“Talking to Myself”. BBC Radio 4.
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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. |
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 | |
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 | |
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.
Review 5
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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