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Textual Features Kathleen Jamie
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...
Textual Features Wendy Cope
Yet the casual virtuosity of this poem is a kind of consolation. WC 's assets include the power of compression and the power of brevity, sometimes Larkin esque (as in the conclusion of Bloody Men...
Textual Features Elspeth Huxley
For The Times in the 1930s her subjects included the gold rush at Kakamega in Kenya's only tropical rain forest, and New Deal farming in the American South. In March 1938 she embarked...
Textual Features Wendy Cope
The title punctures its own potential pretentiousness with reference to The Archers, the much-loved BBC radio serial of country life. Cope's prose style, like her poetry, is dialogic and punchy. When she gave up...
Textual Features Anne Ridler
The third play, The Mask was inferior as a stage play, in AR 's later judgement, to its radio version (in which she collaborated with her cousin Robin Milford , who wrote the music, and...
Textual Production Evelyn Glover
Between 1927 and 1934, EG had several short pieces broadcast over BBC radio.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
under Evelyn Glover
Textual Production Marghanita Laski
With Claud Cockburn , Cyril Connolly , Kenneth Tynan , Peter Forster , Wynford Vaughan Thomas , and Steven Watson , ML co-wrote the script for the BBC television comedy series Dig This Rhubarb.
Lewisohn, Mark. “Dig This Rhubarb”. The bbc.co.uk Guide to Comedy.
Textual Production Stevie Smith
SS was interviewed by Derek Hart for the BBC Home Service; the interview is now available over the internet.
“BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4.
Textual Production Fay Weldon
It began as an idea floated to the BBC in 1985, before such formalities as a synopsis were required. Its author had suppposed it of rather local interest (for recipients of housing benefit in the...
Textual Production Maureen Duffy
Her life with Behn had begun in 1973 or early 1974, she wrote later, after she had taken an honours degree in English without ever hearing Behn's existence hinted at.
Duffy, Maureen. “My Life with Aphra Behn”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 2.
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She was stunned by...
Textual Production Caryl Churchill
Churchill thought of The Ants as a television play when she wrote it, but her agent sensibly sent it to radio.
Churchill, Caryl. Plays: One. Methuen.
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Between 1962 and 1973 CC wrote a number of short radio plays that...
Textual Production Naomi Jacob
A few months after her death, NJ 's Me—Thinking Things Over appeared in print, collecting her talks broadcast on the BBC 's Woman's Hour.
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin).
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Textual Production Anne Ridler
She was commissioned to write this play both by the vicar of St Mary's Church inOxford, and by the BBC Third Programme. It was performed at St Mary's (the UniversityChurch, and the actual scene...
Textual Production E. Nesbit
H. R. Millar did another set of illustrations for the book, somewhat derivative of those of Pryse.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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Because sales were disappointing, EN decided to advertise the book through what would now be called an...
Textual Production Shelagh Delaney
BBC Radio 4 broadcast SD 's play Whoopi Goldberg's Country Life, which has nothing to do with US writer Whoopi Goldberg , but is a sequel to Delaney's Country Life, 2004.
“Afternoon Play. Whoopi Goldberg’s Country Life”. BBC Radio 4.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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