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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.

Following a silent film of 1928 entitled The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (from the novel of the same title, 1922), Orczy and Julia Neilson gave permission for the filming of the work by London Film Productions

She also wrote Borrowed Time, 2011, a novel which is a spin-off from the BBC 's Doctor Who series, which she regards as fan fiction. In it the doctor and his helpers go undercover...

WC 's radio play Shall I Call Thee Bard? A Portrait of Jason Strugnell was broadcast by BBC Radio 3. The opening words of the title pun on a question addressed by Wordsworth to the...

It appeared exactly a year after she had finished the first draft (working title Period Piece) and put away the manuscript (written in ink on paper of A4 size, with lines but without margins)...

It was made into a film for BBC television.

Within not much more than a year of publication this novel had sold more than 65,000 copies, overturning its author's feeling of having always been a very modest seller.Of a proposed BBC adaptation...

Ephemeral writings by CG have not been collected. A letter she wrote to Leonard Woolf at the New Statesman and Nation in 1933, setting out her considered judgement on Soviet Communism, was apparently designed for...

The origin of the stage play was a radio play. Elizabeth Jenkins tells a story that this was based on the actual killing of a war evacuee by the farmer with whom he and his...

This publication was one of a group of four: the others are by Zoë Fairbairns , Valerie Miner , and Victoria Nelson . Three of Wandor's stories are revised from versions which appeared in Guests...

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.

Another generically unusual work by NA is the script for a mini-drama filmed in Italy for the BBC , La Mappa Misteriosa, which is designed for anglophone listeners seeking to learn Italian. The players...

Pinter began this work as a radio play. The BBC archives hold a scene-by-scene plan he made for it, plus statements about overall themes and purpose. This plan was rejected in November 1958, but later...

An Author's Note says that both stories and plays were written on the same creative wavelength, whether addressing the inner or outer ear. Rayner Heppenstall of the BBCThird Programme suggested that MS should...

KJ has written scripts for radio programmes, like The Whale Road, about the arches made of whale bones which stand here and there in Britain (BBC Radio 3 , 2008), and Norn But...