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Performance of text Charlotte Mew
The dramatic version cannot be dated, but was completed by 1913.
Warner, Val. “New Light on Charlotte Mew”. PN Review, Vol.
24
, No. 1, 1997, pp. 43-7.
44
It did not reach production in CM 's lifetime, but the BBC presented it in 1953 as a half-hour radio drama.
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983.
309
According...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Elizabeth Ham
EH 's autobiography was published, nearly a century after her death, as Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, after excerpts had been read on BBC programmes and printed in The Listener.
Ham, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820, edited by Eric Gillett, Faber and Faber, 1945, pp. 5-12.
5
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 Kathleen Nott
A version of Offenbach 's comic opera Bluebeard was broadcast on BBC radio , adapted from the original by KN and Ernst Schoen , with a narrator to explain to listeners the plot and situations...
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

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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