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This volume includes what its author calls the dreaded Sometimes, a poem which has proved so popular as to be almost an embarrassment. Discussed on a BBC Radio 4 programme, The Secret Life of...

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...

After Merivel was nominated for but did not win the Wellcome Trust book prize, RT contributed a brave, wry, self-mocking essay to The Guardian under the title The art of not winning. Over the...

In 2004 this book was broadcast serially on BBC Radio 4 .

The BBC published BB 's single children's book, Pussy Owl, with illustrations by Hilary Hayton . The stories which make up the book had been told on the BBC children's programme Jackanory.

The Royal Court acted speedily, getting the play on stage the month after it was written, at equal speed, in response to the simultaneous incursion of Israel into the Gaza Strip. Tickets were free, but...

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.

FW wrote her first television play while she was a housewife in Acton, about a prostitute living as a married woman in a suburb rather like Acton. The BBC turned it down...

As a child Penelope Knox, together with her brother produced a family magazine. In 1980 she observed: The stories I wrote at the age of eight and nine did not bring me the success I...

ST 's greatest success began in, but did not stay in, the theatre world. One Sunday (a total collapse; I was exhausted) her eldest son enquired in that adolescent, self-pitying voice why they...

CM 's early books almost all began as projects in journalism. She contributed reporting or reviews, in two languages, to Time and Tide, Horizon, Twentieth Century, Critique, L'Aube, and Le...

Just after war was declared in September 1939 RF wrote to The Times suggest that the BBC should broadcast the opinions of ordinary people in neutral countries. She quoted comments she had herself recently heard...

From 1948 she was making the amazing sum of three guineas for 1,000-word articles for a nature magazine. She once wrote a correspondence column: questions as well as answers. Someone suggested she should write for...

James said that in this novel she wanted to bring many conventions of the classical English mystery up to date, and to confront them with the courage, the dispassionate intelligence, and the cool common sense...

AQ published a handful of short stories and articles in various journals, including Nova, the London Magazine, transatlantic review, and Antigonish Review. In the mid-sixties she told her publisher,...