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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.

JA 's first job was as a librarian at the UN Information Centre. After that she became features editor on the US pulp fiction magazine Argosy (not to be confused with the British periodical The...

At five JA bought a notebook with a gift of two shillings, to do her writing in. As a child she was a great spinner of fantasy tales, first for herself and later for her...

As the title indicates, JA recast this in book from pieces given on the popular BBC children's television programme Jackanory. The book was the first of a successful series.

NA 's short stories have appeared in the magazine Prospect, on BBC Radio 4 , and in various anthologies.

NA says this book was facilitated by the success of fictions about other, distinct communities: Zadie Smith 's White Teeth, Monica Ali 's Brick Lane, and especially influenced by Jeanette Winterson 's Oranges...

She also wrote Borrowed Time, 2011, a novel which is a spin-off from the BBC 's Doctor Who series, which she regards as fan fiction. In it the doctor and his helpers go undercover...

Another generically unusual work by NA is the script for a mini-drama filmed in Italy for the BBC , La Mappa Misteriosa, which is designed for anglophone listeners seeking to learn Italian. The players...

This hymn received the seal of approval from American evangelist Ira David Sankey , who sang it on the site of Calvary Hill in Jerusalem. The standard 1892 edition of John Julian 's...

While she was working on Dance of the Years, in March 1942, MA spoke on the BBC Overseas Service about the changes wartime was making in traditional village life. (She had been named as...

In July 1919, DA did a reading of a chapter of the book at a private party, which went better than anticipated, despite her nerves. She was offered an opportunity to do a lecture tour...

Meanwhile she prepared to receive evacuees from London, and volunteered for first aid work, nursing, and night shifts with the ARP (Air Raid Precaution) . After the war she became a member both of...

An ex-pacifist when the second world war broke out, DA recoiled from joining the forces or undertaking other war work, but eventually got an office job (the merest fetching and carrying) with the BBC at...

DA 's contributions to various periodicals sometimes enlarge on Stet in describing famous writers and her publishing relationships with them. In 2000 she wrote for the TLS on Jean Rhys and for Granta on V. S. Naipaul

The major novels have been repeatedly dramatised and filmed; the BBC has had great success with videos and DVDs of all six. They and the unfinished novels have been almost equally material for sequels, prequels...