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Textual Production Margaret Laurence
This book began with a commission from the BBC to write four programmes about Nigerian literature. ML gave herself a crash course in the subject, about which she was very enthusiastic, and expanded her radio...
Textual Production Susan Hill
It was adapted as a BBC radio play and re-titled as Miss Lavender is Dead, in 1970.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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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
Textual Production Shena Mackay
This brings together the contents of her three previous volumes of stories (putting those from the latest volume first), and adds two uncollected stories (one of them commissioned for BBC Radio 4 , 1993).
Mackay, Shena. Collected Short Stories. Penguin.
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Textual Production Beryl Bainbridge
When she was pregnant for the first time, BB set about trying to earn some money by writing and recording a story for BBC children's radio. Ceedy Man and the Bellringers developed into a series...
Textual Production Sarah Daniels
The Sound Barrier by SD , broadcast on Radio 4 in 2004 and repeated in 2007, was directed by Sally Avens . Daniels had at first planned to call it The Long Silence. Her...
Textual Production Enid Blyton
EB was interviewed by Marjorie Anderson for the BBC Home Service , a programme later re-broadcast on BBC Woman's Hour.
“BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4.
Textual Production Anne Devlin
AD 's television play The Long March was shown on BBC One .
Devlin, Anne. Ourselves Alone. Faber and Faber.
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Cerquoni, Enrica. “In Conversation with Anne Devlin”. Theatre Talk: Voices of Irish Theatre Practitioners, edited by Lilian Chambers et al., Carysfort Press, pp. 107-23.
107
Textual Production Deborah Moggach
DM has written a number of TV screenplays, both from her own prose and that of others, and in the form of original scripts, from which several of her novels were expanded. She has adapted...
Textual Production Helen Dunmore
This was the first of HD 's novels to be published in the United States (in 1997). In 2001, HD participated in a discussion of the work on BBC 's Book Club show.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
267
Textual Production Marina Warner
MW 's first filmscript was followed by two others written for Cinderella and Imaginary Women, both produced in 1986. She also wrote a television script for Tell Me More, screened on BBC 's...
Textual Production Ivy Compton-Burnett
The BBC did a pre-publication adaptation by Christopher Sykes : before the book appeared ICB 's friend Elizabeth Taylor called it the new short BBC novel.
Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen.
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Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Textual Production Eleanor Farjeon
One spur to this late work was Farjeon's indignation at a BBC radio programme in 1953 about Thomas, which was repeated despite her protest after the first broadcast. The programme maintained that she had been...
Textual Production Sara Maitland
In due time they followed this sequel volume with a twentieth-anniversary set of stories broadcast by the BBC .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Textual Production G. B. Stern
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...

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15 October 1951: BBC television broadcast its first live election...

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15 October 1951

BBC television broadcast its first live election address, given by Lord Samuel .

15 February 1952: The funeral of King George VI was aired on...

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15 February 1952

The funeral of King George VI was aired on both BBC television and radio.

8 July 1952: The BBC broadcast its first public transmission...

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8 July 1952

The BBC broadcast its first public transmission of television from Paris, using French equipment.

6 February 1953: Singer Kathleen Ferrier collapsed during...

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6 February 1953

Singer Kathleen Ferrier collapsed during Gluck 's opera Orfeo at Covent Garden ; she never sang again, but died of cancer later this year.

16 April 1953: R. A. Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer,...

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16 April 1953

R. A. Butler , Chancellor of the Exchequer, made the first budget speech to be broadcast on BBC television.

2 June 1953: Queen Elizabeth II was crowned; the BBC's...

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2 June 1953

Queen Elizabeth II was crowned; the BBC 's coverage of this, the first televised coronation, was carried live in the UK, France, the Netherlands and West Germany.

15 June 1953: BBC television made its first broadcast from...

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15 June 1953

BBC television made its first broadcast from a ship at sea, during a Royal Naval Review.

1 November 1953: The BBC made its first television broadcast...

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1 November 1953

The BBC made its first television broadcast of Anglican Holy Communion.

7 October 1954: The BBC aired its first television coverage...

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7 October 1954

The BBC aired its first television coverage of an annual Party Conference (that of the Conservatives, held in Blackpool).

December 1954: Winston Churchill, as Prime Minister, intervened...

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December 1954

Winston Churchill , as Prime Minister, intervened to block a planned BBC programme (with a woman producer) about the prospect of the H-bomb and the effects of fallout.

23 December 1954: The BBC broadcast a hard-hitting radio talk...

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23 December 1954

The BBC broadcast a hard-hittingradio talk by Bertrand Russell : Man's Peril, about the threat of nuclear war and the need for action to avoid it.

13 April 1955: The BBC television show For Deaf Children...

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13 April 1955

The BBC television show For Deaf Children was first aired.

22 September 1955: BBC television acquired its first commercially...

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22 September 1955

BBC television acquired its first commercially sponsored competitor when ITV (Independent Television) began broadcasting alternative programmes.

22 September 1955: BBC television acquired its first commercially...

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22 September 1955

BBC television acquired its first commercially sponsored competitor when ITV (Independent Television) began broadcasting alternative programmes.

28 March 1956: The BBC's Crystal Palace television station...

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28 March 1956

The BBC 's Crystal Palace television station was opened.

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