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SD considered she had never enjoyed anything so much as collaborative work on the BBC World Service radio soap Westway (in work broadcast in November 1997). This involved six writers driving the producers mad...

Diaz needed the author's permission for the performance, and on November 5th she put an advertisement in the New Statesman to find her. At this point, Rhys was living in obscurity in the country, and...

SD 's contributions to BBC radio include So Does the Nightingale (1980) and Don't Worry about Matilda (broadcast in 1983 and produced in 1987). Tell Me a Film, 2003, and Baloney Said Salome...

OM 's The Balkan Trilogy consists of three novels, The Great Fortune, The Spoilt City, and Friends and Heroes, published between 1960 and 1965. L. W. Bailey writes that OM 's husband

Dear Octopus was revived almost immediately at the Adelphi , in July and August of 1940, and it remains DS 's most frequently revived play. It was published by Heinemann in 1938. It...

The BBC published in 1997 Isabella. An Orphan Jilted, a spoof costume novel set in the eighteenth century by Mary Crewe, realized by Louise Page . This is a spin-off from LP 's...

BBC Radio 3 broadcast readings and discussion by KC and working-class poet Paul Farley of poems by Philip Larkin based on train travel around Larkinland and conversation with some of its denizens.

BB did an interview with Christopher Cook for the BBC World Service , which is available on the internet from their Audio Interviews series.

Rhys heard from a friend in October 1956 that the BBC were looking for her regarding a feature production of the novel. She wrote to them to encourage their plans, as it had been seven...

RM was a hard-working critic, reviewer, and journalist. From the 1920s into the second world war she wrote for Time and Tide, The Spectator, and the New Statesman among other publications.

She had already written a televised version of her own Pig-Heart Boy (shown by the BBC on 7 December 1999) and several episodes each for the tv series Byker Grove and Whizziwig (of which only...

Correspondences by AS was published both by Wesleyan University Press and Oxford University Press . She worked on it from 1970, researching (while her husband, Mark Elvin , held an appointment at Harvard between...

KJ has written scripts for radio programmes, like The Whale Road, about the arches made of whale bones which stand here and there in Britain (BBC Radio 3 , 2008), and Norn But...

DS found herself increasingly out of step with the new drama being produced in London since the advent of the Angry Young Men. She could tolerate John Osborne and even admired Shelagh Delaney ...

Absent from the volume is Miramar, a poem about her mother, and the difficult relationship they had while the poet was in her teens. This is available on the BBC World Service website.