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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. http://borneback.com/ .
4 November 2008
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 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 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 Daisy Ashford
In July 1919, DA did a reading of a chapter of the book at a private party, which went better than anticipated, despite her nerves. She was offered an opportunity to do a lecture tour...
Performance of text Elizabeth Jennings
The Leamington Poetry Society published a 4-page leaflet (plus cover) of EJ 's poems, titled with her name, in March 1987.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Twelve years later the British Council published an audiocassette of poetry which features her...
Performance of text Iris Murdoch
IM 's verse play with music, The One Alone, had its world premiere, at 9.15 p.m. on BBC Radio Three.
Fletcher, John, and Cheryl Bove. Iris Murdoch: A Descriptive Primary and Annotated Secondary Bibliography. Garland Publishing.
177
Performance of text Louise Page
This was also performed in July the same year at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and was adapted for broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 23 November 1978 (after some thought of...
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...
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.
11
Performance of text Mary Stewart
One of MS 's four radio plays written this year (or this and the previous year), Lift from a Stranger, was broadcast on BBC radio.
Friedman, Lenemaja. Mary Stewart. Twayne Publishers.
127
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Performance of text Meiling Jin
It was read on BBC Radio 4 in August 1997.
Performance of text Laura Riding
The BBC Third Programme broadcast, together with a reading of poems by LR , her statement about her loss of faith in poetry.
Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books.
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Performance of text Dylan Thomas
It went out on the BBC Third Programme , with the Welsh actor Richard Burton taking Thomas's part as narrator, and with only three cosmetic cuts
Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas. A New Life. Overlook Press.
377
out of the originally stipulated bowdlerization. The BBC
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...

Timeline

21 June 1969: Queen Elizabeth II and her family, in tune...

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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.

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.

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 .

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.

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 .

28 February 1977: Moonshine, a play by Shirley Gee, was produced...

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28 February 1977

Moonshine, a play by Shirley Gee , was produced and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 .

16 August 1979: BBC Radio 4 broadcast Shirley Gee's Bedr...

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16 August 1979

BBC Radio 4 broadcastShirley Gee 's Bedrock.

1980: Shirley Gee's Typhoid Mary was included in...

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1980

Shirley Gee 's Typhoid Mary was included in the BBC 's Best Radio Plays of 1979: The Giles Cooper Award Winners.

16 October 1987: In the early hours of the morning a violent...

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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