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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Performance of text | Timberlake Wertenbaker | |
Textual Production | Timberlake Wertenbaker | Writing for these genres as well as for the stage, TW
often revisits and reshapes the work of earlier writers. She wrote the screenplay for The Children, a Film Four International
production (1990) adapted... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
seems to have first met Hilda Matheson
just before the latter took over the role of central player in Vita Sackville-West
's love-life. But Matheson (director of talks for the BBC
, soon to... |
Textual Production | Dorothy Wellesley | The selection was made in conjunction with BBC
staff for a series of readings that autumn; it consisted of the work of poets born (so far as could be ascertained) since 1880, and therefore under... |
politics | Fay Weldon | Weldon wrote a fighting speech for the awards ceremony, protesting .about publishers' treatment of authors. She claimed later to have shown it ahead of time to the organisers, but I suppose they hadn't bothered to... |
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... |
Publishing | Fay Weldon | |
Reception | Sarah Waters | SW
had not expected her book to travel beyond the lesbian community, but she was in for a surprise. Sarah, and Lee. “Great LezBritain: Sarah Waters talks inspiration, adaptations at World Book Night”. AfterEllen.com, pp. 1-2. |
Performance of text | Sarah Waters | She carried out as much research as available sources permitted into lesbian lives in England of the 1940s, and spent four years working on this novel (as compared with one year for her first). She... |
Reception | Marina Warner | Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute
(1992), Trinity College, Cambridge
(1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University
(1999), Stanford University
(2000), and All Souls College
, Oxford (2001). She... |
Textual Production | Marina Warner | |
Textual Production | Marina Warner | |
Publishing | Marina Warner | Extraordinarily prolific, MW
has contributed innumerable articles and reviews to periodicals, including the Independent, the London Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, the Sunday Times, the Times Literary... |
Performance of text | Michelene Wandor | MW
's first radio play, Correspondence, about a divorcee who becomes a student, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4
. Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/. |
Performance of text | Michelene Wandor | MW
's early radio play on the life and work of Antonia White
, Dust in the Sugar House, was broadcast on the BBC
. Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/. |
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19 May 1924: The BBC radio made the first broadcast of...
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19 May 1924
The BBC
radio made the first broadcast of the song of a nightingale.
12 June 1924: Compton Mackenzie presented the first disc-jockey...
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12 June 1924
Compton Mackenzie
presented the first disc-jockey programme on BBC
radio.
15 September 1924: The BBC began broadcasting in Belfast, Northern...
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15 September 1924
The BBC
began broadcasting in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
3 October 1924: The BBC radio presented its first outside...
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3 October 1924
The BBC
radio presented its first outside broadcast, from London Zoo.
13 October 1924: The BBC broadcast its first election address:...
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13 October 1924
The BBC
broadcast its first election address: Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
speaking at a mass meeting in Glasgow.
1925: An article in Punch coined the term middle-brow...
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1925
An article in Punch coined the term middle-brow (on analogy with highbrow) for people who are hoping that someday they will get used to the stuff they ought to like.
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
27
, No. 3, pp. 303-31. 304 n3
17 July 1925: The Radio Supplement was first issued by...
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17 July 1925
The Radio Supplement was first issued by the BBC
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16 November 1925-13 March 1926: Alan Cobham and his crew made the first round-trip...
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16 November 1925-13 March 1926
1926: The BBC set up an Advisory Committee on Spoken...
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1926
The BBC
set up an Advisory Committee on Spoken English, with the aim of enforcing uniformity and eliminating the use of regional accents.
26 May 1926: The BBC for the first time broadcast speeches...
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26 May 1926
The BBC
for the first time broadcast speeches from the House of Lords
.
Saturday 19 June 1926: About a hundred thousand participants of...
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Saturday 19 June 1926
About a hundred thousand participants of the Peacemakers' Pilgrimage (all wearing blue armbands showing the white dove of peace and the word Pax) converged on Hyde Park in London.
By October 1926: The BBC named Hilda Matheson as its first...
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By October 1926
The BBC
named Hilda Matheson
as its first Director of Talks, one of the most highly paid jobs for a woman in any organisation at that time, as her biographer puts it.
Carney, Michael. Stoker. Published by the author.
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31 December 1926-1 January 1927: The British Broadcasting Company was dissolved...
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31 December 1926-1 January 1927
The British Broadcasting Company
was dissolved and the British Broadcasting Corporation
was constituted under Royal Charter for ten years.
1927: The BBC's first female governor, Ethel Snowden,...
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1927
The BBC
's first female governor, Ethel Snowden
, was appointed.
25 April 1928: Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer,...
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25 April 1928
Winston Churchill
, Chancellor of the Exchequer, made the first budget speech to be broadcast on the BBC
.
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