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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...

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...

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...

Some of these nine stories had recently appeared in anthologies; two were commissioned by BBC Radio 4 , and read on air in 1991 and 1992. In one of these, A Mine of Serpents...

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...

The Literary Review printed MG 's radio play Over and Out, which was performed by the BBC during the same year.

The BBC filmed five Wimsey novels (set in the 1920s) with Ian Carmichael playing the sleuth, then added the three Harriet Vane mysteries, set in the 1930s.

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...

EF 's collaboration with her youngest brother, Herbert , began before the first world war in amateur entertainments, with spoof patriotic ballads like The Coastguard, whose bluff speaker prefers to let his little son...

Extraordinarily prolific, MW has contributed innumerable articles and reviews to periodicals, including the Independent, the London Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, the Sunday Times, the Times Literary...

SH 's volume of autobiographical sketches, The Magic Apple Tree: A Country Year, was published with engravings by John Lawrence . In May the BBC ran a 20-minute film about it on their Omnibus...

There followed in this series How Little Grey Rabbit Got Back Her Tail, 1930, The Great Adventure of Hare, 1931 (originally entitled Hare Goes a-Journeying), and The Story of Fuzzypeg the Hedgehog...

Pritchett wrote, I cannot think of any Irish writer who has gone so profoundly without fear into the Irish heart.Two of these stories, Cuckoo Spit and My Vocation, both previously published in...

By 1967 MF had worked as a journalist for the BBC , had covered religious affairs for the Guardian and the Spectator, and was writing a regular column for the Daily Mail.