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In her autobiography Jameson also briefly mentions compiling a report on women in munitions factories for the Ministry of Supply at this time. She spoke on the BBC at least once, in a radio address...

Virginia and Leonard Woolf gave their first broadcast for the BBC —a talk entitled Are Too Many Books Written and Published?

Television was proposed to her doubtfully as a medium so new to me, at a date after the publication of her memoir A Smile for the Past in 1959. She was ready to try...

MAH served as a Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation .

VW broadcast again, on her own, in 1937. Part of her broadcast (a reading of her essay Craftsmanship) is in the National Sound Archive of the British Library (M7060). The only extant recording of...

This work had an impact on her own writing, which continued to be her primary focus. Hazel Holt observes that she was a capable and conscientious editor but had no real interest in Africa as...

She was still working in the last year of her life, when she played another spiritualist medium role in Never Say Day, which was shown on BBC Channel Four.

VM was invited to host a series of BBC radio broadcasts on literary figures.

MK helped to initiate the Royal African Society , which was founded in her name in 1901 just after her death. Today the Society's website offers a biography and some striking pictures of MK ...

She also participated in debates in the 1950s and 1960s on homosexual law reform in Britain. At the time when the 1967 Sexual Offences Act became law, she discussed the BBC 2 television documentary...

While CC was attending Oxford University, a student production of one of her plays brought her into contact with an agent, Margaret Ramsay , who encouraged her to write for radio. From 1962 to the...

After appearing on the BBC programme New Voices in 1988, Breeze became involved with the British film, television, and theatre industries. In the 1990s alone, she contributed to television programmes, wrote two plays, and wrote...

SH ran adventure playgrounds, an Adult Education Centre creche, and a children's rights workshop. She worked for the National Childbirth Trust , and also spent some time working in bookshops. In 1991, she held a...

During the Second World War, EAR worked as a government adviser on films. After the war she returned to reviewing films on radio. She was a broadcaster of note, particularly as a panellist on The...

Meanwhile she prepared to receive evacuees from London, and volunteered for first aid work, nursing, and night shifts with the ARP (Air Raid Precaution) . After the war she became a member both of...