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RS was a prolific essayist who regularly wrote for many American and British publications, including The Nation and Athenæum, The Spectator, The Daily Mail, The Observer, and the New York Evening...

This brings together the contents of her three previous volumes of stories (putting those from the latest volume first), and adds two uncollected stories (one of them commissioned for BBC Radio 4 , 1993).

Her life with Behn had begun in 1973 or early 1974, she wrote later, after she had taken an honours degree in English without ever hearing Behn's existence hinted at. She was stunned by...

SS recorded a series of three programmes entitled Poems and Drawings, which was broadcast by the BBC .

Churchill thought of The Ants as a television play when she wrote it, but her agent sensibly sent it to radio. Between 1962 and 1973 CC wrote a number of short radio plays that...

These were IR's only books. She also wrote for radio and contributed the introduction to The Listening Corner Storybook, published for the BBC in 1985.

Inheritance was a huge success: it sold 20,000 copies by July 1932, and within a year had gone through ten editions; in time it was translated into eight languages. It was broadcast serially on the...

After John Profumo resigned from the Cabinet on 4 June 1963 following his detection in a lie to the House of Commons about his relationship with a prostitute, the BBC commissioned BB for a talk...

It began as an idea floated to the BBC in 1985, before such formalities as a synopsis were required. Its author had suppposed it of rather local interest (for recipients of housing benefit in the...

SS was interviewed by Derek Hart for the BBC Home Service; the interview is now available over the internet.

BE adapted the novella as a radio play for the BBC in 2012.

This publication was one of a group of four: the others are by Zoë Fairbairns , Valerie Miner , and Victoria Nelson . Three of Wandor's stories are revised from versions which appeared in Guests...

ML felt that Kipling was undervalued as a poet by her generation, for political rather than literary reasons. She selected and edited a volume of his poems (Kipling's English History) for the BBC in 1974.

DM has written a number of TV screenplays, both from her own prose and that of others, and in the form of original scripts, from which several of her novels were expanded. She has adapted...

SD has also written for radio (especially) and for television. Because she needed the money, she became a scriptwriter for two popular and successful BBC tv series: Grange Hill (set in a comprehensive school and...