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Textual Production Constance Garnett
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...
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
Novels adapted by MW are not restricted to those by women. Works by male writers she has revised for broadcasting include Kipps by H. G. Wells , aired on Radio 4 in 1984 and runner-up...
Textual Production Deborah Moggach
DM published her twelfth novel, Close Relations, for which she also wrote the screenplay when it became a highly successful and slightly scandalous BBC television serial.
The title Close Relations has been used by...
Textual Production Penelope Lively
PL has been highly productive as a writer for children, in books and stories which tackle themes similar to those of her adult novels. She has acted as presenter on a BBC Radio 4 programme...
Textual Production Shelagh Delaney
BBC television ran The House that Jack Built, a six-part series written by SD about the marriage of a couple the author describes as a cowboy and a madonna.
Cunningham, John, fl. 1976. “The Salford Madonna”. The Guardian, 4 Aug. 1976.
Textual Production Elizabeth Gaskell
There were nine editions of Cranford during EG 's lifetime, but another 160 appeared between her death and 1947 (almost as many in the USA as in Britain), and it appeared twice in German translations...
Textual Production Noel Streatfeild
She used her own theatre experience, and the ballet experience of a sister. The book (whose full title was Ballet Shoes, A story of three children on the stage) was illustrated by the author's...
Textual Production Elspeth Huxley
In later years EH was a frequent member, in sessions of six weeks at a time, of the panel on the BBC 's The Critics, for which on 20 August 1954 she reviewed Eudora Welty
Textual Production Maureen Duffy
This novel was filmed for television by the BBC in 1988 as First Born.
Duffy, Maureen. The Microcosm. Virago, 1989.
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Textual Production Dorothy Wellesley
The selection was made in conjunction with BBC staff for a series of readings that autumn; it consisted of the work of poets born (so far as could be ascertained) since 1880, and therefore under...
Textual Production Harold Pinter
Writing for radio (the 6 Third Programme , precursor of Radio Three ), television, and West End revues (put on by Michael Codron ) turned out to be a lifeline for Pinter after the failure...
Textual Production F. Tennyson Jesse
In 1948 FTJ and her husband adapted the novel as a play, which opened in London at the New Boltons Theatre Club in May 1951. The novel was produced as a talking book in 1953...
Textual Production Caryl Churchill
Churchill thought of The Ants as a television play when she wrote it, but her agent sensibly sent it to radio.
Churchill, Caryl. Plays: One. Methuen, 1985.
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Between 1962 and 1973 CC wrote a number of short radio plays that...
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 Shelagh Delaney
BBC Radio 4 broadcast SD 's play Whoopi Goldberg's Country Life, which has nothing to do with US writer Whoopi Goldberg , but is a sequel to Delaney's Country Life, 2004.
“Afternoon Play. Whoopi Goldberg’s Country Life”. BBC Radio 4, 18 June 2010.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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