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Textual Production Selima Hill
SH reviews books of poetry. She contributed the introduction to Helen Armstrong 's Sean's House: Poems by Writers from Selima Hill's Exeter Writing Groups, Exeter 1996. In 1990 she edited Jumping Over Trees: Poems...
Textual Production Sara Maitland
These stories (originally commissioned by the BBC for broadcast during the days of Holy Week, leading up to Good Friday) were not reprinted in Angel Maker: The Short Stories of Sara Maitland, which was...
Textual Production Naomi Alderman
She also wrote Borrowed Time, 2011, a novel which is a spin-off from the BBC 's Doctor Who series, which she regards as fan fiction.
Armitstead, Claire. “Naomi Alderman. A life in . . ”. theguardian.com, 28 Oct. 2016.
In it the doctor and his helpers go undercover...
Textual Production Wendy Cope
WC 's radio play Shall I Call Thee Bard? A Portrait of Jason Strugnell was broadcast by BBC Radio 3.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
The opening words of the title pun on a question addressed by Wordsworth to the...
Textual Production Winsome Pinnock
Later the same year she featured in Lenny Henry 's ten-part BBC documentary series Raising The Bar: 100 Years Of Black British Theatre And Screen (along with historical figures like Una Marson ). She also...
Textual Production Sarah Kane
Kane used this pseudonym to conceal her identity, first at a lunchtime reading and then at the Traverse Theatre, in an attempt to cast off her reputation for obscenity and violence. The programme included a...
Textual Production Nina Bawden
It was made into a film for BBC television.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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, 1985.
34: 261
She made her first radio broadcast on 18 April 1928, a...
Textual Production Margaret Laurence
This book began with a commission from the BBC to write four programmes about Nigerian literature. ML gave herself a crash course in the subject, about which she was very enthusiastic, and expanded her radio...
Textual Production Mary Wesley
It appeared exactly a year after she had finished the first draft (working title Period Piece) and put away the manuscript (written in ink on paper of A4 size, with lines but without margins)...
Textual Production Muriel Spark
An Author's Note says that both stories and plays were written on the same creative wavelength,
Spark, Muriel. Voices At Play. Penguin, 1966.
7
whether addressing the inner or outer ear. Rayner Heppenstall of the BBCThird Programme suggested that MS should...
Textual Production Anne Ridler
She was commissioned to write this play both by the vicar of St Mary's Church inOxford, and by the BBC Third Programme. It was performed at St Mary's (the UniversityChurch, and the actual scene...
Textual Production Susan Hill
SH had already broadcast ten plays by the time the BBC published The Cold Country, and Other Plays for Radio, a collection of five of these pieces.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1976
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Agatha Christie
The origin of the stage play was a radio play. Elizabeth Jenkins tells a story that this was based on the actual killing of a war evacuee by the farmer with whom he and his...
Textual Production Sara Maitland
A story by SM was read on the BBC 's Morning Story programme on 20 March 1989. Since then she has written a number of pieces specifically for radio or television. Finetake Productions made her...

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