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Textual Production Dodie Smith
Dear Octopus was revived almost immediately at the Adelphi , in July and August of 1940, and it remains DS 's most frequently revived play. It was published by Heinemann in 1938.
Gale, Maggie B. West End Women: Women and the London Stage, 1918-1962. Routledge.
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Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus.
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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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Textual Production Caryl Churchill
Churchill thought of The Ants as a television play when she wrote it, but her agent sensibly sent it to radio.
Churchill, Caryl. Plays: One. Methuen.
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Between 1962 and 1973 CC wrote a number of short radio plays that...
Textual Production Naomi Jacob
A few months after her death, NJ 's Me—Thinking Things Over appeared in print, collecting her talks broadcast on the BBC 's Woman's Hour.
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin).
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Textual Production Sara Maitland
These stories (originally commissioned by the BBC for broadcast during the days of Holy Week, leading up to Good Friday) were not reprinted in Angel Maker: The Short Stories of Sara Maitland, which was...
Textual Production G. B. Stern
GBS did her writing early in the day: sometimes before breakfast, always from ten to one.
Stern, G. B. Trumpet Voluntary. Cassell.
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The major collection of her papers at Boston University includes letters and proofs. More letters are in the...
Textual Production Jeanette Winterson
The television adaptation of JW 's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was transmitted in three episodes on BBC Television ; the script was published the same year.
Winterson, Jeanette. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit: Adapted from her novel by Jeanette Winterson. Pandora.
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Textual Production Jean Rhys
The production was commissioned by the BBC , and took place at the Royal Festival Hall in London. It was conducted by Colin Davis , with Meriel Dickinson as soloist. The work was later...
Textual Production Phyllis Bentley
Inheritance was a huge success: it sold 20,000 copies by July 1932, and within a year had gone through ten editions; in time it was translated into eight languages. It was broadcast serially on the...
Textual Production Iris Murdoch
IM published her Booker-Prize-winning novel, The Sea, the Sea, a tale of obsessive love, televised by the BBC in 2001.
Fletcher, John, and Cheryl Bove. Iris Murdoch: A Descriptive Primary and Annotated Secondary Bibliography. Garland Publishing.
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Todd, Richard. Iris Murdoch. Methuen.
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Textual Production Helen Waddell
HW was assiduous in supplying obituaries for friends, acquaintances, or figures she admired, and was very upset when her notice for the Times on Charlotte , G. B. Shaw's wife, appeared riddled with misprints.
Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable.
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Textual Production Brigid Brophy
After John Profumo resigned from the Cabinet on 4 June 1963 following his detection in a lie to the House of Commons about his relationship with a prostitute, the BBC commissioned BB for a talk...
Textual Production Selima Hill
SH reviews books of poetry. She contributed the introduction to Helen Armstrong 's Sean's House: Poems by Writers from Selima Hill's Exeter Writing Groups, Exeter 1996. In 1990 she edited Jumping Over Trees: Poems...
Textual Production Penelope Lively
PL has been highly productive as a writer for children, in books and stories which tackle themes similar to those of her adult novels. She has acted as presenter on a BBC Radio 4 programme...
Textual Production Louise Page
The BBC published in 1997 Isabella. An Orphan Jilted, a spoof costume novel set in the eighteenth century by Mary Crewe, realized by Louise Page .
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This is a spin-off from LP 's...
Textual Production Dodie Smith
DS found herself increasingly out of step with the new drama being produced in London since the advent of the Angry Young Men. She could tolerate John Osborne and even admired Shelagh Delaney ...

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29 July 1948: The BBC broadcast a television programme...

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29 July 1948

The BBC broadcast a television programme on the opening of the Olympic Games from Wembley Stadium in still visibly bomb-damaged London. This was the first Olympics to be televised.

11 October 1948: The first outside BBC television broadcast...

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11 October 1948

The first outside BBC television broadcast was made: from Number 10 Downing Street for the Commonwealth Conference .

March 1949: Elizabeth Bowen's feature on 1918 was broadcast...

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March 1949

Elizabeth Bowen 's feature on 1918 was broadcast on the BBC 's Third Programme series A Year I Remember.

29 July 1949: BBC television aired its first weather b...

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29 July 1949

BBC television aired its first weather broadcast.

4 September 1949: The surface of the moon was televised by...

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4 September 1949

The surface of the moon was televised by the BBC for the first time, through a powerful telescope.

16 January 1950: The BBC made its first broadcast of Listen...

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16 January 1950

The BBC made its first broadcast of Listen with Mother.

23 February 1950: The General Election brought 84 percent of...

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23 February 1950

The General Election brought 84 percent of the British electorate out to vote. The BBC aired the first televised report of results of this election.

27 August 1950: The BBC made its first live television broadcast...

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27 August 1950

The BBC made its first live television broadcast from the Continent (from Calais) using outside broadcast equipment.

30 September 1950: The BBC aired its first live air-to-ground...

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30 September 1950

The BBC aired its first live air-to-ground television broadcast, from an aircraft in flight.

26 October 1950: The BBC made its first sound and television...

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26 October 1950

The BBC made its first sound and television broadcast from the House of Commons, on the occasion of the opening of the rebuilt chamber.

January 1951: The Beveridge Committee on Broadcasting reported...

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January 1951

The BeveridgeCommittee on Broadcasting reported that the propaganda power
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of access through radio and television to millions of homes was too great to be allowed out of public institutional hands.

1 January 1951: After a one-week trial the previous May,...

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1 January 1951

After a one-week trial the previous May, The Archers, countryside soap-opera of BBC radio, began regular broadcasting; it soon attracted two million listeners.

May 1951: The BBC experimentally launched a comic radio...

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May 1951

The BBC experimentally launched a comic radio series, Crazy People; as The Goon Show, it ran for nine years and became a household word.

6 June 1951: The BBC made its first broadcast from Buckingham...

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6 June 1951

The BBC made its first broadcast from Buckingham Palace, on the occasion of a State Banquet for King Haakon of Norway.

4 October 1951: E. M. Forster's praise for the accomplishments...

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4 October 1951

E. M. Forster 's praise for the accomplishments of the BBC's Third Programme was published in The Listener.

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