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Performance of text Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS 's retelling of the Nativity, He That Should Come, was broadcast on the BBC 's Children's Hour.
Brabazon, James. Dorothy L. Sayers. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1981.
171, 191
Gilbert, Colleen B. A Bibliography of the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers. Macmillan, 1978.
96-7
Performance of text Elaine Feinstein
The BBC broadcast EF 's television play Breath, first of a good deal of mostly unpublished drama she has written for TV and radio.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Performance of text Shena Mackay
Three of these stories had been read on BBC Radio 3 in 1982.
Mackay, Shena. Collected Short Stories. Penguin, 1994.
vii, viii
The volume appeared in paperback from Abacus in 1984.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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 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/.
Performance of text Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS 's cycle of plays on the life of Christ, The Man Born to be King, was broadcast on the BBC .
Gilbert, Colleen B. A Bibliography of the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers. Macmillan, 1978.
102
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, 1996.
150, 162
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. 2014, http://deevy.nuim.ie/.
Introduction
Wife to James Whelan was heard on BBC radio in Northern...
Performance of text Winsome Pinnock
WP 's radio play Clean Trade was performed on the BBC .
“Winsome Pinnock”. Kingston University London.
Performance of text Meiling Jin
It was read on BBC Radio 4 in August 1997.
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, 1994.
203, 213-14
Umeh, Marie, editor. Emerging Perspectives on Buchi Emecheta. Africa World Press, 1996.
459
Performance of text Michelene Wandor
BBC radio 4 broadcast MW 's radio play The Princess and the Carpenter, about the composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier and his patroness, Marie de Guise .
Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
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 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, 2007.
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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.
Crown, Sarah. “The Week in Books”. The Guardian, 27 June 2009, p. Review 5.
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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.
“Suffragette Voices”. BBC, Woman’s Hour, 27 Oct. 2009.

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, 6 Oct. 2010.

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