“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
BBC
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Employer | Gillian Clarke | |
| Employer | Berta Ruck | |
| Employer | Naomi Jacob | NJ
went to work, displaying the energy of five women, qtd. in Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001. 162 |
| Employer | Joan Aiken | |
| Employer | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
was, she said, a tap-dancing member of Miss Thelma Broadbent
's Ensemble in Southport as a small child. At twelve she was recruited by the BBC
to work as a young broadcaster on Children's... |
| Employer | Antonia Fraser | While bringing up her children, AF
persevered with the writing career she had already launched. As the wife of a wealthy man, she did voluntary work of various kinds, chairing the Prison Committee
and, for... |
| Employer | Antonia White | AW
worked for the BBC
. At the end of this time she was sacked on grounds of her visible disgust with its routine of death & stagnation. qtd. in Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998. 275 Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998. 250, 275 Who Was Who. A. and C. Black, 1897–2026, Many volumes. |
| Employer | Monica Furlong | She wanted to be a journalist, but was rejected for the first job she applied for, on the Church Times (whose editor was then Rosamund Essex
). She was taken on as secretary to a... |
| Employer | Frances Horovitz | At the BBC
and Open UniversityFH
established herself as one of the most accomplished readers of contemporary poetry. As Frances Hooker
, she read for the BBC's Third Programme
(which, with a few shifts... |
| Employer | Rose Macaulay | RM
had a long-running career as a journalist: until part-way through the Second World War she combined a large output of novels with working as a critic and reviewer. She worked for Time and Tide... |
| Employer | Jo Shapcott | JS
began teaching English at Rolle College
in Exmouth (one of the three main campuses of the University of Plymouth
, which, however, is due to be relocated in a movement towards centralization). She then... |
| Employer | Andrea Levy | During her early, drifting years AL
worked designing woven textiles, but realised in about ten minutes that designing was not for her. Levy, Andrea. “Back to my Own Country”. British Library Windrush Stories, 2018. |
| Employer | Elizabeth Jane Howard | |
| Employer | Rebecca West | |
| Employer | Cecily Mackworth | In summer 1945, as the date of the general election approached, CM
began working for the Labour Party
: quite a good job in the research dept, but we are drowned in work. Hewett, Christopher, editor. The Living Curve : Letters to W. J. Strachan, 1929-1979. Taranman, 1984. 47 |
Timeline
19 May 1924: The BBC radio made the first broadcast of...
Building item
19 May 1924
The BBC
radio made the first broadcast of the song of a nightingale.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
366
12 June 1924: Compton Mackenzie presented the first disc-jockey...
Building item
12 June 1924
Compton Mackenzie
presented the first disc-jockey programme on BBC
radio.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
366
15 September 1924: The BBC began broadcasting in Belfast, Northern...
Building item
15 September 1924
The BBC
began broadcasting in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
366
Cathcart, Rex. The Most Contrary Region: The BBC in Northern Ireland 1924-1984. Blackstaff Press, 1984.
1
3 October 1924: The BBC radio presented its first outside...
Building item
3 October 1924
The BBC
radio presented its first outside broadcast, from London Zoo.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
366
13 October 1924: The BBC broadcast its first election address:...
National or international item
13 October 1924
The BBC
broadcast its first election address: Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
speaking at a mass meeting in Glasgow.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
366
1925: An article in Punch coined the term middle-brow...
Building item
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, Sept. 2001, pp. 303-31. 304 n3
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, Sept. 2001, pp. 303-31. 304 and n3
17 July 1925: The Radio Supplement was first issued by...
Building item
17 July 1925
The Radio Supplement was first issued by the BBC
.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
367
16 November 1925-13 March 1926: Alan Cobham and his crew made the first round-trip...
Building item
16 November 1925-13 March 1926
Alan Cobham
and his crew made the first round-trip flight from London to Cape Town.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
366
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
204
1926: The BBC set up an Advisory Committee on Spoken...
Building item
1926
The BBC
set up an Advisory Committee on Spoken English, with the aim of enforcing uniformity and eliminating the use of regional accents.
Menand, Louis. “Slips of the Tongue”. New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2001, pp. 112-16.
116, 114
26 May 1926: The BBC for the first time broadcast speeches...
Building item
26 May 1926
The BBC
for the first time broadcast speeches from the House of Lords
.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
237
Saturday 19 June 1926: About a hundred thousand participants of...
National or international item
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.
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
85
Ducey, Mitchell F., editor. Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Papers, 1915-1978. Microfilming Corporation of America, 1983.
3: 311
Times. Times Publishing Company.
New York Times. New York Times Company.
By October 1926: The BBC named Hilda Matheson as its first...
Building item
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, 1999.
23
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Carney, Michael. Stoker. Published by the author, 1999.
29, 23
31 December 1926-1 January 1927: The British Broadcasting Company was dissolved...
National or international item
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.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
237
1927: The BBC's first female governor, Ethel Snowden,...
Building item
1927
The BBC
's first female governor, Ethel Snowden
, was appointed.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
25 April 1928: Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer,...
National or international item
25 April 1928
Winston Churchill
, Chancellor of the Exchequer, made the first budget speech to be broadcast on the BBC
.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
369
Texts
No bibliographical results available.