Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
BBC
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Kamila Shamsie | Hosain remained in London, and eventually took up a job with the BBC
. During her time as a broadcaster, she presented her own women's programme for the BBC's Eastern Service, worked variously for the... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | J. K. Rowling | JFK investigated her mother's French roots and made a television programme for BBC One
about the results in April 2012. Her great-grandfather, Louis Volant, was born illegitimate in Paris, had a successful career in London... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Bowen | Cameron was Assistant Secretary for Education in Northamptonshire; he then became Secretary for Education in Oxfordshire, and later worked in schools programming for the BBC
. The marriage was a surprise to his friends, who... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Samuel Beckett | Following several other love-affairs (the earliest with a cousin, Peggy Sinclair
, who died young in 1933), SB
shared his life from about this time with pianist Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil
, whom he married in 1961... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
seems to have first met Hilda Matheson
just before the latter took over the role of central player in Vita Sackville-West
's love-life. But Matheson (director of talks for the BBC
, soon to... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Edith Somerville | Some commentators have argued that theirs was a lesbian, sexual relationship, and some that it was not. It was the subject of the radio play One Goodnight by Maureen Duffy
, broadcast by the BBC |
| Fictionalization | Anne Lister | It was in connection with her immediate or recent reputation that AL
was allegedly fictionalised both in Brontë
's Shirley and Rosa Kettle
's The Mistress of Langdale Hall, 1872. |
| Fictionalization | Naomi Jacob | BBC
radio aired a play by Harold Lang
and Kenneth Tynan
, The Quest for Corbett, in which NJ
played the lead role as Aphra Corbett, a preposterous woman writer modelled on herself. Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001. 180-1 |
| Fictionalization | Sir J. M. Barrie | Honours were showered upon Barrie in his later days. He was created a baronet in 1913 and awarded the Order of Merit in 1920. A number of universities honoured him, and in 1928 he became... |
| Fictionalization | Emmeline Pankhurst | June Purvis
traces the influence on EP
's reputation of the relations between her daughters. Sylvia
, estranged from her mother, portrayed her in The Suffragette Movement (1931, influentially reprinted in 1977) as a lost... |
| Fictionalization | Mary Seacole | Scholars of colonial discourse such as Simon Gikandi have found in her newly available narrative an avenue for exploring the complexity of the colonial subject's construction of identity, against whom to read better-known Victorian women... |
| Friends, Associates | Eleanor Rathbone | Both these two (Fry and Oakeley
) remained Rathbone's close friends. In a BBC
broadcast in 1956, Margery Fry
recalled one of her discussions with ER
on the social and professional possibilities open to educated... |
| Friends, Associates | Barbara Pym | BP
encountered Lord David Cecil
(Oxford
don, longtime admirer, and one of the two recent rediscoverers of her work) at a media event filmed by the BBC
and aired as Tea With Miss Pym. Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press, 1994. 44 |
| Friends, Associates | Stevie Smith | Her large circle of friends also included Sally Chilver
(author of A History of Socialism), novelists Inez Holden
, Olivia Manning
, and Cecily Mackworth
, Kay Dick
(assistant editor of John O'London's Weekly... |
| Friends, Associates | Charlotte Dempster | Isabella Elder was the widow of John Elder
, a famous Glasgow shipbuilder. When he died in 1869 he left her a fortune; she used it to buy and donate Northpark House in Glasgow as... |
Timeline
8 December 1936: The BBC for the first time televised a full-length...
Building item
8 December 1936
The BBC
for the first time televised a full-length ballet: William Walton
's Façade (derived from Edith Sitwell
) with Margot Fonteyn
and Robert Helpmann
.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
372
9 December 1936: BBC television broadcast its first cookery...
Building item
9 December 1936
BBC
television broadcast its first cookery demonstration: Moira Meighn
presented meals cookable in fifteen minutes on a single burner.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
373
12 May 1937: The coronation of King George VI became the...
National or international item
12 May 1937
The coronation of King George VI
became the first outside broadcast by the BBC
Television Service.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
238
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
373
Pedersen, Susan. “Sam, Caroline, Janet, Stella, Len, Helen, and Bob”. London Review of Books, Vol.
39
, No. 18, 21 Sept. 2017, pp. 19-22. 20
21 June 1937: The Wimbledon tennis tournament was televised...
Building item
21 June 1937
The Wimbledon tennis tournament was televised for the first time, by the BBC
.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
373
11 November 1937: The BBC made its first television broadcast...
National or international item
11 November 1937
The BBC
made its first television broadcast of the Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
373
1938: BBC radio began a broadcasting service to...
National or international item
1938
BBC
radio began a broadcasting service to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and countries throughout Europe, which ran until 1943.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
238-9
3 January 1938: The BBC's first foreign-language service...
National or international item
3 January 1938
The BBC
's first foreign-language service (in Arabic) began.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
373
16 November 1938: The BBC televised for the first time a play...
National or international item
16 November 1938
The BBC
televised for the first time a play direct from the theatre, J. B. Priestley
's When We Are Married.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
374
23 November 1938: The BBC televised underwater scenes for the...
National or international item
23 November 1938
The BBC
televised underwater scenes for the first time, during a training session for divers.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
374
24 May 1939: BBC television presented the first high-definition...
National or international item
24 May 1939
BBC
television presented the first high-definition coverage of the Derby at Epsom.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
374
23 August 1939: The BBC's London Calling was first broad...
National or international item
23 August 1939
The BBC
's London Calling was first broadcast.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
374
1 September 1939: The BBC television service was stopped for...
National or international item
1 September 1939
The BBC
television service was stopped for reasons of national defence.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
238
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
374
3 September 1939: Britain and France officially declared war...
National or international item
3 September 1939
Britain and France officially declared war on Germany.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
238
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
374
Mitchison, Naomi. Among You Taking Notes . . . The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison 1939-1945. Editor Sheridan, Dorothy, Oxford University Press, 1986.
35-7
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
44-7, 54
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
22-3
Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987.
311
19 September 1939: The BBC radio series It's That Man Again...
Building item
19 September 1939
The BBC
radio series It's That Man Again began: known as, and pronounced as, ITMA, and ridiculing the alleged doings of Adolf Hitler
, it became immensely popular.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
386
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