BBC

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Anne Devlin
BBC One broadcast The Venus de Milo Instead, a teleplay by AD .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
245
“Anne Devlin”. Alan Brodie Representation.
Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press.
95
Textual Production Cicely Hamilton
Her radio broadcast for the BBC on 2 April 1943, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of women's suffrage, was another memorable speech.
Textual Production E. Nesbit
H. R. Millar did another set of illustrations for the book, somewhat derivative of those of Pryse.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
343
Because sales were disappointing, EN decided to advertise the book through what would now be called an...
Textual Production Agatha Christie
Dorothy Sayers invited AC to contribute a segment to a BBC radio crime-serial entitled Behind the Screen.
Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, http://Rutherford HSS.
195
Textual Production Nell Dunn
ND adapted her own fiction volume Up the Junction for television (the BBC 's Wednesday Play series) under the directorship of Ken Loach .
“Nell Dunn”. Alan Brodie Representation: Clients.
Gilbey, Ryan. “Putting the Manifesto before the Movie”. London Review of Books, pp. 34-5.
34
Textual Production Naomi Alderman
NA 's short stories have appeared in the magazine Prospect, on BBC Radio 4 , and in various anthologies.
Alderman, Naomi. Naomi Alderman. Novels and Games. http://www.naomialderman.com/about/.
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...
Textual Production Jane Gardam
This book was adapted as a serial on the BBC radio programme Woman's Hour.
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Textual Production Joan Riley
JR gives readings from writing in progress, in schools and at conferences. Her work has been dramatised for radio and television as well as widely anthologised. Her short stories have appeared in Storia I...
Textual Production Phyllis Bottome
The BBC commissioned PB to prepare a script to be transmitted to North America on the Democracy Marches radio programme.
Calder, Robert. Beware the British Serpent. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
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Textual Production Anne Devlin
The opening instalment of AD 's three-part television adaptation of D. H. Lawrence 's novel The Rainbow was first aired on BBC One .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
245
Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press.
95
Textual Production Vita Sackville-West
Her written journalism was complemented by public speaking and broadcasting on the BBC : on women's rights, literature, travel, and English society.
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research.
34: 261
She made her first radio broadcast on 18 April 1928, a...
Textual Production Agatha Christie
AC gave the first of two radio interviews preserved by the BBC ; in it she spoke of why she began writing and about her working methods and habits.
“BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4.
Textual Production Elizabeth Jane Howard
After the completion of the tetralogy, a television series was made from the novels, though the BBC cut back from the first proposal of six episodes per book, to six from each of the first...

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29 July 1948: The BBC broadcast a television programme...

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29 July 1948

The BBC broadcast a television programme on the opening of the Olympic Games from Wembley Stadium in still visibly bomb-damaged London. This was the first Olympics to be televised.

11 October 1948: The first outside BBC television broadcast...

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11 October 1948

The first outside BBC television broadcast was made: from Number 10 Downing Street for the Commonwealth Conference .

March 1949: Elizabeth Bowen's feature on 1918 was broadcast...

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March 1949

Elizabeth Bowen 's feature on 1918 was broadcast on the BBC 's Third Programme series A Year I Remember.

29 July 1949: BBC television aired its first weather b...

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29 July 1949

BBC television aired its first weather broadcast.

4 September 1949: The surface of the moon was televised by...

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4 September 1949

The surface of the moon was televised by the BBC for the first time, through a powerful telescope.

16 January 1950: The BBC made its first broadcast of Listen...

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16 January 1950

The BBC made its first broadcast of Listen with Mother.

23 February 1950: The General Election brought 84 percent of...

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23 February 1950

The General Election brought 84 percent of the British electorate out to vote. The BBC aired the first televised report of results of this election.

27 August 1950: The BBC made its first live television broadcast...

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27 August 1950

The BBC made its first live television broadcast from the Continent (from Calais) using outside broadcast equipment.

30 September 1950: The BBC aired its first live air-to-ground...

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30 September 1950

The BBC aired its first live air-to-ground television broadcast, from an aircraft in flight.

26 October 1950: The BBC made its first sound and television...

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26 October 1950

The BBC made its first sound and television broadcast from the House of Commons, on the occasion of the opening of the rebuilt chamber.

January 1951: The Beveridge Committee on Broadcasting reported...

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January 1951

The BeveridgeCommittee on Broadcasting reported that the propaganda power
“Media quotations from official sources”. Terra Media: Quotations.
of access through radio and television to millions of homes was too great to be allowed out of public institutional hands.

1 January 1951: After a one-week trial the previous May,...

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1 January 1951

After a one-week trial the previous May, The Archers, countryside soap-opera of BBC radio, began regular broadcasting; it soon attracted two million listeners.

May 1951: The BBC experimentally launched a comic radio...

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May 1951

The BBC experimentally launched a comic radio series, Crazy People; as The Goon Show, it ran for nine years and became a household word.

6 June 1951: The BBC made its first broadcast from Buckingham...

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6 June 1951

The BBC made its first broadcast from Buckingham Palace, on the occasion of a State Banquet for King Haakon of Norway.

4 October 1951: E. M. Forster's praise for the accomplishments...

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4 October 1951

E. M. Forster 's praise for the accomplishments of the BBC's Third Programme was published in The Listener.

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