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Textual Production Harold Pinter
Pinter began this work as a radio play. The BBC archives hold a scene-by-scene plan he made for it, plus statements about overall themes and purpose. This plan was rejected in November 1958, but later...
Textual Production Elizabeth Jennings
She also joined with fellow-writers in letters to the Times on matters of public concern. She joined with forty well-known names (including Pamela Hansford Johnson ) on 25 September 1969 to defend keeping up the...
Textual Production Hilary Mantel
Within not much more than a year of publication this novel had sold more than 65,000 copies, overturning its author's feeling of having always been a very modest seller.
qtd. in
Taylor, Debbie. “Hilary Mantel”. Mslexia, No. 30, July 2006, pp. 46-8.
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Of a proposed BBC adaptation...
Textual Production Agatha Christie
Dorothy Sayers invited AC to contribute a segment to a BBC radio crime-serial entitled Behind the Screen.
Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, 1984, http://Rutherford HSS.
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Textual Production Nell Dunn
ND adapted her own fiction volume Up the Junction for television (the BBC 's Wednesday Play series) under the directorship of Ken Loach .
“Nell Dunn”. Alan Brodie Representation: Clients.
Gilbey, Ryan. “Putting the Manifesto before the Movie”. London Review of Books, 31 Oct. 2002, pp. 34-5.
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Textual Production Emmuska Baroness Orczy
A ten-part BBC television adaptation followed in 1969.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(15 April 1969): 14
Textual Production Naomi Alderman
NA 's short stories have appeared in the magazine Prospect, on BBC Radio 4 , and in various anthologies.
Alderman, Naomi. Naomi Alderman. Novels and Games. 2016, http://www.naomialderman.com/about/.
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 .
Mason, Edward J., and Tony Shryane. “My Word! (1956-1990)”. Radio Days: Whirligig: 1950’s British Radio Nostalgia.
Devlin, Polly, and E. Arnot Robertson. “Introduction”. Four Frightened People, Virago, 1982, p. vii - xix.
xvi
Textual Production Josephine Tey
Gordon Daviot (also known as JT ) published a volume of eight one-act plays (of which all but one had been broadcast on BBC Radio during the Second World War), Leith Sands, and Other Short Plays.
Henderson, Jennifer Morag. Josephine Tey, a life. Sandstone Press, 2015.
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Roy, Sandra. Josephine Tey. Twayne, 1980.
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Textual Production Phyllis Bottome
The BBC commissioned PB to prepare a script to be transmitted to North America on the Democracy Marches radio programme.
Calder, Robert. Beware the British Serpent. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004.
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Textual Production Anne Devlin
The opening instalment of AD 's three-part television adaptation of D. H. Lawrence 's novel The Rainbow was first aired on BBC One .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Schrank, Bernice, and William W. Demastes, editors. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995. Greenwood Press, 1997.
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Textual Production Agatha Christie
AC gave the first of two radio interviews preserved by the BBC ; in it she spoke of why she began writing and about her working methods and habits.
“BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4.
Textual Production Emmuska Baroness Orczy
Following a silent film of 1928 entitled The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (from the novel of the same title, 1922), Orczy and Julia Neilson gave permission for the filming of the work by London Film Productions
Textual Production Marghanita Laski
With Claud Cockburn , Cyril Connolly , Kenneth Tynan , Peter Forster , Wynford Vaughan Thomas , and Steven Watson , ML co-wrote the script for the BBC television comedy series Dig This Rhubarb.
Lewisohn, Mark. “Dig This Rhubarb”. The bbc.co.uk Guide to Comedy.
Textual Production Naomi Alderman
NA says this book was facilitated by the success of fictions about other, distinct communities: Zadie Smith 's White Teeth, Monica Ali 's Brick Lane, and especially influenced by Jeanette Winterson 's Oranges...

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