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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...
Performance of text Sarah Daniels
A commission from Caroline Raphael , then head of Radio 5 , resulted in SD 's original radio play Purple Side Coasters, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 16 November 1995 and dealing with post-natal depression.
Aston, Elaine, and Geraldine Harris. Performance Practice and Process: Contemporary (Women) Practitioners. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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Bull, John, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 245. Gale Research, 2001.
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Performance of text Laura Riding
The BBC Third Programme broadcast, together with a reading of poems by LR , her statement about her loss of faith in poetry.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books, 2005.
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Performance of text Catherine Byron
Some of these poems had already appeared in journals such as Poetry Ireland Review and Lines Review. Some had already been aired on Poetry Now, a BBC radio programme.
Byron, Catherine. Settlements; &, Samhain. Loxwood Stoneleigh, 1993.
prelims
In 1994 CB
Performance of text Helen Dunmore
Throughout the 1980s HD gave many readings of her works: at literary festivals, and at schools, colleges, libraries, clubs, and prisons. Her poetry was also featured on BBC radio (several different programmes) and television. As...
Performance of text Germaine Greer
The BBC 's Broadcasting Support Services published a transcription of a discussion about education by a group of women journalists and writers moderated by GG : The Last Word (IV)
Dated from the Bodleian Library acquisitions stamp.
Greer, Germaine, editor. The Last Word. BBC Broadcasting Support Services, 1994.
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Performance of text Jean Rhys
Selma vas Diaz performed her dramatic monologue adapted from JR 's novelGood Morning, Midnight, with music by Roberto Gerhard , on the BBC 's Third Programme.
Mellown, Elgin W. Jean Rhys: A Descriptive and Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism. Garland, 1984.
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Performance of text Sylvia Plath
SP 's verse radio play Three Women: A Monologue for Three Voices was broadcast, posthumously, by the BBC .
Tabor, Stephen. Sylvia Plath: An Analytical Bibliography. Meckler, 1987.
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Performance of text Kathleen Jamie
A shorter version had been broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in 1985 under the title Rumours of Guns.
Jamie, Kathleen, and Lilias Fraser. Mr. and Mrs. Scotland are Dead. Bloodaxe Books, 2002.
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Performance of text Louise Page
This was also performed in July the same year at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and was adapted for broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 23 November 1978 (after some thought of...
Performance of text Charlotte Mew
The dramatic version cannot be dated, but was completed by 1913.
Warner, Val. “New Light on Charlotte Mew”. PN Review, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1997, pp. 43-7.
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It did not reach production in CM 's lifetime, but the BBC presented it in 1953 as a half-hour radio drama.
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983.
309
According...
Performance of text Naomi Royde-Smith
A debate between NRS and Compton Mackenzie was held under the auspices of the Drama League , and broadcast live on BBC radio. Royde-Smith maintained that The Broadcast Play is an unsatisfactory Form of Art...
Performance of text Dylan Thomas
It went out on the BBC Third Programme , with the Welsh actor Richard Burton taking Thomas's part as narrator, and with only three cosmetic cuts
Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas. A New Life. Overlook Press, 2003.
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out of the originally stipulated bowdlerization. The BBC
politics Cicely Hamilton
CH gave a BBC radio broadcast on the twenty-fifth anniversary (which fell this year) of women's attainment of the vote.
Whitelaw, Lis. The Life and Rebellious Times of Cicely Hamilton. Women’s Press, 1990.
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politics P. D. James
Guest-editing the BBC 's Today programme at almost ninety, PDJ openly accused the director-general of dumbing down.
Farndale, Nigel. “PD James interview: ’I have lived a very happy and fulfilled life’”. Daily Telegraph, 21 July 2010.

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