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After many rejections, AU began a series involving the scapegrace Tim Rabbit with The Adventures of No Ordinary Rabbit, published by Faber in November 1937, with illustrations by Alec Buckels . Years later, a...

In 1985 JT married her second husband, Ian Curteis , a television director and dramatist known particularly for documentaries, dramatised biographies, and for challenging the left-wing hegemony at the BBC . His works include an...

BBC Radio 4 broadcast RT 's play One Night In Winter.

RT places her stories (as she indicates in the preliminary pages of Evangelista's Fan) in various venues before collecting them in volumes. Some have been read on BBC radio, some printed in newspapers like...

About the time of publication this book was read on BBC radio as A Book at Bedtime.

After Merivel was nominated for but did not win the Wellcome Trust book prize, RT contributed a brave, wry, self-mocking essay to The Guardian under the title The art of not winning. Over the...

VT broadcast on literary topics for La France libre via the BBC . This work earned her the Légion d'Honneur , awarded in 1950.

Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm was IT 's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote...

The writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm was VT 's uncle. A son of her grandfather's second marriage, he retained the original surname. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm...

ST 's greatest success began in, but did not stay in, the theatre world. One Sunday (a total collapse; I was exhausted) her eldest son enquired in that adolescent, self-pitying voice why they...

Many of these pieces had been first broadcast on BBC radio, not including the furiously satirical How To Be a Poet but including a warm tribute to an actual poet, Wilfred Owen .

At another performance two weeks later (with the script this time complete), the cast took fourteen curtain calls before Thomas took the final one alone. Other American readings followed. DT delivered the typed, completed manuscript...

The name of the fictional town or village of Llareggub (bugger all spelled backwards) had been in his mind for more than twenty years. He had discussed the project of a history of this...

It went out on the BBC Third Programme , with the Welsh actor Richard Burton taking Thomas's part as narrator, and with only three cosmetic cuts out of the originally stipulated bowdlerization. The BBC

At sixteen he left Australia (shortly after his mother returned to England) for Brussels, where he worked in business until, in 1935, he moved to England himself. He studied art, served in the army during...