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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 Iris Murdoch
IM spoke with her younger fellow-novelist A. S. Byatt about aspects of her craft, in an interview for BBC Radio Four which is now available on the internet.
“BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4.
Textual Production Berta Ruck
Shortly after this BR was invited to give a broadcast talk on Heroines in Fiction, and incurred serious displeasure by wishing goodnight to her mother on air at the end of the programme (while...
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.
267
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 Virginia Woolf
VW broadcast in a BBC series called Words Fail Me a talk with the title Craftsmanship; however, she used her talk to attack the title as wholly inappropriate to the use of words.
Woolf, Virginia. The Death of the Moth. Hogarth Press.
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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 Una Marson
Marson initially approached T. S. Eliot to write the preface, but he refused, so she turned to L. A. G. Strong , a British writer and a colleague at the BBC . She dedicated the...
Textual Production Iris Murdoch
She had finished it in January that year, and dedicated it to John Simopoulos , a Greek friend who was gay. It was adapted for television (BBC2 ) by Reg Gadney in 1982.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins.
418, 421, 471
Textual Production Catherine Byron
In 1997 the BBC and the Arts Council commissioned CB to produce Writing on Skins, in which she explores writing on vellum, in collaboration with artist Denis Brown , for the Write Out Loud...
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 Stevie Smith
SS recorded a series of three programmes entitled Poems and Drawings, which was broadcast by the BBC .
Spalding, Frances. Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography. Faber and Faber.
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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...

Timeline

16 January 1929: The Listener began publication; it has been...

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16 January 1929

The Listener began publication; it has been said that it did more for the new 'thirties poetry in Britain than any of the specialized poetry magazines.

July 1929: J. B. Priestley published his novel The Good...

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July 1929

J. B. Priestley published his novelThe Good Companions, which became a best-seller and made his name.

21 January 1930: King George V's speech from the House of...

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21 January 1930

King George V 's speech from the House of Lords opening the London Naval Conference was broadcast by the BBC to several countries around the world.

May 1930: Factory-produced television sets (the Baird...

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May 1930

Factory-produced television sets (the Bairdtelevisor) went on sale for 25 guineas in the UK.

14 July 1930: The first televised play was broadcast by...

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14 July 1930

The first televised play was broadcast by the BBC : Lance Sieveking and Sydney Moseley 's production of Pirandello 's experimental The Man with the Flower in his Mouth.

4 December 1931: The BBC announced the resignation of Hilda...

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4 December 1931

The BBC announced the resignation of Hilda Matheson , its director of talks, which she had actually submitted in October. This was the climax of a long-running struggle over a series of talks by Harold Nicolson

1932: The BBC adopted a policy restricting their...

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1932

The BBC adopted a policy restricting their employment of married women.

2 May 1932: Broadcasting House at Portland Place, London,...

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2 May 1932

Broadcasting House at Portland Place, London, opened as home of the British Broadcasting Corporation .

19 December 1932: The BBC launched the Empire Service; this...

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19 December 1932

The BBC launched the Empire Service; this developed into the World Service , broadcasting around the world.

28 July 1933: Sheila Borrett became the BBC's first female...

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28 July 1933

Sheila Borrett became the BBC 's first female radio announcer.

21 August 1933: The BBC news was first read by a woman announcer;...

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21 August 1933

The BBC news was first read by a woman announcer; the practice was soon discontinued.

29 November 1934: BBC radio presented its first broadcast of...

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29 November 1934

BBC radio presented its first broadcast of a royal wedding ceremony (the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina ) from Westminster Abbey.

20 January 1936: King George V died and Edward VIII assumed...

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20 January 1936

King George V died and Edward VIII assumed the throne; he broadcast a message to the Empire the same day from the BBC 's headquarters, Broadcasting House.

31 August 1936: Elizabeth Cowell became the BBC's first female...

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31 August 1936

Elizabeth Cowell became the BBC 's first female television announcer.

2 November 1936: The BBC began the world's first regular public...

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2 November 1936

The BBC began the world's first regular public television service from Alexandra Palace in London.

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