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Performance of text Hilary Mantel
HM read her contribution to BBC Radio 4 's Talking to Myself, in which authors address their earlier selves: a letter to herself at the age of seven, excerpted from her Giving Up the Ghost.
“Talking to Myself”. BBC Radio 4.
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 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 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 Harold Pinter
The plays were heard on BBC radio in 1968, while awaiting a licence for the stage.
qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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 Hilary Mantel
HM 's short-story volume Learning to Talk was published to coincide with a dramatisation of the stories on BBC Radio 4 's Woman's Hour and to follow closely on the publication of Giving Up the Ghost.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
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.
147
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 Samuel Beckett
SB 's first radio play, All That Fall, was broadcast by the BBC .
Tayler, Christopher. “Under–the–Table–Talk”. London Review of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 6, 19 Mar. 2015, pp. 19-23.
19
Performance of text Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS organised an experimental radio mystery play, The Scoop, by herself and Detection Club members E. C. Bentley , Anthony Berkeley , Freeman Wills Crofts , and Clemence Dane . It was broadcast serially on the BBC .
Sayers, Dorothy L. et al. “The Scoop: Parts I-XII”. The Listener, Vol.
5
.
Performance of text Philip Larkin
Still struggling, PL published in 1954 an untitled leaflet of poems with the Fantasy Press of Eynsham in Oxfordshire (number 21 of their Fantasy Poets). His poems were also by this time being read...

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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