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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.
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Performance of text Daisy Ashford
In July 1919, DA did a reading of a chapter of the book at a private party, which went better than anticipated, despite her nerves. She was offered an opportunity to do a lecture tour...
Performance of text E. H. Young
The following year Cape produced a collected edition of EHY 's works, going back as far as Yonder. Miss Mole was reprinted by Virago Press in 1984 (edited by Sally Beauman), and read aloud...
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 Margiad Evans
After this ME worked on a never-completed novel called The Widower's Tale, set in a forest community on the English side of the Welsh border in the later nineteenth century. She received an advance...
Performance of text Michelene Wandor
Her radio play entitled The Courtier, the Prince and the Lady, drawing from Machiavelli and Castiglione with music from the Renaissance composer Josquin Desprez and his contemporaries, was produced by Piers Plowright for BBC Radio 3
Performance of text Winsome Pinnock
WP has worked on various television programmes: on South of the Border, shown from 1988 to 1990 on BBC One ; Chalkface, 1989, and Bitter Harvest (an episode of Screenplay, 1992), both...
Performance of text Michelene Wandor
Since the early 1990s, MW has turned her attention to music. Her libretti and radio plays include works based on poems by John Cornford , John Milton , and Ariosto : Spain, first performed...
Performance of text Mary Stewart
One of MS 's four radio plays written this year (or this and the previous year), Lift from a Stranger, was broadcast on BBC radio.
Friedman, Lenemaja. Mary Stewart. Twayne Publishers, 1990.
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“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Performance of text Zoë Fairbairns
ZF 's radio play The Belgian Nurse was broadcast on BBC Radio Four .
Fairbairns, Zoë. “Radio”. Zoë Fairbairns.
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, 1937 -, and Cheryl Bove. Iris Murdoch: A Descriptive Primary and Annotated Secondary Bibliography. Garland Publishing, 1994.
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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. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
4 November 2008
Performance of text Helen Dunmore
HD 's first radio play, The Mironov Legacy, a dramatisation of actual historical material, was broadcast as BBC Radio Four 's Afternoon Play.
Dunmore, Helen. Helen Dunmore. http://www.helendunmore.com/index.asp.
Performance of text Sarah Waters
She carried out as much research as available sources permitted into lesbian lives in England of the 1940s, and spent four years working on this novel (as compared with one year for her first). She...

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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