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Textual Production Margery Allingham
While she was working on Dance of the Years, in March 1942, MA spoke on the BBC Overseas Service about the changes wartime was making in traditional village life. (She had been named as...
Textual Production Jeni Couzyn
The acknowledgements reveal the author's involvement with a rich mix of cultural activities. The opening poem, This is my house (two stanzas of seven short lines), was commissioned for a documentary film of the same...
Textual Production Rose Tremain
About the time of publication this book was read on BBC radio as A Book at Bedtime.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Textual Production Olivia Manning
After her return to England she sometimes wrote for the BBC (with which her husband was now a producer), providing scripts for the long-running serial Mrs. Dale's Diary, one number in the series A...
Textual Production E. M. Delafield
The play (a dramatised version of The Way Things Are) ran for almost six months in London and was also produced in New York.
Delafield, E. M., and Nicola Beauman. The Diary of a Provincial Lady. Rpt. ed., Virago, 1984.
prelims
McCullen, Maurice. E. M. Delafield. Twayne, 1985.
119
BBC radio aired a version in September 1931.
Powell, Violet. The Life of a Provincial Lady. Heinemann, 1988.
151
Textual Production Una Marson
Marson initially approached T. S. Eliot to write the preface, but he refused, so she turned to L. A. G. Strong , a British writer and a colleague at the BBC . She dedicated the...
Textual Production Maureen Duffy
One Goodnight, the first of MD 's two radio plays about the Irish writers Edith Somerville and Martin Ross , aired on the BBC .
“The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association.
Textual Production Timberlake Wertenbaker
Writing for these genres as well as for the stage, TW often revisits and reshapes the work of earlier writers. She wrote the screenplay for The Children, a Film Four International production (1990) adapted...
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...
Textual Production Iris Murdoch
She had finished it in January that year, and dedicated it to John Simopoulos , a Greek friend who was gay. It was adapted for television (BBC2 ) by Reg Gadney in 1982.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
418, 421, 471
Textual Production Buchi Emecheta
The work was published in adapted form as a novel in 1986 in Macmillan 's Pacesetters Series. BE has written other plays produced on television, including Tanya, a Black Woman, for the BBC
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
Gardens of Eden, MW 's radio play based on her own poems, was aired in 1987 on BBC Radio 4 with music by Michael Nyman .
Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
Textual Production Susan Hill
SH began reviewing books for Time and Tide as an undergraduate. After taking her degree she spent five years as book-review editor for the Coventry Evening Telegraph before returning to fiction. By the mid-1960s she...
Textual Production Elizabeth von Arnim
A month-long holiday that EA took near Rapallo with her friends Maud Ritchie and Mary Mallet provided the inspiration for this book. It has seen many theatrical and movie versions. Campbell Kane rewrote it as...
Textual Production Sybille Bedford
Into this work, SB wrote later, she threw herself with a compound of conviction and self-doubt.
Bedford, Sybille. Jigsaw. Penguin, 1999.
ix
Its sources were, besides the different narrating talents of her parents, the indiscretions of tutors and servants, the...

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