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Connections Author name Excerpt
Performance of text Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW 's radio play Scenes of Seduction was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 .
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Performance of text Harold Pinter
The plays were heard on BBC radio in 1968, while awaiting a licence for the stage.
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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 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
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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 E. H. Young
The actress Gladys Young read aloud on a BBC radio programme an unascribed story about a haunted country house which was apparently by her sister EHY .
Mezei, Kathy, and Chiara Briganti. “’She must be a very good novelist’: Rereading E. H. Young (1880-1949)”. English Studies in Canada, Vol.
27
, No. 3, Sept. 2001, pp. 303-31.
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Performance of text Caryl Churchill
CC 's radio play The Ants was aired on the BBC .
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996.
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Performance of text Dorothy L. Sayers
DLS 's retelling of the Nativity, He That Should Come, was broadcast on the BBC 's Children's Hour.
Brabazon, James. Dorothy L. Sayers. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1981.
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Gilbert, Colleen B. A Bibliography of the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers. Macmillan, 1978.
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Performance of text Richmal Crompton
The BBC filmed a play entitled Just William for television. The play was based on RC 's William books, and was then playing at the Granville Theatre in Fulham.
“William; Just William”. BBC: Guide to Comedy.
Performance of text E. H. Young
Later stories, like The Grey Mare (17 February 1948) and Cow's Tail (20 September 1950) were also read on the BBC .
Briganti, Chiara, and Kathy Mezei. Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E. H. Young. Ashgate, 2006.
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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.
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The volume appeared in paperback from Abacus in 1984.
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 Lilian Bowes Lyon
LBL 's poem Battlefield appeared in the Listener after having been read aloud on BBC wireless, or radio.
Dowson, Jane, editor. Women’s Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology. Routledge, 1996.
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Performance of text Harold Pinter
A recording of this sketch was broadcast by BBC Radio 3 the following day. It appeared in print in Harold Pinter Plays 4, 2012.
“Harold Pinter (1930 - 2008)”. doollee.com: Playwrights.
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. 18 July 2011, 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 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, 1982.
61, 76

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.
“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.
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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.
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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.
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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 .
“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...

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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.
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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