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Television was proposed to her doubtfully as a medium so new to me, at a date after the publication of her memoir A Smile for the Past in 1959. She was ready to try...

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 ...

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...

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...

After appearing on the BBC programme New Voices in 1988, Breeze became involved with the British film, television, and theatre industries. In the 1990s alone, she contributed to television programmes, wrote two plays, and wrote...

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...

Meanwhile she prepared to receive evacuees from London, and volunteered for first aid work, nursing, and night shifts with the ARP (Air Raid Precaution) . After the war she became a member both of...

By then she had appeared on a couple of the BBC 's Brains Trust series.

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...

SH ran adventure playgrounds, an Adult Education Centre creche, and a children's rights workshop. She worked for the National Childbirth Trust , and also spent some time working in bookshops. In 1991, she held a...

In Autumn 1973 RG moved on from reading poetry for children on BBC radio to organising the same thing live, working with two young actors, first at libraries in London and then touring the country.

VM was invited to host a series of BBC radio broadcasts on literary figures.

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...

Her broadcasting career did not end with the war, but continued sporadically in the USA and even occasionally in England with the BBC .

In about 1971 GG began working as a broadcaster-journalist for mainline as well as fringe or underground publications. This aspect of her work included frequent appearances on BBC programmes, where she continues to appear in...