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Alan Pryce-Jones , editor of the Times Literary Supplement, commissioned MS for a middle page on Mary Shelley before her book appeared. Spark also gave a talk on Shelley for the BBC Third Programme...

The BBC approached Bottome to write propaganda to help entice America into war because of the popularity of her novels in the United States. Her script uses Disney cartoon characters to depict the two...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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,...

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

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...

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.