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The Man Who Stole a Tiger strikes a different note. It begins in Jerusalem but ranges as far as the Congo. A scrawny, tubercular soldier with a criminal record, presented without sympathy or understanding...

This collection keeps in mind the Scots element in the title as well as the birth element. It interprets the latter broadly to include various metaphorical kinds of birth and renewal. KJ writes here in...

The Rainy Summer exemplifies her lively descriptions of landscape; it ends, Bees, humming in the storm, carry their cold / Wild honey to cold cells.Philip Larkin chose this poem (his only selection from...

This play effectively portrays the aftermath in Britain of the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean , who fled to the Soviet Union on 25 May 1951 after years of spying for Communist Russia...

Correspondents represented in the volume include Freya Stark , as well as Bernard Shaw , Siegfried Sassoon , and Walter de la Mare . This volume was adapted for television by the BBC in 1988, without crediting VM .

SD considered she had never enjoyed anything so much as collaborative work on the BBC World Service radio soap Westway (in work broadcast in November 1997). This involved six writers driving the producers mad...

EJ wrote a play as a vehicle for her friend Baliol Holloway , in which he collaborated with her, supplying the theatrical expertise and especially his sense of stage timing. He played Charles II in...

SD 's contributions to BBC radio include So Does the Nightingale (1980) and Don't Worry about Matilda (broadcast in 1983 and produced in 1987). Tell Me a Film, 2003, and Baloney Said Salome...

It was televised by the BBC during winter 2000-1.

Dear Octopus was revived almost immediately at the Adelphi , in July and August of 1940, and it remains DS 's most frequently revived play. It was published by Heinemann in 1938. It...

MR judged, and commented on, this magazine's competition for new short stories in summer 2016. She contributes regularly to the BBC 's Woman's Hour and to its arts-and-ideas programme Night Waves. She has written...

MAH presented for the BBC the first broadcast of A Week in Westminster, a radio programme designed by Hilda Matheson to educate the electorate (especially the newly-enfranchised female part of it) about politics.

BBC Radio 3 broadcast readings and discussion by KC and working-class poet Paul Farley of poems by Philip Larkin based on train travel around Larkinland and conversation with some of its denizens.

DL has also written dramatic adaptations for BBC radio of others' work: of Chance Acquaintances by Colette , of Unless by Carol Shields , and of Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca , the last...

BB did an interview with Christopher Cook for the BBC World Service , which is available on the internet from their Audio Interviews series.