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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 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 Viola Meynell
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.
MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen, 2002.
349
Textual Features Lesley Storm
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...
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 Production Shelagh Delaney
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...
Textual Production Shena Mackay
This brings together the contents of her three previous volumes of stories (putting those from the latest volume first), and adds two uncollected stories (one of them commissioned for BBC Radio 4, 1993).
Mackay, Shena. Collected Short Stories. Penguin, 1994.
ii
Textual Production Dodie Smith
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.
Gale, Maggie B. West End Women: Women and the London Stage, 1918-1962. Routledge, 1996.
226
Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
107
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
It...
Textual Production Kate Clanchy
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.
“Children of the Whitsun Weddings”. BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature, 22 July 2010.
Textual Production Sarah Daniels
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).
Bull, John, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 245. Gale Research, 2001.
114-15
This involved six writers driving the producers mad...
Textual Production Irene Handl
These were IR's only books. She also wrote for radio and contributed the introduction to The Listening Corner Storybook, published for the BBC in 1985.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Malorie Blackman
She had already written a televised version of her own Pig-Heart Boy (shown by the BBC on 7 December 1999) and several episodes each for the tv series Byker Grove and Whizziwig (of which only...
Textual Production Anne Stevenson
Correspondences by AS was published both by Wesleyan University Press and Oxford University Press.
Stevenson, Anne. Selected Poems, 1956-1986. Oxford University Press, 1987.
149
She worked on it from 1970, researching (while her husband, Mark Elvin, held an appointment at Harvard between...
Textual Production Dodie Smith
DS found herself increasingly out of step with the new drama being produced in London since the advent of the Angry Young Men. She could tolerate John Osborne and even admired Shelagh Delaney...
Textual Production Fleur Adcock
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.

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