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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 | Selima Hill | 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... |
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. 265 |
Occupation | Rumer Godden | |
Occupation | George Orwell | |
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 | 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. 149 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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 | 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 | Germaine Greer | |
Occupation | Una Marson | |
Occupation | Una Marson | UM
made a series of influential radio broadcasts for the BBC
's West Indian Service on the Women's Institute
movement in Britain. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press. 154, 156n50 |
Occupation | Storm Jameson | In her autobiography Jameson also briefly mentions compiling a report on women in munitions factories for the Ministry of Supply
at this time. She spoke on the BBC
at least once, in a radio address... |
Occupation | Berta Ruck | Television was proposed to her doubtfully as a medium so new to me, Ruck, Berta. An Asset to Wales. Hutchinson. 184 |
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. 565 |
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