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Textual Production Susan Hill
SH had already broadcast ten plays by the time the BBC published The Cold Country, and Other Plays for Radio, a collection of five of these pieces.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1976
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Marina Warner
MW 's first filmscript was followed by two others written for Cinderella and Imaginary Women, both produced in 1986. She also wrote a television script for Tell Me More, screened on BBC 's...
Textual Production Caryl Churchill
CC 's unpublished manuscripts are held at the University of Bristol (Women's Theatre Archive, Department of Drama). The National Sound Archive at the British Library holds tape recordings of stage and radio plays. Radio play...
Textual Production Bernardine Evaristo
Evaristo contributes to various periodicals and reviews for the Guardian and the Independent. She has written drama and fiction for BBC Radio 4 .
Evaristo, Bernardine. Bernardine Evaristo, Writer. http://bevaristo.com/.
Textual Production Sarah Daniels
SD considered she had never enjoyed anything so much as collaborative work on the BBC World Service radio soap Westway (in work broadcast in November 1997).
Bull, John, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 245. Gale Research.
114-15
This involved six writers driving the producers mad...
Textual Production Jean Rhys
Diaz needed the author's permission for the performance, and on November 5th she put an advertisement in the New Statesman to find her. At this point, Rhys was living in obscurity in the country, and...
Textual Production Shelagh Delaney
SD 's contributions to BBC radio include So Does the Nightingale (1980) and Don't Worry about Matilda (broadcast in 1983 and produced in 1987). Tell Me a Film, 2003, and Baloney Said Salome...
Textual Production Marghanita Laski
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.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Textual Production Liz Lochhead
The BBC broadcast LL 's television play Sweet Nothings; it was published the same year.
Lochhead, Liz. True Confessions and New Clichés. Polygon Books.
111
Textual Production Penelope Shuttle
She dedicated this volume to her husband , daughter, mother , and father . Many of its contents had appeared in journals or anthologies, or had been broadcast on the BBC . Two had featured...
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.
Textual Production Naomi Jacob
NJ made an additional career as a public lecturer; without any specialist expertise, she could express confident and articulate opinions on a wide range of topics. She was a regular and outspoken contributor to the...
Textual Production Sara Maitland
In due time they followed this sequel volume with a twentieth-anniversary set of stories broadcast by the BBC .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
271
Textual Production G. B. Stern
GBS often broadcast on the BBC . She reviewed books, and later remembered an encounter with an old typescript of a review of A. E. Gallatin 's Sir Max Beerbohm —Bibliographical Notes, 1944, during...
Textual Production G. B. Stern
GBS did her writing early in the day: sometimes before breakfast, always from ten to one.
Stern, G. B. Trumpet Voluntary. Cassell.
51
The major collection of her papers at Boston University includes letters and proofs. More letters are in the...

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8 May 1945: This day, the one following the formal, unconditional...

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8 May 1945

This day, the one following the formal, unconditional German surrender to the Allies at Rheims in France, was called V. E. Day or VE Day.

Late 1945: André Deutsch established the publishing...

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Late 1945

André Deutsch established the publishing firm Allan Wingate in Great Cumberland Street, London.

3 September 1945: The Forces Educational Broadcasts began on...

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3 September 1945

The Forces Educational Broadcasts began on BBC radio.

4 March 1946: The BBC broadcast the first Housewives' Choice...

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4 March 1946

The BBC broadcast the first Housewives' Choice programme.

24 March 1946: Alistair Cooke made his first Letter from...

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24 March 1946

Alistair Cooke made his first Letter from America broadcast for the BBC . This series was meant to run for thirteen weeks, but when its last new instalment aired on 20 February 2004 it was...

7 June 1946: The BBC television service resumed after...

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7 June 1946

The BBC television service resumed after the war.

8 June 1946: Britain's Victory Parade marking the end...

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8 June 1946

Britain's Victory Parade marking the end of the Second World War was televised by the BBC .

7 July 1946: BBC television broadcast to children for...

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7 July 1946

BBC television broadcast to children for the first time, in For the Children.

29 September 1946: The BBC's Third Programme began radio br...

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29 September 1946

The BBC 's Third Programme began radio broadcasting.

7 October 1946: The BBC first broadcast a new programme:...

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7 October 1946

The BBC first broadcast a new programme: Woman's Hour. (It succeeded to a short-lived Women's Hour, first broadcast on 2 May 1923.)

6 February 1947: The Fourteen-Day Rule was formalized in Britain,...

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6 February 1947

The Fourteen-Day Rule was formalized in Britain, by which no bill coming before parliament within the next two weeks was to be discussed on the BBC .

6 November 1947: Designed for Women with Jeanne Heal was first...

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6 November 1947

Designed for Women with Jeanne Heal was first aired on BBC television.

20 November 1947: Princess Elizabeth married the Duke of Edinburgh;...

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20 November 1947

Princess Elizabeth married the Duke of Edinburgh ; BBC radio broadcast the wedding service, and BBC television covered the procession as well.

1948: Leading obstetrician and gynaecologist Josephine...

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1948

Leading obstetrician and gynaecologist Josephine Barnes gave great offence with a series of talks on BBC radio about women's health. Subjects like bleeding, ovaries, and hormonal changes were deemed unfit for airing in public.

1948: Leading obstetrician and gynaecologist Josephine...

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1948

Leading obstetrician and gynaecologist Josephine Barnes gave great offence with a series of talks on BBC radio about women's health. Subjects like bleeding, ovaries, and hormonal changes were deemed unfit for airing in public.

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