“Talking to Myself”. BBC Radio 4.
BBC
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Performance of text | Harold Pinter | This play reached print the same year. Its origins lay in the story of a Jewish friend of Pinter's from Hackney who married a gentile, emigrated, and kept his marriage secret from his family. Hall |
Performance of text | Hilary Mantel | HM
read her contribution to BBC Radio 4
's Talking to Myself, in which authors address their earlier selves: a letter to herself at the age of seven, excerpted from her Giving Up the Ghost. |
Performance of text | Michelene Wandor | Since the early 1990s, MW
has turned her attention to music. Her libretti and radio plays include works based on poems by John Cornford
, John Milton
, and Ariosto
: Spain, first performed... |
Performance of text | Ruth Padel | The earliest stories that RP
mentions on her website are two that appeared in journals in 2001: Tigersex in the Dublin Review in May and The Last Tiger in Prospect Magazine in September. We're So... |
Performance of text | Harold Pinter | The plays were heard on BBC radio
in 1968, while awaiting a licence for the stage. qtd. in Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Performance of text | Hilary Mantel | HM
's short-story volume Learning to Talk was published to coincide with a dramatisation of the stories on BBC Radio 4
's Woman's Hour and to follow closely on the publication of Giving Up the Ghost. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Performance of text | Zoë Fairbairns | ZF
's radio play The Belgian Nurse was broadcast on BBC Radio Four
. Fairbairns, Zoë. “Radio”. Zoë Fairbairns. |
Performance of text | Dylan Thomas | Many of these pieces had been first broadcast on BBC
radio, not including the furiously satirical How To Be a Poet but including a warm tribute to an actual poet, Wilfred Owen
. Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ . 4 November 2008 |
Performance of text | Helen Dunmore | HD
's first radio play, The Mironov Legacy, a dramatisation of actual historical material, was broadcast as BBC Radio Four
's Afternoon Play. Dunmore, Helen. Helen Dunmore. http://www.helendunmore.com/index.asp. |
Performance of text | Sarah Waters | She carried out as much research as available sources permitted into lesbian lives in England of the 1940s, and spent four years working on this novel (as compared with one year for her first). She... |
Performance of text | Dorothy L. Sayers | DLS
organised an experimental radio mystery play, The Scoop, by herself and Detection Club
members E. C. Bentley
, Anthony Berkeley
, Freeman Wills Crofts
, and Clemence Dane
. It was broadcast serially on the BBC
. Sayers, Dorothy L. et al. “The Scoop: Parts I-XII”. The Listener, Vol. 5 . |
Performance of text | Philip Larkin | Still struggling, PL
published in 1954 an untitled leaflet of poems with the Fantasy Press
of Eynsham in Oxfordshire (number 21 of their Fantasy Poets). His poems were also by this time being read... |
Performance of text | Sarah Daniels | A commission from Caroline Raphael
, then head of Radio 5
, resulted in SD
's original radio play Purple Side Coasters, broadcast on BBC Radio 4
on 16 November 1995 and dealing with post-natal depression. Aston, Elaine, and Geraldine Harris. Performance Practice and Process: Contemporary (Women) Practitioners. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 86 Bull, John, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 245. Gale Research, 2001. 114-15 |
Performance of text | Shena Mackay | Three of these stories had been read on BBC Radio 3
in 1982. Mackay, Shena. Collected Short Stories. Penguin, 1994. vii, viii British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Performance of text | Catherine Byron |
Timeline
21 June 1969: Queen Elizabeth II and her family, in tune...
National or international item
21 June 1969
Queen Elizabeth II
and her family, in tune with the lowering of boundaries of the time period, provided the BBC
unprecedented access to their lives for the documentary The Royal Family.
“The Queen at 80: Timeline”. BBC News.
10 April 1974: The Annan Committee began work on its enquiry...
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10 April 1974
The Annan Committee
began work on its enquiry into the structure, funding, and future of British broadcasting.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Annan
5 November 1974: Shirley Gee's first radio play, Stones, was...
Women writers item
5 November 1974
Shirley Gee
's first radio play, Stones, was produced for BBC Radio 3
.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
245
1976: Angela Rippon became the first woman newsreader...
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1976
Angela Rippon
became the first woman newsreader on British television (BBC
); the job lasted only six years, though she acquired an enthusiastic public.
Steele, Sir Richard, and Joseph Addison, editors. The Guardian. J. Tonson.
(14 August 2000): G2 4
By 11 October 1976: More people in Britain held licences for...
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By 11 October 1976
More people in Britain held licences for colour television sets than for black and white: the licence fee continued, to fund the BBC
.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
416
28 February 1977: Moonshine, a play by Shirley Gee, was produced...
Women writers item
28 February 1977
Moonshine, a play by Shirley Gee
, was produced and broadcast by BBC Radio 4
.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
245
16 August 1979: BBC Radio 4 broadcast Shirley Gee's Bedr...
Women writers item
16 August 1979
BBC Radio 4
broadcast Shirley Gee
's Bedrock.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
245
1980: Shirley Gee's Typhoid Mary was included in...
Women writers item
1980
Shirley Gee
's Typhoid Mary was included in the BBC
's Best Radio Plays of 1979: The Giles Cooper Award Winners.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
16 October 1987: In the early hours of the morning a violent...
National or international item
16 October 1987
In the early hours of the morning a violent storm battered the south of England, with winds reaching a hundred kilometres an hour in some places.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Tew, Philip. Zadie Smith. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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24 May 1988: The Local Government Act came into force...
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24 May 1988
The Local Government Act came into force in Britain, containing the highly controversial section 28, forbidding local authorities from promoting homosexuality.
“The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association.
1991: The Listener, founded early in 1929 as the...
Writing climate item
1991
The Listener, founded early in 1929 as the journal of the BBC
, ceased publication.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
507
22 April 1993: Young white thugs made an unprovoked knife...
National or international item
22 April 1993
Young white thugs made an unprovoked knife attack on a Black teenager, Stephen Lawrence
, and a friend with whom he was waiting at a bus-stop in Eltham, south-east London. The pair ran, but Stephen...
16 June 2003: A BBC television quiz programme, The Professionals...
Writing climate item
16 June 2003
A BBC
television quiz programme, The Professionals (successor to University Challenge), which pits against each other teams of journalists, meteorologists, psychiatrists or whatever, fielded a team of poets.
“Poetry Society News: News Archive”. The Poetry Society, London.
10 September 2003: Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of...
Writing climate item
10 September 2003
Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of the Week a website entitled Poetry Landmarks of Britain: a map of poetic assocations plotted on an interactive map of Britain, searchable by region or category.
“Poetry Society News: News Archive”. The Poetry Society, London.
20 June 2006: The BBC cancelled its flagship pop music...
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20 June 2006
The BBC
cancelled its flagship pop music programme, Top of the Pops, after forty-two years on the air.
“BBC Calls Time on Top of the Pops”. BBC News: Entertainment, 20 June 2006.
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