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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Diaz needed the author's permission for the performance, and on November 5th she put an advertisement in the New Statesman to find her. At this point, Rhys was living in obscurity in the country, and...

OM 's The Balkan Trilogy consists of three novels, The Great Fortune, The Spoilt City, and Friends and Heroes, published between 1960 and 1965. L. W. Bailey writes that OM 's husband

In 1997 the BBC and the Arts Council commissioned CB to produce Writing on Skins, in which she explores writing on vellum, in collaboration with artist Denis Brown , for the Write Out Loud...

She dedicated this volume to her husband , daughter, mother , and father .Many of its contents had appeared in journals or anthologies, or had been broadcast on the BBC . Two had featured, as...

The BBC published in 1997 Isabella. An Orphan Jilted, a spoof costume novel set in the eighteenth century by Mary Crewe, realized by Louise Page . This is a spin-off from LP 's...

As the title indicates, JA recast this in book from pieces given on the popular BBC children's television programme Jackanory. The book was the first of a successful series.

One spur to this late work was Farjeon's indignation at a BBC radio programme in 1953 about Thomas, which was repeated despite her protest after the first broadcast. The programme maintained that she had been...

Gordon Daviot (also known as JT ) published a volume of eight one-act plays (of which all but one had been broadcast on BBC Radio during the Second World War), Leith Sands, and Other Short Plays.

Rhys heard from a friend in October 1956 that the BBC were looking for her regarding a feature production of the novel. She wrote to them to encourage their plans, as it had been seven...

RM was a hard-working critic, reviewer, and journalist. From the 1920s into the second world war she wrote for Time and Tide, The Spectator, and the New Statesman among other publications.