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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.

They then adapted it for BBC Radio 3 , which broadcast it the following month. The script is among AF 's papers.

The National Library of Scotland holds a collection of AF 's diaries, notebooks, and drafts of poems, novels, plays, and radio and film scripts, audio recordings, programmes for BBC Radio Scotland , letters, and photos...

PF published her fourth novel, Human Voices, which draws on her years working at the BBC in London during the Second World War.

As a child Penelope Knox, together with her brother produced a family magazine. In 1980 she observed: The stories I wrote at the age of eight and nine did not bring me the success I...

Mollie Hardwick in Books and Bookmen pronounced this to be a delicate water-colour of a novel, small and charming.PF 's winning of the coveted, ten-thousand-pound Booker Prize for it suggests that others saw more...

Just after war was declared in September 1939 RF wrote to The Times suggest that the BBC should broadcast the opinions of ordinary people in neutral countries. She quoted comments she had herself recently heard...

After 1924, EMF turned from writing novels to social and political causes, in particular the issue of freedom of expression. In 1928 he campaigned against the suppression of Radclyffe Hall 's The Well of Loneliness...

In 2008 two separate collections appeared of uncollected essays and broadcasts by Forster: The BBC Talks of E. M. Forster, 1929-60: A Selected Edition, edited by Mary Lago and others, and The Creator as...

While bringing up her children, AF persevered with the writing career she had already launched. As the wife of a wealthy man, she did voluntary work of various kinds, chairing the Prison Committee and, for...

She wanted to be a journalist, but was rejected for the first job she applied for, on the Church Times (whose editor was then Rosamund Essex ). She was taken on as secretary to a...

By 1967 MF had worked as a journalist for the BBC , had covered religious affairs for the Guardian and the Spectator, and was writing a regular column for the Daily Mail.

This book was adapted as a serial on the BBC radio programme Woman's Hour.

JG 's younger son, Tom, caused her terror in his teens when a large hole was discovered in his thigh bone. He recovered, however. Her eldest, Tim , after a successful career with the BBC

The title story was adapted for BBC television in 1982..