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Her radio broadcast for the BBC on 2 April 1943, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of women's suffrage, was another memorable speech.

MAH served as a Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation .

MAH presented for the BBC the first broadcast of A Week in Westminster, a radio programme designed by Hilda Matheson to educate the electorate (especially the newly-enfranchised female part of it) about politics.

The Times Literary Supplement judged the original to be a singularly interesting book—written by a German for Germans in the shadow of the First World War—and that Hamilton's translation was of exceptional excellence. She...

Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad,MAH gives a long, evocative first chapter to her parents and her childhood. She adds...

She was still working in the last year of her life, when she played another spiritualist medium role in Never Say Day, which was shown on BBC Channel Four.

These were IR's only books. She also wrote for radio and contributed the introduction to The Listening Corner Storybook, published for the BBC in 1985.

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...

SH ran adventure playgrounds, an Adult Education Centre creche, and a children's rights workshop. She worked for the National Childbirth Trust , and also spent some time working in bookshops. In 1991, she held a...

SH reviews books of poetry. She contributed the introduction to Helen Armstrong 's Sean's House: Poems by Writers from Selima Hill's Exeter Writing Groups, Exeter 1996. In 1990 she edited Jumping Over Trees: Poems...

SH had already broadcast ten plays by the time the BBC published The Cold Country, and Other Plays for Radio, a collection of five of these pieces.

SH 's volume of autobiographical sketches, The Magic Apple Tree: A Country Year, was published with engravings by John Lawrence . In May the BBC ran a 20-minute film about it on their Omnibus...

SH began reviewing books for Time and Tide as an undergraduate. After taking her degree she spent five years as book-review editor for the Coventry Evening Telegraph before returning to fiction. By the mid-1960s she...

It was adapted as a BBC radio play and re-titled as Miss Lavender is Dead, in 1970.

At the BBC and Open UniversityFH established herself as one of the most accomplished readers of contemporary poetry. As Frances Hooker , she read for the BBC's Third Programme (which, with a few shifts...