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Textual Production Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
Following a silent film of 1928 entitled The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (from the novel of the same title, 1922), Orczy and Julia Neilson gave permission for the filming of the work by London Film Productions
Textual Production Ivy Compton-Burnett
The BBC did a pre-publication adaptation by Christopher Sykes : before the book appeared ICB 's friend Elizabeth Taylor called it the new short BBC novel.
Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen.
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Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton.
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Textual Production Mary Wesley
It appeared exactly a year after she had finished the first draft (working title Period Piece) and put away the manuscript (written in ink on paper of A4 size, with lines but without margins)...
Textual Production Beryl Bainbridge
When she was pregnant for the first time, BB set about trying to earn some money by writing and recording a story for BBC children's radio. Ceedy Man and the Bellringers developed into a series...
Textual Production Sarah Daniels
The Sound Barrier by SD , broadcast on Radio 4 in 2004 and repeated in 2007, was directed by Sally Avens . Daniels had at first planned to call it The Long Silence. Her...
Textual Production Hilary Mantel
Within not much more than a year of publication this novel had sold more than 65,000 copies, overturning its author's feeling of having always been a very modest seller.
Taylor, Debbie. “Hilary Mantel”. Mslexia, No. 30, pp. 46-8.
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Of a proposed BBC adaptation...
Textual Production Enid Blyton
EB was interviewed by Marjorie Anderson for the BBC Home Service , a programme later re-broadcast on BBC Woman's Hour.
“BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4.
Textual Production Anne Devlin
AD 's television play The Long March was shown on BBC One .
Devlin, Anne. Ourselves Alone. Faber and Faber.
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Cerquoni, Enrica. “In Conversation with Anne Devlin”. Theatre Talk: Voices of Irish Theatre Practitioners, edited by Lilian Chambers et al., Carysfort Press, pp. 107-23.
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Textual Production E. Arnot Robertson
EAR published stories in The Passing Show and Lilliput (from which one, Peace Comes to a Ministry, was selected by Kaye Webb for inclusion in the anthology Lilliput Goes to War, 1985). Over...
Textual Production Helen Dunmore
This was the first of HD 's novels to be published in the United States (in 1997). In 2001, HD participated in a discussion of the work on BBC 's Book Club show.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Textual Production Claire Luckham
CL 's musical adaptation of Defoe 's novel Moll Flanders was staged in 1986. More recently she has performed a valuable service by providing the catalyst for the delivery to radio audiences of much women's...
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
This publication was one of a group of four: the others are by Zoë Fairbairns , Valerie Miner , and Victoria Nelson . Three of Wandor's stories are revised from versions which appeared in Guests...
Textual Production Joan Aiken
As the title indicates, JA recast this in book from pieces given on the popular BBC children's television programme Jackanory. The book was the first of a successful series.
Eccleshare, Julia. “Joan Aiken”. The Guardian Unlimited, p. 25.
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Textual Production Eleanor Farjeon
One spur to this late work was Farjeon's indignation at a BBC radio programme in 1953 about Thomas, which was repeated despite her protest after the first broadcast. The programme maintained that she had been...
Textual Production Harold Pinter
Pinter began this work as a radio play. The BBC archives hold a scene-by-scene plan he made for it, plus statements about overall themes and purpose. This plan was rejected in November 1958, but later...

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May 2009: The BBC aimed to demonstrate that poetry...

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May 2009

The BBC aimed to demonstrate that poetry is for everyone in a series launched this month: it succeeded in that sales of poetry soared in Britain.

Late October 2009: The BBC first opened to the public its sound...

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Late October 2009

The BBC first opened to the public its sound archive entitled Suffragette Voices.

6 October 2010: A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes,...

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6 October 2010

A previously unknown poem by Ted Hughes , Last Letter, became available to the public when it was read on the BBC 's Channel 4 News by Jonathan Pryce .
Kennedy, Maev. “Unknown poem reveals Ted Hughes’ torment over death of Sylvia Plath”. The Guardian.

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