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BP 's Excellent Women was serialised for the BBC radio programme Woman's Hour; this boosted its sales considerably.

She was always feisty about the amount she was paid: for her first broadcast she queried the BBC 's provision of eight guineas since she had heard that the standard fee was ten. She was...

The initial version of Mary and the Monster was not well received. LL quotes the reviewer from the Birmingham Evening News as saying I'd rather be at the dentist—to which she adds, so would...

DDM made her first television appearance, in an interview on BBC 2 .

The major novels have been repeatedly dramatised and filmed; the BBC has had great success with videos and DVDs of all six. They and the unfinished novels have been almost equally material for sequels, prequels...

Mollie Hardwick in Books and Bookmen pronounced this to be a delicate water-colour of a novel, small and charming.PF 's winning of the coveted, ten-thousand-pound Booker Prize for it suggests that others saw more...

While Blackman's publisher was seeking a US contract for Noughts and Crosses, the terrorist attacks of 7 September made a fictional Liberation Militia into an untouchable idea. The book did not appear in the...

The novel was adapted for television in 1991 when the BBC filmed six episodes, which were then released together on video as Merlin of the Crystal Cave. The series was directed by Michael Darlow

It was well reviewed by another novelist, Lady Cynthia Asquith . In a BBC radio broadcast in 1978, Pym noted that this novel had caused someone to comment upon her dislike of men, to...

SW had not expected her book to travel beyond the lesbian community, but she was in for a surprise. The Independent on Sunday enthused: Could this be a new genre? The bawdy lesbian picaresque novel...

At another performance two weeks later (with the script this time complete), the cast took fourteen curtain calls before Thomas took the final one alone. Other American readings followed. DT delivered the typed, completed manuscript...

Tremendously popular with audiences, the play was performed in several cities in Britain and internationally, besides being adapted for BBC television. In Japan, audiences saw the play as a tragedy about a woman's inability...

Initially, this novel sold fewer copies than any of BP 's previous books. Even after an excerpt was broadcast on BBC 's Woman's Hour in 1965, sales continued to be low. Anne Wyatt-Brown thinks...

The name of the fictional town or village of Llareggub (bugger all spelled backwards) had been in his mind for more than twenty years. He had discussed the project of a history of this...

In 2005 MB received the Eleanor Farjeon Award from the British Children's Book Circle for her body of work (then extending over fifteen years). The same year she was awarded the OBE and in 2009...