BBC

SD wrote several television scripts in the 1970s and early 1980s. The first was Did Your Nanny Come from Bergen? for the BBC in 1970.

VW broadcast in a BBC series called Words Fail Me a talk with the title Craftsmanship; however, she used her talk to attack the title as wholly inappropriate to the use of words.

It was adapted as a BBC radio play and re-titled as Miss Lavender is Dead, in 1970.

In The Heroes of Clone Kennedy uses a present-day frame story, and the different interpretations of twentieth-century commentators, to present a mid-Victorian woman writer, Dorothea Harding, who used a frame story to convey a tale...

Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad,MAH gives a long, evocative first chapter to her parents and her childhood. She adds...

She continued to travel extensively over the subsequent decades, occasionally with the BBC and other film crews, and more often with her various godchildren (among whom she was known to favour her godsons).

They had a permit for the early part of their journey, and relied on the inaccessability of later stages to protect them from unwelcome official notice. Their route, which lay through the remote province of...

This house had enormous sash windows, pouring in light . . . . a groundwork of timeless elegance and beauty. The move (made because of her husband's new job with the BBC ) meant...

In early October 1994 RG flew to Delhi for a final visit to India, travelling with a BBC crew to make a film about her life for the programme Bookmark. They went to Kashmir...

By the date of her retirement, Pym's annual salary was a low £1,764. She and her sister Hilary lived on this and on Hilary's income as a BBC producer. Pym's books had at this date...