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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

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...

The Times Literary Supplement judged the original to be a singularly interesting book—written by a German for Germans in the shadow of the First World War—and that Hamilton's translation was of exceptional excellence. She...

UAF 's poetry was broadcast on the BBC 's Woman's Hour and selected for Poems on the Underground. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1987, a CBE in...

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...

MGM wrote to the BBC to complain of the review that EAR had broadcast of the film The Green Years.

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...

PDJ held many influential positions in the arts community. She was a Governor of the BBC (1988-93), a Member of the BBC General Advisory Council (1987-8), Chairman of the Literature Advisory Council at the Arts Council of Great Britain

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...

Derek McCulloch of the BBC , producer and presenter of Children's Hour, sent an internal memo to Lionel Gamlin reiterating that no material by EB was ever to be used.

Before she had published a collected volume of her verse, LL won a BBC Radio Scotland poetry prize for Revelation and Poem for Other Poor Fools.

Subsequently, Warner has been a Visiting Fellow at the British Film Institute (1992), Trinity College, Cambridge (1998), the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University (1999), Stanford University (2000), and All Souls College , Oxford (2001). She...