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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Penelope Shuttle
Rosemary Dinnage in a Times Literary Supplement review contrasted contemporary openness about childbirth with the continuing block on mentioning menstruation. She cited a recent example in which Margaret Drabble had mentioned the subject on BBC
Literary responses Anna Leonowens
Twentieth-century responses are often critical of AL 's books, and have questioned the validity of her reports of harem life. Ian Grimble's BBC production called AL a mischief maker, a squalid little girl, ....
Literary Setting Maureen Duffy
Albert Square is fictional, a place immediately recognisable to most of MD 's readers as the home of the BBC soap opera East Enders. MD impartially investigates both popular and unpopular phenomena: Boadicea and...
Material Conditions of Writing Alison Uttley
AU , whose experience of public speaking had included a lecture on Writing for Children, spoke bravely on BBC TV's Book Programme in the month of her ninety-first birthday.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph, 1986.
206, 256
Material Conditions of Writing Antonia White
AW was given three weeks to produce a booklet about her employer, the BBC : BBC at War.
Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998.
271
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 Freya Stark
After an August 1933 massacre of Assyrian civilians by the Iraqi Army, FS was in demand as an authority on Iraq. She spoke at the BBC , the Forum , and the Royal Central Asia Society
Occupation Ruth Padel
In 2007 she sat on the panel judging the Eric Gregory awards for new writing. In 2008 she became the first writer in residence at Somerset House and the first poet in residence for the...
Occupation Viola Meynell
VM was invited to host a series of BBC radio broadcasts on literary figures.
MacKenzie, Raymond N. A Critical Biography of English Novelist Viola Meynell, 1885-1956. Edwin Mellen, 2002.
311 and n36, 312-13
Occupation Mary Agnes Hamilton
MAH served as a Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation .
She writes first that notice of the appointment came in December 1932, but twice later that she served from 1 January 1932.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
280, 288, 295
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
280, 288, 295
Occupation George Orwell
GO organised and produced talks broadcast by the Far Eastern section of the BBC (largely to India), on topics ranging from the war to English poetry.
Davison, Peter. George Orwell: A Literary Life. St Martin’s Press, 1996.
xxi-xxii
Occupation Mary Kingsley
MK helped to initiate the Royal African Society , which was founded in her name in 1901 just after her death. Today the Society's website offers a biography and some striking pictures of MK ...
Occupation Jan Struther
Her broadcasting career did not end with the war, but continued sporadically in the USA and even occasionally in England with the BBC .
Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray, 2001.
265
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 Maureen Duffy
She also participated in debates in the 1950s and 1960s on homosexual law reform in Britain. At the time when the 1967 Sexual Offences Act became law, she discussed the BBC 2 television documentary...

Timeline

29 July 1948: The BBC broadcast a television programme...

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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...

National or international item

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.
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, 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.
of access through radio and television to millions of homes was too great to be allowed out of public institutional hands.
“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...

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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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