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Performance of text Agatha Christie
AC had written two plays, Black Coffee (1930) and Akhnaton (written in 1937 but not published until 1973), before adapting her novel Ten Little Niggers for the stage. This opened at St James's Theatre ,...
Performance of text Ruth Padel
The earliest stories that RP mentions on her website are two that appeared in journals in 2001: Tigersex in the Dublin Review in May and The Last Tiger in Prospect Magazine in September. We're So...
Performance of text Elaine Feinstein
Two of these poems, Getting Older and Urban Lyric were read on BBC Radio Four 's Woman's Hour programme, and appear in the Woman's Hour 50th Anniversary Poetry Collection, 1996.
McLoughlin, Pat, editor. Woman’s Hour: 50th Anniversary Poetry Collection. Penguin.
150, 162
Performance of text Ruth Pitter
RP made her first appearance on a BBC radio programme in 1946, and quickly became a standby. From radio she proceeded to television, as a regular member from 1956 to 1960 of the team on...
Performance of text Teresa Deevy
Its rejection was a heavy blow, since it signalled a change of attitude towards Deevy's work which had been brewing for several years.
The Teresa Deevy Archive. http://deevy.nuim.ie/.
Introduction
Wife to James Whelan was heard on BBC radio in Northern...
Performance of text Jackie Kay
Several of the poems had been broadcast on various BBC radio and television programmes, including When You Move Out on BBC Radio Four's Woman's Hour, and JK 's BBC 2 poetry documentary, Twice Through...
Performance of text Elizabeth Bowen
EB , Graham Greene , and V. S. Pritchett read on the BBC Third Programme letters which they had exchanged about the writer's role in society.
Greene, Graham. Graham Greene. A Life in Letters. Editor Greene, Richard, Alfred A. Knopf.
147
Performance of text Naomi Royde-Smith
A debate between NRS and Compton Mackenzie was held under the auspices of the Drama League , and broadcast live on BBC radio. Royde-Smith maintained that The Broadcast Play is an unsatisfactory Form of Art...
Performance of text Buchi Emecheta
BE 's teleplayA Kind of Marriage was aired by BBC Television as part of their Commonwealth Plays series.
Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann.
203, 213-14
Umeh, Marie, editor. Emerging Perspectives on Buchi Emecheta. Africa World Press.
459
Performance of text Alison Fell
They then adapted it for BBC Radio 3 , which broadcast it the following month. The script is among AF 's papers.
“Inventory. Acc. 12394. Alison Fell”. National Library of Scotland.
Performance of text Teresa Deevy
Radio Éireann broadcast more of her radio plays: Dignity on 17 January 1947 and Light Falling on 9 March 1947. The latter was repeated by both BBC Northern Ireland and BBC nationally, while BBC...
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
Performance of text Carol Ann Duffy
The BBC broadcast CAD 's radio play Loss.
Rees-Jones, Deryn. Carol Ann Duffy. Northcote House.
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Performance of text Iris Murdoch
IM 's verse play with music, The One Alone, had its world premiere, at 9.15 p.m. on BBC Radio Three.
Fletcher, John, and Cheryl Bove. Iris Murdoch: A Descriptive Primary and Annotated Secondary Bibliography. Garland Publishing.
177
Performance of text Louise Page
This was also performed in July the same year at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and was adapted for broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 23 November 1978 (after some thought of...

Timeline

May 2009: The BBC aimed to demonstrate that poetry...

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May 2009

The BBC aimed to demonstrate that poetry is for everyone in a series launched this month: it succeeded in that sales of poetry soared in Britain.

Late October 2009: The BBC first opened to the public its sound...

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Late October 2009

The BBC first opened to the public its sound archive entitled Suffragette Voices.

6 October 2010: A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes,...

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6 October 2010

A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes , Last Letter, became available to the public when it was read on the BBC 's Channel 4 News by Jonathan Pryce .
Kennedy, Maev. “Unknown poem reveals Ted Hughes’ torment over death of Sylvia Plath”. The Guardian.

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