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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.
politics Fay Weldon
Weldon wrote a fighting speech for the awards ceremony, protesting .about publishers' treatment of authors. She claimed later to have shown it ahead of time to the organisers, but I suppose they hadn't bothered to...
politics Una Marson
UM began a series of radio broadcasts from BBCLondon intended to boost the morale of West Indian troops.
Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998.
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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 Doreen Wallace
The tithe campaign, which ran down with the onset of the Second World War, was recalled in a BBC programme in the series Yesterday's Witness in May 1972, written by Janet Hitchman , in which...
politics E. M. Forster
After 1924, EMF turned from writing novels to social and political causes, in particular the issue of freedom of expression. In 1928 he campaigned against the suppression of Radclyffe Hall 's The Well of Loneliness...
politics Olivia Manning
As to gender politics, though she admired the suffragists and felt strongly about women's rights, she thought of herself not as a woman writer but as a writer who happened to be a woman, and...
Author summary Daphne Du Maurier
DDM , who published throughout the middle years of the twentieth century, was primarily a novelist, though she wrote non-fiction—biography, plays, and screenplays—as well. Her work was adapted into film and television by such esteemed...
Author summary Evelyn Glover
EG began her writing career by contributing several comic, polemical sketches to the suffrage cause. These one-act plays seek to demonstrate the relevance of the suffrage movement to working-class women. During the First World War...
Author summary Catherine Byron
A poet whose career began in the later twentieth century, CB has published six volumes of poetry, one semi-autobiograpical prose narrative, two autobiographical essays, poetry reviews, and a series of online collaborations combining poetry and...
Author summary Rose Macaulay
RM was highly prolific, publishing during the earlier half of the twentieth century twenty-three novels and two volumes of poetry, as well as three books of short stories, several historical and travel narratives, and works...
Publishing Agatha Christie
Another interview, given on 25 November 1962, concerned the tenth anniversary of The Mousetrap on stage. She said she was amazed and delighted by the success of her play. The BBC has preserved these two...
Publishing Michelene Wandor
BBC Radio rejected the play when MW submitted it to them in 1977, but decided to broadcast it in 1981 after a producer saw the stage production. The National Theatre likewise initially rejected it, but...
Publishing Constance Garnett
She translated The Cherry Orchard in 1906 (two years after its first appearance in Russian) and submitted the result to Incorporated Stage Society . For a long time she received no response, but on 28...
Publishing Harold Pinter
It was rejected that August as a possible television play for the BBC . A successful revival took place in spring 2007 at Trafalgar Studios , London.
Billington, Michael. Harold Pinter. Faber and Faber, 2007.
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“The Dumb Waiter”. thisistheatre.com, 1 Nov. 2011.

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