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Performance of text Philip Larkin
Still struggling, PL published in 1954 an untitled leaflet of poems with the Fantasy Press of Eynsham in Oxfordshire (number 21 of their Fantasy Poets). His poems were also by this time being read...
Performance of text Eleanor Farjeon
Her introduction confides that her writing of children's poetry originated in the death of her dream of being a real poet.
Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae, 1986.
61-2
One of these poems, Mrs. Malone, was read on BBC Radio Four's...
Performance of text Shena Mackay
Three of these stories had been read on BBC Radio 3 in 1982.
Mackay, Shena. Collected Short Stories. Penguin, 1994.
vii, viii
The volume appeared in paperback from Abacus in 1984.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Performance of text Harold Pinter
A recording of this sketch was broadcast by BBC Radio 3 the following day. It appeared in print in Harold Pinter Plays 4, 2012.
“Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)”. doollee.com: Playwrights.
Performance of text Elizabeth Jennings
The Leamington Poetry Society published a 4-page leaflet (plus cover) of EJ 's poems, titled with her name, in March 1987.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Twelve years later the British Council published an audiocassette of poetry which features her...
Performance of text Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS 's retelling of the Nativity, He That Should Come, was broadcast on the BBC 's Children's Hour.
Brabazon, James. Dorothy L. Sayers. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1981.
171, 191
Gilbert, Colleen B. A Bibliography of the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers. Macmillan, 1978.
96-7
Performance of text Michelene Wandor
MW 's first radio play, Correspondence, about a divorcee who becomes a student, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 .
Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
Performance of text Elaine Feinstein
The BBC broadcast EF 's television play Breath, first of a good deal of mostly unpublished drama she has written for TV and radio.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Performance of text Elaine Feinstein
Two of these poems, Getting Older and Urban Lyric were read on BBC Radio Four 's Woman's Hour programme, and appear in the Woman's Hour 50th Anniversary Poetry Collection, 1996.
McLoughlin, Pat, editor. Woman’s Hour: 50th Anniversary Poetry Collection. Penguin, 1996.
150, 162
Performance of text Teresa Deevy
Its rejection was a heavy blow, since it signalled a change of attitude towards Deevy's work which had been brewing for several years.
The Teresa Deevy Archive. 2014, http://deevy.nuim.ie/.
Introduction
Wife to James Whelan was heard on BBC radio in Northern...
Performance of text Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS 's cycle of plays on the life of Christ, The Man Born to be King, was broadcast on the BBC .
Gilbert, Colleen B. A Bibliography of the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers. Macmillan, 1978.
102
Performance of text Agatha Christie
AC had written two plays, Black Coffee (1930) and Akhnaton (written in 1937 but not published until 1973), before adapting her novel Ten Little Niggers for the stage. This opened at St James's Theatre ,...
Performance of text Michelene Wandor
MW 's early radio play on the life and work of Antonia White , Dust in the Sugar House, was broadcast on the BBC .
Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
politics Marghanita Laski
The committee had been convened by the Labour government after a long gestation. Its various recommendations included continuing the BBC licence fee, setting up a fourth television channel, and keeping strict curbs on commercial television...
politics Violet Trefusis
VT broadcast on literary topics for La France libre via the BBC . This work earned her the Légion d'Honneur , awarded in 1950.
Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997.
277
Trefusis, Violet, and Philippe Jullian. Don’t Look Round. Hutchinson, 1953.
187

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