Mason, Edward J., and Tony Shryane. “My Word! (1956-1990)”. Radio Days: Whirligig: 1950’s British Radio Nostalgia.
BBC
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Other Life Event | E. Arnot Robertson | |
Textual Production | E. Arnot Robertson | |
Textual Production | E. Arnot Robertson | EAR
made her first BBC
broadcast, Travel and Yachting on English Rivers, and was also heard in unrehearsed debate on issues of gender with Rose Macaulay
. Devlin, Polly, and E. Arnot Robertson. “Introduction”. Four Frightened People, Virago, p. vii - xix. xvi |
Reception | E. Arnot Robertson | |
Reception | Mary Robinson | A conference at the University of Warwick
commemorated the two hundredth anniversary of MR
's death; Stuart Curran
gave a plenary address and Jacqueline M. Labbe
spoke about Robinson on the BBC
's Woman's Hour. Curran, Stuart. Email about Mary Robinson to Isobel Grundy. Labbe, Jacqueline M. “Mary Robinson’s Bicentennial”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 9 , No. 1, pp. 3-8. 3 |
Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | A BBC
broadcast about Victorian women hymn-writers in 2003 offered the unequivocal opinion that the question opening the poem's ultimate stanza—What shall I bring him, poor as I am?—is not simply an expression... |
Family and Intimate relationships | J. K. Rowling | JFK investigated her mother's French roots and made a television programme for BBC One
about the results in April 2012. Her great-grandfather, Louis Volant, was born illegitimate in Paris, had a successful career in London... |
Performance of text | Naomi Royde-Smith | A debate between NRS
and Compton Mackenzie
was held under the auspices of the Drama League
, and broadcast live on BBC
radio. Royde-Smith maintained that The Broadcast Play is an unsatisfactory Form of Art... |
Employer | Berta Ruck | |
Occupation | Berta Ruck | Television was proposed to her doubtfully as a medium so new to me, Ruck, Berta. An Asset to Wales. Hutchinson. 184 |
Textual Production | Berta Ruck | Shortly after this BR
was invited to give a broadcast talk on Heroines in Fiction, and incurred serious displeasure by wishing goodnight to her mother on air at the end of the programme (while... |
Employer | Vita Sackville-West | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
's next lovers were women working professionally in the media: first was Hilda Matheson
, Director of Talks for the BBC
. They presumably met in connection with VSW
's first broadcast, on 18... |
Textual Production | Vita Sackville-West | Her written journalism was complemented by public speaking and broadcasting on the BBC
: on women's rights, literature, travel, and English society. Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research. 34: 261 |
Performance of text | Dorothy L. Sayers |
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