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Performance of text Charlotte Mew
The dramatic version cannot be dated, but was completed by 1913.
Warner, Val. “New Light on Charlotte Mew”. PN Review, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1997, pp. 43-7.
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It did not reach production in CM 's lifetime, but the BBC presented it in 1953 as a half-hour radio drama.
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983.
309
According...
Performance of text Naomi Royde-Smith
A debate between NRS and Compton Mackenzie was held under the auspices of the Drama League , and broadcast live on BBC radio. Royde-Smith maintained that The Broadcast Play is an unsatisfactory Form of Art...
Performance of text Agatha Christie
AC had written two plays, Black Coffee (1930) and Akhnaton (written in 1937 but not published until 1973), before adapting her novel Ten Little Niggers for the stage. This opened at St James's Theatre ,...
Performance of text Michelene Wandor
MW 's early radio play on the life and work of Antonia White , Dust in the Sugar House, was broadcast on the BBC .
Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
Performance of text Elaine Feinstein
Two of these poems, Getting Older and Urban Lyric were read on BBC Radio Four 's Woman's Hour programme, and appear in the Woman's Hour 50th Anniversary Poetry Collection, 1996.
McLoughlin, Pat, editor. Woman’s Hour: 50th Anniversary Poetry Collection. Penguin, 1996.
150, 162
Performance of text Sylvia Plath
SP 's verse radio play Three Women: A Monologue for Three Voices was broadcast, posthumously, by the BBC .
Tabor, Stephen. Sylvia Plath: An Analytical Bibliography. Meckler, 1987.
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Performance of text Kathleen Jamie
A shorter version had been broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in 1985 under the title Rumours of Guns.
Jamie, Kathleen, and Lilias Fraser. Mr. and Mrs. Scotland are Dead. Bloodaxe Books, 2002.
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Performance of text Teresa Deevy
Its rejection was a heavy blow, since it signalled a change of attitude towards Deevy's work which had been brewing for several years.
The Teresa Deevy Archive. 2014, http://deevy.nuim.ie/.
Introduction
Wife to James Whelan was heard on BBC radio in Northern...
Performance of text Jackie Kay
Several of the poems had been broadcast on various BBC radio and television programmes, including When You Move Out on BBC Radio Four's Woman's Hour, and JK 's BBC 2 poetry documentary, Twice Through...
Performance of text Elizabeth Bowen
EB , Graham Greene , and V. S. Pritchett read on the BBC Third Programme letters which they had exchanged about the writer's role in society.
Greene, Graham. Graham Greene. A Life in Letters. Editor Greene, Richard, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
147
Performance of text Elizabeth Ham
EH 's autobiography was published, nearly a century after her death, as Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, after excerpts had been read on BBC programmes and printed in The Listener.
Ham, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820, edited by Eric Gillett, Faber and Faber, 1945, pp. 5-12.
5
Performance of text Kathleen Nott
A version of Offenbach 's comic opera Bluebeard was broadcast on BBC radio , adapted from the original by KN and Ernst Schoen , with a narrator to explain to listeners the plot and situations...
Performance of text Buchi Emecheta
BE 's teleplayA Kind of Marriage was aired by BBC Television as part of their Commonwealth Plays series.
Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann, 1994.
203, 213-14
Umeh, Marie, editor. Emerging Perspectives on Buchi Emecheta. Africa World Press, 1996.
459
Performance of text Michelene Wandor
BBC radio 4 broadcast MW 's radio play The Princess and the Carpenter, about the composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier and his patroness, Marie de Guise .
Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
Performance of text Alison Fell
They then adapted it for BBC Radio 3 , which broadcast it the following month. The script is among AF 's papers.
“Inventory. Acc. 12394. Alison Fell”. National Library of Scotland.

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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