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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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Absent from the volume is Miramar, a poem about her mother, and the difficult relationship they had while the poet was in her teens. This is available on the BBC World Service website.

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

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...