“BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4.
BBC
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Textual Production | Fleur Adcock | Absent from the volume is Miramar, a poem about her mother, and the difficult relationship they had while the poet was in her teens. This is available on the BBC World Service
website. |
Textual Production | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
did an interview with Christopher Cook
for the BBC World Service
, which is available on the internet from their Audio Interviews series. |
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 |
Textual Production | Malorie Blackman | She had already written a televised version of her own Pig-Heart Boy (shown by the BBC
on 7 December 1999) and several episodes each for the tv series Byker Grove and Whizziwig (of which only... |
Textual Production | Marghanita Laski | In July 1970 ML
conducted two televised interviews for the BBC
with Archbishop Anthony Bloom
on the topic of God and Man. These were published the following year in Bloom's book of the same... |
Textual Production | Deborah Moggach | |
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. |
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. 166 |
Textual Production | Susan Hill | SH
began reviewing books for Time and Tide as an undergraduate. After taking her degree she spent five years as book-review editor for the Coventry Evening Telegraph before returning to fiction. By the mid-1960s she... |
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. 14 |
Textual Production | Marina Warner | |
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. ii |
Textual Production | Harold Pinter | Writing for radio (the 6 Third Programme
, precursor of Radio Three
), television, and West End revues (put on by Michael Codron
) turned out to be a lifeline for Pinter after the failure... |
Textual Production | Sarah Daniels | SD
's radio play for three characters on the topic of breast cancer, Cross My Heart and Hope to Fly, was broadcast by the BBC on 22 March 2002, produced and directed by Sally Avens |
Textual Production | Sarah Kane | Kane used this pseudonym to conceal her identity, first at a lunchtime reading and then at the Traverse Theatre, in an attempt to cast off her reputation for obscenity and violence. The programme included a... |
Timeline
21 June 1969: Queen Elizabeth II and her family, in tune...
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21 June 1969
Queen Elizabeth II
and her family, in tune with the lowering of boundaries of the time period, provided the BBC
unprecedented access to their lives for the documentary The Royal Family.
10 April 1974: The Annan Committee began work on its enquiry...
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10 April 1974
The Annan Committee
began work on its enquiry into the structure, funding, and future of British broadcasting.
5 November 1974: Shirley Gee's first radio play, Stones, was...
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5 November 1974
1976: Angela Rippon became the first woman newsreader...
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1976
Angela Rippon
became the first woman newsreader on British television (BBC
); the job lasted only six years, though she acquired an enthusiastic public.
By 11 October 1976: More people in Britain held licences for...
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By 11 October 1976
More people in Britain held licences for colour television sets than for black and white: the licence fee continued, to fund the BBC
.
28 February 1977: Moonshine, a play by Shirley Gee, was produced...
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28 February 1977
16 August 1979: BBC Radio 4 broadcast Shirley Gee's Bedr...
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16 August 1979
1980: Shirley Gee's Typhoid Mary was included in...
Women writers item
1980
Shirley Gee
's Typhoid Mary was included in the BBC
's Best Radio Plays of 1979: The Giles Cooper Award Winners.
16 October 1987: In the early hours of the morning a violent...
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16 October 1987
In the early hours of the morning a violent storm battered the south of England, with winds reaching a hundred kilometres an hour in some places.
24 May 1988: The Local Government Act came into force...
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24 May 1988
The Local Government Act came into force in Britain, containing the highly controversial section 28, forbidding local authorities from promoting homosexuality.
1991: The Listener, founded early in 1929 as the...
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1991
The Listener, founded early in 1929 as the journal of the BBC
, ceased publication.
22 April 1993: Young white thugs made an unprovoked knife...
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22 April 1993
Young white thugs made an unprovoked knife attack on a Black teenager, Stephen Lawrence
, and a friend with whom he was waiting at a bus-stop in Eltham, south-east London. The pair ran, but Stephen...
16 June 2003: A BBC television quiz programme, The Professionals...
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16 June 2003
A BBC
television quiz programme, The Professionals (successor to University Challenge), which pits against each other teams of journalists, meteorologists, psychiatrists or whatever, fielded a team of poets.
10 September 2003: Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of...
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10 September 2003
Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of the Week a website entitled Poetry Landmarks of Britain: a map of poetic assocations plotted on an interactive map of Britain, searchable by region or category.
20 June 2006: The BBC cancelled its flagship pop music...
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20 June 2006
The BBC
cancelled its flagship pop music programme, Top of the Pops, after forty-two years on the air.
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