Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.
BBC
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Michelene Wandor | MW
's first radio play, Correspondence, about a divorcee who becomes a student, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4
. |
| Performance of text | Elaine Feinstein | |
| 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 |
| 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 | Ruth Padel | RP
has broadcast programmes of her own on BBC Radio 3
and Radio 4
about the work of composers, scientists, and writers. She chose the title Close Encounters for a series of interval talks about... |
| 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 | Teresa Deevy | |
| 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 | 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. “Talking to Myself”. BBC Radio 4. |
| 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 | 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... |
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...
Building item
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.
30
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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