Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
113
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | |
Occupation | Caryl Churchill | While CC
was attending Oxford University, a student production of one of her plays brought her into contact with an agent, Margaret Ramsay
, who encouraged her to write for radio. From 1962 to the... |
Textual Production | Kate Clanchy | BBC Radio 3
broadcast readings and discussion by KC
and working-class poet Paul Farley
of poems by Philip Larkin
based on train travel around Larkinland and conversation with some of its denizens. “Children of the Whitsun Weddings”. BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature. |
Employer | Gillian Clarke | |
Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Leonard Woolf's decision proved a mistake. The book was not only praised to the skies by young, advanced reviewers, but also made the secondary Book of the Month for May by the newly-formed Book Society |
Textual Production | Ivy Compton-Burnett | The BBC
did a pre-publication adaptation by Christopher Sykes
: before the book appeared ICB
's friend Elizabeth Taylor
called it the new short BBC novel. Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen. 63 Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton. 244 |
Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Elizabeth Taylor
detailed the interest that attended this book's appearance. Published on a Monday, it was broadcast as a radio play on Wednesday, discussed on radio on Thursday by Daniel George
(who called the author... |
Textual Features | Catherine Cookson | In the particularly teasingly titled Go Tell It to Mrs. Golightly, 1977, a blind girl staying with her grandfather discovers a kidnapping. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. Jones, Kathleen. Catherine Cookson: The Biography. Constable. 272 |
Textual Production | Catherine Cookson | By the late 1980s, when she was past eighty herself and in precarious health, CC
had become an industry that supported a vast empire, with hundreds of people dependent on her for their livelihood. This... |
Textual Production | Wendy Cope | WC
's radio play Shall I Call Thee Bard? A Portrait of Jason Strugnell was broadcast by BBC
Radio 3. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Textual Features | Wendy Cope | |
Textual Features | Wendy Cope | The title punctures its own potential pretentiousness with reference to The Archers, the much-loved BBC
radio serial of country life. Cope's prose style, like her poetry, is dialogic and punchy. When she gave up... |
Textual Production | Jeni Couzyn | The acknowledgements reveal the author's involvement with a rich mix of cultural activities. The opening poem, This is my house (two stanzas of seven short lines), was commissioned for a documentary film of the same... |
Performance of text | Richmal Crompton | The BBC
filmed a play entitled Just William for television. The play was based on RC
's William books, and was then playing at the Granville Theatre
in Fulham. “William; Just William”. BBC: Guide to Comedy. |
Reception | Richmal Crompton | Critics were unfailingly enthusiastic, and the William books (with their US editions and European translations) were distributed and translated widely. Williams, Kay. Just Richmal. Genesis. 140 |
No bibliographical results available.