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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | Alison Uttley | After many rejections, AU
began a series involving the scapegrace Tim Rabbit with The Adventures of No Ordinary Rabbit, published by Faber
in November 1937, with illustrations by Alec Buckels
. Years later, a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Joanna Trollope | In 1985 JT
married her second husband, Ian Curteis
, a television director and dramatist known particularly for documentaries, dramatised biographies, and for challenging the left-wing hegemony at the BBC
. His works include an... |
Textual Production | Rose Tremain | |
Textual Production | Rose Tremain | |
Textual Production | Rose Tremain | About the time of publication this book was read on BBC
radio as A Book at Bedtime. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Publishing | Rose Tremain | After Merivel was nominated for but did not win the Wellcome Trust
book prize, RT
contributed a brave, wry, self-mocking essay to The Guardian under the title The art of not winning. Over the... |
politics | Violet Trefusis | VT
broadcast on literary topics for La France libre via the BBC
. This work earned her the Légion d'Honneur
, awarded in 1950. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo. 277 Trefusis, Violet, and Philippe Jullian. Don’t Look Round. Hutchinson. 187 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm
was IT
's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | The writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm
was VT
's uncle. A son of her grandfather's second marriage, he retained the original surname. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm... |
Publishing | Sue Townsend | ST
's greatest success began in, but did not stay in, the theatre world. One Sunday (a total collapse; I was exhausted) her eldest son enquired in that adolescent, self-pitying voice why they... |
Performance of text | Dylan Thomas | Many of these pieces had been first broadcast on BBC
radio, not including the furiously satirical How To Be a Poet but including a warm tribute to an actual poet, Wilfred Owen
. Borne Back Daily. http://borneback.com/ . 4 November 2008 |
Reception | Dylan Thomas | At another performance two weeks later (with the script this time complete), the cast took fourteen curtain calls before Thomas took the final one alone. Other American readings followed. DT
delivered the typed, completed manuscript... |
Reception | Dylan Thomas | The name of the fictional town or village of Llareggub (bugger all spelled backwards) had been in his mind for more than twenty years. He had discussed the project of a history of this... |
Performance of text | Dylan Thomas | It went out on the BBC Third Programme
, with the Welsh actor Richard Burton
taking Thomas's part as narrator, and with only three cosmetic cuts Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas. A New Life. Overlook Press. 377 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Angela Thirkell | At sixteen he left Australia (shortly after his mother returned to England) for Brussels, where he worked in business until, in 1935, he moved to England himself. He studied art, served in the army during... |
Timeline
8 December 1936: The BBC for the first time televised a full-length...
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8 December 1936
The BBC
for the first time televised a full-length ballet: William Walton
's Façade (derived from Edith Sitwell
) with Margot Fonteyn
and Robert Helpmann
.
9 December 1936: BBC television broadcast its first cookery...
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9 December 1936
BBC
television broadcast its first cookery demonstration: Moira Meighn
presented meals cookable in fifteen minutes on a single burner.
12 May 1937: The coronation of King George VI became the...
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12 May 1937
The coronation of King George VI
became the first outside broadcast by the BBC
Television Service.
21 June 1937: The Wimbledon tennis tournament was televised...
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21 June 1937
The Wimbledon tennis tournament was televised for the first time, by the BBC
.
11 November 1937: The BBC made its first television broadcast...
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11 November 1937
The BBC
made its first television broadcast of the Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph.
1938: BBC radio began a broadcasting service to...
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1938
BBC
radio began a broadcasting service to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and countries throughout Europe, which ran until 1943.
3 January 1938: The BBC's first foreign-language service...
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3 January 1938
The BBC
's first foreign-language service (in Arabic) began.
16 November 1938: The BBC televised for the first time a play...
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16 November 1938
The BBC
televised for the first time a play direct from the theatre, J. B. Priestley
's When We Are Married.
23 November 1938: The BBC televised underwater scenes for the...
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23 November 1938
The BBC
televised underwater scenes for the first time, during a training session for divers.
24 May 1939: BBC television presented the first high-definition...
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24 May 1939
BBC
television presented the first high-definition coverage of the Derby at Epsom.
23 August 1939: The BBC's London Calling was first broad...
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23 August 1939
The BBC
's London Calling was first broadcast.
1 September 1939: The BBC television service was stopped for...
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1 September 1939
The BBC
television service was stopped for reasons of national defence.
3 September 1939: Britain and France officially declared war...
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3 September 1939
Britain and France officially declared war on Germany.
19 September 1939: The BBC radio series It's That Man Again...
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19 September 1939
The BBC
radio series It's That Man Again began: known as, and pronounced as, ITMA, and ridiculing the alleged doings of Adolf Hitler
, it became immensely popular.
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