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Textual Production Brigid Brophy
After John Profumo resigned from the Cabinet on 4 June 1963 following his detection in a lie to the House of Commons about his relationship with a prostitute, the BBC commissioned BB for a talk...
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 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 Katherine Mansfield
Scholar Claire Tomalin suspects that this refusal had to do with KM's unacknowledged debt to Chekhov in The Child-Who-Was-Tired.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Mansfield was, however, feeling discouraged about all her work. In February, with The Garden...
Textual Production Bernardine Evaristo
BE adapted the novella as a radio play for the BBC in 2012.
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
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...
Textual Production Susan Miles
It was originally written as a radio play for the BBC, but was never aired.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
With action set in the First World War and the 1920s, it may have been written then or at...
Textual Production Diana Athill
DA's contributions to various periodicals sometimes enlarge on Stet in describing famous writers and her publishing relationships with them. In 2000 she wrote for the TLS on Jean Rhys and for Granta on V. S. Naipaul
Textual Production Sarah Daniels
Over the course of her career SD has become much involved in radio drama. From once believing that only sad bastards listen to BBC Radio 4, she has progressed to becoming a regular contributor...
Textual Production Andrea Levy
AL has had her short fiction read on BBC Radio 4.
Hickman, Christie. “Andrea Levy: Under the skin of history”. The Independent, 6 Feb. 2004.
Her story Deborah appeared in volume 7 of the British Council 's New Writing, 1998, alongside far more established names. Loose Change...
Textual Production Julia O'Faolain
While working as a translator for the Council of Europe, JOF also set out, at her father's urging, to write professionally. Later, however, she felt she had made a false start as a writer...
Textual Production Malorie Blackman
Hacker was dramatized for BBC radio.
qtd. in
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Shelagh Delaney
SD wrote several television scripts in the 1970s and early 1980s. The first was Did Your Nanny Come from Bergen? for the BBC in 1970.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Virginia Woolf
VW broadcast in a BBC series called Words Fail Me a talk with the title Craftsmanship; however, she used her talk to attack the title as wholly inappropriate to the use of words.
Woolf, Virginia. The Death of the Moth. Hogarth Press, 1942.
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Textual Production Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda
She included essays previously published in Time and Tide about her travels to far-off places such as Gibraltar, Morocco, Greece, Egypt, and the holy places of the earth:
Rhondda, Margaret Haig, Viscountess. Notes on the Way. Books for Libraries Press, 1968.
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