British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
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Performance of text | Timberlake Wertenbaker | |
Performance of text | E. J. Scovell | This volume, titled from the space that gives depth to a landscape, Scovell, E. J. The Space Between. Secker and Warburg, 1982. 70 |
Performance of text | Samuel Beckett | |
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 | E. H. Young | The actress Gladys Young
read aloud on a BBC
radio programme an unascribed story about a haunted country house which was apparently by her sister EHY
. Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol. 27 , No. 3, Sept. 2001, pp. 303-31. 312 |
Performance of text | Lilian Bowes Lyon | |
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 | Caryl Churchill | |
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 | Richmal Crompton | The BBC
filmed a play entitled Just William for television. The play was based on RC
's William books, and was then playing at the Granville Theatre
in Fulham. “William; Just William”. BBC: Guide to Comedy. |
Performance of text | E. H. Young | Later stories, like The Grey Mare (17 February 1948) and Cow's Tail (20 September 1950) were also read on the BBC
. Briganti, Chiara, and Kathy Mezei. Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E. H. Young. Ashgate, 2006. 46 |
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. |
Performance of text | Margiad Evans |
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