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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Buchi Emecheta
In 1987 BE published Family Bargain, a book for schoolchildren commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation .
Olendorf, Donna, editor. Something About the Author 66. Gale Research.
66
Contemporary Literary Criticism. Gale Research.
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Textual Production Buchi Emecheta
The work was published in adapted form as a novel in 1986 in Macmillan 's Pacesetters Series. BE has written other plays produced on television, including Tanya, a Black Woman, for the BBC
Textual Production Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
A ten-part BBC television adaptation followed in 1969.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(15 April 1969): 14
Textual Production Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
Following a silent film of 1928 entitled The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (from the novel of the same title, 1922), Orczy and Julia Neilson gave permission for the filming of the work by London Film Productions
Employer William Empson
He found himself teaching in primitive and personally dangerous conditions in distant universities, at least one a temporary, ad hoc organization—not only short of food but also teaching without books. He was the only European...
Performance of text Margiad Evans
ME 's talk on epilepsy was broadcast in the Silver Lining series on the BBC Light Programme.
Dearnley, Moira. Margiad Evans. University of Wales Press.
61, 76
Performance of text Margiad Evans
After this ME worked on a never-completed novel called The Widower's Tale, set in a forest community on the English side of the Welsh border in the later nineteenth century. She received an advance...
Textual Production Bernardine Evaristo
BE adapted the novella as a radio play for the BBC in 2012.
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/.
Performance of text Zoë Fairbairns
ZF 's radio play The Belgian Nurse was broadcast on BBC Radio Four .
Fairbairns, Zoë. “Radio”. Zoë Fairbairns.
Reception U. A. Fanthorpe
UAF 's poetry was broadcast on the BBC 's Woman's Hour and selected for Poems on the Underground. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1987, a CBE in...
Publishing Eleanor Farjeon
EF 's collaboration with her youngest brother, Herbert , began before the first world war in amateur entertainments, with spoof patriotic ballads like The Coastguard, whose bluff speaker prefers to let his little son...
Textual Production Eleanor Farjeon
One spur to this late work was Farjeon's indignation at a BBC radio programme in 1953 about Thomas, which was repeated despite her protest after the first broadcast. The programme maintained that she had been...
Performance of text Eleanor Farjeon
Her introduction confides that her writing of children's poetry originated in the death of her dream of being a real poet.
Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae.
61-2
One of these poems, Mrs. Malone, was read on BBC Radio Four's...
Performance of text Elaine Feinstein
The BBC broadcast EF 's television play Breath, first of a good deal of mostly unpublished drama she has written for TV and radio.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

Timeline

3 November 1956: Prime Minister Anthony Eden made one of a...

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3 November 1956

Prime Minister Anthony Eden made one of a series of ministerial broadcasts on the recent Suez crisis, which was covered by BBC television and ITV as well as the BBC radio service at home and...

24 September 1957: BBC television for schools began broadca...

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24 September 1957

BBC television for schools began broadcasting.

21 April 1958: Margery Fry died as almost a national celebrity:...

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21 April 1958

Margery Fry died as almost a national celebrity: criminal justice reformer, prison reformer, campaigner for victims' compensation, educationalist (briefly Principal of Somerville College ), writer on children's care and development, and latterly broadcaster (a regular...

14 July 1958: The BBC transmitted its first live television...

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14 July 1958

The BBC transmitted its first live television broadcast from Africa via Eurovision : coverage of Bastille Day in Algiers.

4 November 1958: BBC television broadcast the coronation of...

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4 November 1958

BBC television broadcast the coronation of Pope John XXIII via Eurovision .

Up to 8 October 1959: The BBC for the first time gave coverage...

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Up to 8 October 1959

The BBC for the first time gave coverage in its news broadcasts to a General Election campaign.

20 June 1960: Nan Winton became the first woman reader...

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20 June 1960

Nan Winton became the first woman reader of television network news on the BBC .

25 December 1960: Queen Elizabeth II's first pre-recorded Christmas...

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25 December 1960

Queen Elizabeth II 's first pre-recorded Christmas message was broadcast on BBC television.

1962: Publisher John Calder and writer's widow...

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1962

Publisher John Calder and writer's widow Sonia Orwell together organised at Edinburgh the first, highly successful Writers' Conference.

15 January 1963: The BBC removed its ban preventing comedy...

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15 January 1963

The BBC removed its ban preventing comedy programmes from discussing politics, sex, religion, or royalty.

New Year's Day 1964: The popular and long-running BBC programme...

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New Year's Day 1964

The popular and long-running BBC programme Top of the Pops was launched The presenter was Jimmy Savile , who years later was posthumously disgraced as a paedophile.
O’Hagan, Andrew. “Light Entertainment”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 21, pp. 5-8.
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1965: Peter Watson's The War Game, a television...

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1965

Peter Watson 's The War Game, a television film which imagines conditions in Britain in the aftermath of a nuclear attack, was withdrawn by the BBC in response to government pressure.

16 December 1966: The BBC screened its famous Wednesday play...

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16 December 1966

The BBC screened its famous Wednesday playCathy Come Home, a drama about a homeless family written by Jeremy Sandford (husband of Nell Dunn ), produced by Tony Garnett , and directed by Ken Loach .

1967: The BBC began the first regular colour television...

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1967

The BBC began the first regular colour television service in Europe.

30 September 1967: The BBC's Third Programme was renamed Radio...

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30 September 1967

The BBC 's Third Programme was renamed Radio 3 , and revised to cut down the proportion of spoken word material broadcast in favour of classical music.

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