, 231
Textual Production Elizabeth Jennings
She also joined with fellow-writers in letters to the Times on matters of public concern. She joined with forty well-known names (including Pamela Hansford Johnson ) on 25 September 1969 to defend keeping up the...
Textual Production Olivia Manning
After her return to England she sometimes wrote for the BBC (with which her husband was now a producer), providing scripts for the long-running serial Mrs. Dale's Diary, one number in the series A...
Textual Production Shelagh Delaney
BBC television ran The House that Jack Built, a six-part series written by SD about the marriage of a couple the author describes as a cowboy and a madonna.
Cunningham, John. “The Salford Madonna”. The Guardian.
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 Maureen Duffy
This novel was filmed for television by the BBC in 1988 as First Born.
Duffy, Maureen. The Microcosm. Virago.
prelims
Textual Production Frances Ridley Havergal
The most common theme of FRH 's poetry and hymns is an unswerving devotion to God, whom she generally refers to as The King or The Master. Her most popular hymns include Take My...
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 Caryl Churchill
Churchill thought of The Ants as a television play when she wrote it, but her agent sensibly sent it to radio.
Churchill, Caryl. Plays: One. Methuen.
xi
Between 1962 and 1973 CC wrote a number of short radio plays that...
Textual Production Naomi Jacob
A few months after her death, NJ 's Me—Thinking Things Over appeared in print, collecting her talks broadcast on the BBC 's Woman's Hour.
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin).
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Textual Production Stevie Smith
SS was interviewed by Derek Hart for the BBC Home Service; the interview is now available over the internet.
“BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4.
Textual Production Fay Weldon
It began as an idea floated to the BBC in 1985, before such formalities as a synopsis were required. Its author had suppposed it of rather local interest (for recipients of housing benefit in the...

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8 May 1945: This day, the one following the formal, unconditional...

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8 May 1945

This day, the one following the formal, unconditional German surrender to the Allies at Rheims in France, was called V. E. Day or VE Day.

Late 1945: André Deutsch established the publishing...

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Late 1945

André Deutsch established the publishing firm Allan Wingate in Great Cumberland Street, London.

3 September 1945: The Forces Educational Broadcasts began on...

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3 September 1945

The Forces Educational Broadcasts began on BBC radio.

4 March 1946: The BBC broadcast the first Housewives' Choice...

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4 March 1946

The BBC broadcast the first Housewives' Choice programme.

24 March 1946: Alistair Cooke made his first Letter from...

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24 March 1946

Alistair Cooke made his first Letter from America broadcast for the BBC . This series was meant to run for thirteen weeks, but when its last new instalment aired on 20 February 2004 it was...

7 June 1946: The BBC television service resumed after...

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7 June 1946

The BBC television service resumed after the war.

8 June 1946: Britain's Victory Parade marking the end...

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8 June 1946

Britain's Victory Parade marking the end of the Second World War was televised by the BBC .

7 July 1946: BBC television broadcast to children for...

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7 July 1946

BBC television broadcast to children for the first time, in For the Children.

29 September 1946: The BBC's Third Programme began radio br...

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29 September 1946

The BBC 's Third Programme began radio broadcasting.

7 October 1946: The BBC first broadcast a new programme:...

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7 October 1946

The BBC first broadcast a new programme: Woman's Hour. (It succeeded to a short-lived Women's Hour, first broadcast on 2 May 1923.)

6 February 1947: The Fourteen-Day Rule was formalized in Britain,...

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6 February 1947

The Fourteen-Day Rule was formalized in Britain, by which no bill coming before parliament within the next two weeks was to be discussed on the BBC .

6 November 1947: Designed for Women with Jeanne Heal was first...

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6 November 1947

Designed for Women with Jeanne Heal was first aired on BBC television.

20 November 1947: Princess Elizabeth married the Duke of Edinburgh;...

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20 November 1947

Princess Elizabeth married the Duke of Edinburgh ; BBC radio broadcast the wedding service, and BBC television covered the procession as well.

1948: Leading obstetrician and gynaecologist Josephine...

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1948

Leading obstetrician and gynaecologist Josephine Barnes gave great offence with a series of talks on BBC radio about women's health. Subjects like bleeding, ovaries, and hormonal changes were deemed unfit for airing in public.

1948: Leading obstetrician and gynaecologist Josephine...

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1948

Leading obstetrician and gynaecologist Josephine Barnes gave great offence with a series of talks on BBC radio about women's health. Subjects like bleeding, ovaries, and hormonal changes were deemed unfit for airing in public.

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