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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.
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Performance of text Margiad Evans
ME 's talk on epilepsy was broadcast in the Silver Lining series on the BBC Light Programme.
Dearnley, Moira. Margiad Evans. University of Wales Press, 1982.
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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 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 Ruth Padel
RP has broadcast programmes of her own on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4 about the work of composers, scientists, and writers. She chose the title Close Encounters for a series of interval talks about...
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 Harold Pinter
This play reached print the same year. Its origins lay in the story of a Jewish friend of Pinter's from Hackney who married a gentile, emigrated, and kept his marriage secret from his family. Hall
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 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 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 Zoë Fairbairns
ZF 's radio play The Belgian Nurse was broadcast on BBC Radio Four .
Fairbairns, Zoë. “Radio”. Zoë Fairbairns.
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 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 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.

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