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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 Cicely Hamilton
Her radio broadcast for the BBC on 2 April 1943, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of women's suffrage, was another memorable speech.
Textual Production Andrea Levy
Levy says she began work on this novel after, as an adult, she at last got her mother talking about the earlier, Jamaican part of her life. At first she was very nervous writing a...
Textual Production Ann Oakley
It was televised by the BBC amid much media hyperbole.
Oakley, Ann. Taking It like a Woman. Flamingo, 1992.
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A paperback appeared in 1989, and another ten years later.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Cochrane, Kira. “Ann Oakley: ’Barbara Wootton was too visionary’”. theguardian.com, 7 July 2011.
Textual Production Nina Bawden
It was made into a film for BBC television.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Jean Rhys
The production was commissioned by the BBC , and took place at the Royal Festival Hall in London. It was conducted by Colin Davis , with Meriel Dickinson as soloist. The work was later...
Textual Production Katherine Mansfield
Scholar Claire Tomalin suspects that this refusal had to do with KM 's unacknowledged debt to Chekhov in The Child-Who-Was-Tired.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Mansfield was, however, feeling discouraged about all her work. In February, with The Garden...
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 Susan Miles
It was originally written as a radio play for the BBC , but was never aired.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
With action set in the First World War and the 1920s, it may have been written then or at...
Textual Production Naomi Alderman
Another generically unusual work by NA is the script for a mini-drama filmed in Italy for the BBC , La Mappa Misteriosa, which is designed for anglophone listeners seeking to learn Italian. The players...
Textual Production Rose Tremain
BBC Radio 4 broadcast RT 's play One Night In Winter.
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Textual Production Andrea Levy
AL has had her short fiction read on BBC Radio 4 .
Hickman, Christie. “Andrea Levy: Under the skin of history”. The Independent, 6 Feb. 2004.
Her story Deborah appeared in volume 7 of the British Council 's New Writing, 1998, alongside far more established names. Loose Change...
Textual Production Julia O'Faolain
While working as a translator for the Council of Europe , JOF also set out, at her father's urging, to write professionally. Later, however, she felt she had made a false start as a writer...
Textual Production Jane Gardam
The title story was adapted for BBC television in 1982.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
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Textual Production Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda
She included essays previously published in Time and Tide about her travels to far-off places such as Gibraltar, Morocco, Greece, Egypt, and the holy places of the earth:
Rhondda, Margaret Haig, Viscountess. Notes on the Way. Books for Libraries Press, 1968.
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