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BBC television ran The House that Jack Built, a six-part series written by SD about the marriage of a couple the author describes as a cowboy and a madonna.

Marson initially approached T. S. Eliot to write the preface, but he refused, so she turned to L. A. G. Strong , a British writer and a colleague at the BBC . She dedicated the...

This novel was filmed for television by the BBC in 1988 as First Born.

The most common theme of FRH 's poetry and hymns is an unswerving devotion to God, whom she generally refers to as The King or The Master. Her most popular hymns include Take My...

She had finished it in January that year, and dedicated it to John Simopoulos , a Greek friend who was gay. It was adapted for television (BBC2 ) by Reg Gadney in 1982.

The Man Who Stole a Tiger strikes a different note. It begins in Jerusalem but ranges as far as the Congo. A scrawny, tubercular soldier with a criminal record, presented without sympathy or understanding...

This play effectively portrays the aftermath in Britain of the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean , who fled to the Soviet Union on 25 May 1951 after years of spying for Communist Russia...

The Rainy Summer exemplifies her lively descriptions of landscape; it ends, Bees, humming in the storm, carry their cold / Wild honey to cold cells.Philip Larkin chose this poem (his only selection from...

Correspondents represented in the volume include Freya Stark , as well as Bernard Shaw , Siegfried Sassoon , and Walter de la Mare . This volume was adapted for television by the BBC in 1988, without crediting VM .

About half of these nineteen very short stories (averaging less than ten pages apiece) are reprinted from magazines—Stand, the Irish Tatler, Writing Women, London Magazine—or anthologies. Short Days, Long Nights...

In the particularly teasingly titled Go Tell It to Mrs. Golightly, 1977, a blind girl staying with her grandfather discovers a kidnapping.Joe and the Gladiator was filmed for BBC television in 1971.

This collection keeps in mind the Scots element in the title as well as the birth element. It interprets the latter broadly to include various metaphorical kinds of birth and renewal. KJ writes here in...

Yet the casual virtuosity of this poem is a kind of consolation. WC 's assets include the power of compression and the power of brevity, sometimes Larkin esque (as in the conclusion of Bloody Men...

The title punctures its own potential pretentiousness with reference to The Archers, the much-loved BBC radio serial of country life. Cope's prose style, like her poetry, is dialogic and punchy. When she gave up...

For The Times in the 1930s her subjects included the gold rush at Kakamega in Kenya's only tropical rain forest, and New Deal farming in the American South. In March 1938 she embarked...