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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.

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...