qtd. in
Gittings, Robert, and Frances Bellerby. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by Anne Stevenson and Anne Stevenson, Enitharmon Press, 1986.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Frances Bellerby | |
| Literary responses | Mary Renault | |
| Literary Setting | Maureen Duffy | |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Alison Uttley | |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Antonia White | |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Carol Shields | While she was enrolled in a magazine-writing course at the University of Toronto
, CS
wrote a story which to her amazement her instructor arranged to have broadcast on the CBC
, and over the... |
| Occupation | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Meanwhile she prepared to receive evacuees from London, and volunteered for first aid work, nursing, and night shifts with the ARP (Air Raid Precaution)
. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 311 |
| Occupation | Clemence Dane | By then she had appeared on a couple of the BBC
's Brains Trust series. Dane, Clemence. London Has a Garden. Michael Joseph, 1964. 58 |
| Occupation | P. D. James | She retired to become a full-time writer at the end of 1979, six months before her sixtieth birthday. Then she served as a magistrate for Willesden (1979-82) and for Inner London (1984). She has been... |
| Occupation | Virginia Woolf | Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
gave their first broadcast for the BBC
—a talk entitled Are Too Many Books Written and Published? Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996. 565 |
| Occupation | Una Marson | UM
became a full-time programme assistant on the BBC
's Empire Service from London, for which she managed the programme Calling the West Indies. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998. 149 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Occupation | E. Arnot Robertson | During the Second World War, EAR
worked as a government adviser on films. After the war she returned to reviewing films on radio. She was a broadcaster of note, particularly as a panellist on The... |
| Occupation | Irene Handl | She was still working in the last year of her life, when she played another spiritualist medium role in Never Say Day, which was shown on BBC
Channel Four. |
| Occupation | Virginia Woolf | VW
broadcast again, on her own, in 1937. Part of her broadcast (a reading of her essay Craftsmanship) is in the National Sound Archive of the British Library
(M7060). The only extant recording of... |
| Occupation | Barbara Pym | This work had an impact on her own writing, which continued to be her primary focus. Hazel Holt
observes that she was a capable and conscientious editor but had no real interest in Africa as... |
Timeline
29 July 1948: The BBC broadcast a television programme...
Building item
29 July 1948
The BBC
broadcast a television programme on the opening of the Olympic Games
from Wembley Stadium in still visibly bomb-damaged London. This was the first Olympics to be televised.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
380
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
11 October 1948: The first outside BBC television broadcast...
National or international item
11 October 1948
The first outside BBC
television broadcast was made: from Number 10 Downing Street for the Commonwealth Conference
.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
239
March 1949: Elizabeth Bowen's feature on 1918 was broadcast...
Women writers item
March 1949
Elizabeth Bowen
's feature on 1918 was broadcast on the BBC
's Third Programme
series A Year I Remember.
Whitehead, Kate. The Third Programme: A Literary History. Clarendon Press, 1989, http://UofA Rutherford North.
131-2
29 July 1949: BBC television aired its first weather b...
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29 July 1949
BBC
television aired its first weather broadcast.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
381
4 September 1949: The surface of the moon was televised by...
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4 September 1949
The surface of the moon was televised by the BBC
for the first time, through a powerful telescope.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
381
16 January 1950: The BBC made its first broadcast of Listen...
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16 January 1950
The BBC
made its first broadcast of Listen with Mother.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
381
23 February 1950: The General Election brought 84 percent of...
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23 February 1950
The General Election brought 84 percent of the British electorate out to vote. The BBC
aired the first televised report of results of this election.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
381
Schott, Ben. Schott’s Original Miscellany. Bloomsbury, 2002.
102
McKibbin, Ross. “Not Pleasing the Tidy-Minded”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 8, 24 Apr. 2008, pp. 30-1. 31
Johnson, R. W. “Already a Member”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 17, 11 Sept. 2014, pp. 31-2. 32
27 August 1950: The BBC made its first live television broadcast...
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27 August 1950
The BBC
made its first live television broadcast from the Continent (from Calais) using outside broadcast equipment.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
381
30 September 1950: The BBC aired its first live air-to-ground...
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30 September 1950
The BBC
aired its first live air-to-ground television broadcast, from an aircraft in flight.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
239
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
381
26 October 1950: The BBC made its first sound and television...
National or international item
26 October 1950
The BBC
made its first sound and television broadcast from the House of Commons, on the occasion of the opening of the rebuilt chamber.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
381
January 1951: The Beveridge Committee on Broadcasting reported...
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January 1951
The BeveridgeCommittee on Broadcasting
reported that the propaganda power
“Media quotations from official sources”. Terra Media: Quotations.
“Media quotations from official sources”. Terra Media: Quotations.
1 January 1951: After a one-week trial the previous May,...
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1 January 1951
After a one-week trial the previous May, The Archers, countryside soap-opera of BBC
radio, began regular broadcasting; it soon attracted two million listeners.
Reynolds, Gillian. “The Archers - whose side are you on?”. Daily Telegraph, 28 Dec. 2000, p. 27.
27
May 1951: The BBC experimentally launched a comic radio...
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May 1951
The BBC
experimentally launched a comic radio series, Crazy People; as The Goon Show, it ran for nine years and became a household word.
Dixon, Stephen. “Obituary: Spike Milligan”. Guardian Weekly, 7–13 Mar. 2002, p. 22.
22
6 June 1951: The BBC made its first broadcast from Buckingham...
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6 June 1951
The BBC
made its first broadcast from Buckingham Palace, on the occasion of a State Banquet for King Haakon
of Norway.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
239
4 October 1951: E. M. Forster's praise for the accomplishments...
Writing climate item
4 October 1951
E. M. Forster
's praise for the accomplishments of the BBC's Third Programme
was published in The Listener.
Whitehead, Kate. The Third Programme: A Literary History. Clarendon Press, 1989, http://UofA Rutherford North.
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