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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production E. M. Forster
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...
Textual Production Deborah Moggach
DM published her twelfth novel, Close Relations, for which she also wrote the screenplay when it became a highly successful and slightly scandalous BBC television serial.
The title Close Relations has been used by...
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, 1986.
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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, 2001, pp. 107-23.
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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, 1944.
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The major collection of her papers at Boston University includes letters and proofs. More letters are in the...
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 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 Marina Warner
MW 's first filmscript was followed by two others written for Cinderella and Imaginary Women, both produced in 1986. She also wrote a television script for Tell Me More, screened on BBC 's...
Textual Production Elspeth Huxley
In later years EH was a frequent member, in sessions of six weeks at a time, of the panel on the BBC 's The Critics, for which on 20 August 1954 she reviewed Eudora Welty
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.
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Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen, 1986.
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Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
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Textual Production Alison Uttley
AU 's radio play about Mary Queen of Scots was broadcast by the BBC , which had also been airing readings of some of her stories.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph, 1986.
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Textual Production Harold Pinter
Writing for radio (the 6 Third Programme , precursor of Radio Three ), television, and West End revues (put on by Michael Codron ) turned out to be a lifeline for Pinter after the failure...
Textual Production F. Tennyson Jesse
In 1948 FTJ and her husband adapted the novel as a play, which opened in London at the New Boltons Theatre Club in May 1951. The novel was produced as a talking book in 1953...
Textual Production Irene Handl
These were IR's only books. She also wrote for radio and contributed the introduction to The Listening Corner Storybook, published for the BBC in 1985.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
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...

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3 November 1956: Prime Minister Anthony Eden made one of a...

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3 November 1956

Prime Minister Anthony Eden made one of a series of ministerial broadcasts on the recent Suez crisis, which was covered by BBC television and ITV as well as the BBC radio service at home and...

24 September 1957: BBC television for schools began broadca...

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24 September 1957

BBC television for schools began broadcasting.
BBC Handbook: 1960. BBC, 1960, http://U of A HSS HE 8690 B86.
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Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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21 April 1958: Margery Fry died as almost a national celebrity:...

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21 April 1958

Margery Fry died as almost a national celebrity: criminal justice reformer, prison reformer, campaigner for victims' compensation, educationalist (briefly Principal of Somerville College ), writer on children's care and development, and latterly broadcaster (a regular...

14 July 1958: The BBC transmitted its first live television...

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14 July 1958

The BBC transmitted its first live television broadcast from Africa via Eurovision : coverage of Bastille Day in Algiers.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
389

4 November 1958: BBC television broadcast the coronation of...

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4 November 1958

BBC television broadcast the coronation of Pope John XXIII via Eurovision .
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
389

Up to 8 October 1959: The BBC for the first time gave coverage...

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Up to 8 October 1959

The BBC for the first time gave coverage in its news broadcasts to a General Election campaign.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
390

20 June 1960: Nan Winton became the first woman reader...

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20 June 1960

Nan Winton became the first woman reader of television network news on the BBC .
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
391

25 December 1960: Queen Elizabeth II's first pre-recorded Christmas...

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25 December 1960

Queen Elizabeth II 's first pre-recorded Christmas message was broadcast on BBC television.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
391

1962: Publisher John Calder and writer's widow...

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1962

Publisher John Calder and writer's widow Sonia Orwell together organised at Edinburgh the first, highly successful Writers' Conference.
Drabble, Margaret. “Pressure to Perform”. The Author, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 2001, pp. 162-4.
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15 January 1963: The BBC removed its ban preventing comedy...

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15 January 1963

The BBC removed its ban preventing comedy programmes from discussing politics, sex, religion, or royalty.
Seymour, David, and Emily Seymour, editors. A Century of News. Contender Books, 2003.

New Year's Day 1964: The popular and long-running BBC programme...

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New Year's Day 1964

The popular and long-running BBC programme Top of the Pops was launched The presenter was Jimmy Savile , who years later was posthumously disgraced as a paedophile.
O’Hagan, Andrew. “Light Entertainment”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 21, 8 Nov. 2012, pp. 5-8.
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1965: Peter Watson's The War Game, a television...

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1965

Peter Watson 's The War Game, a television film which imagines conditions in Britain in the aftermath of a nuclear attack, was withdrawn by the BBC in response to government pressure.
Rose, David. “The Closest Call”. The Observer, 3 Mar. 2002, p. Review 15.
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16 December 1966: The BBC screened its famous Wednesday play...

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16 December 1966

The BBC screened its famous Wednesday playCathy Come Home, a drama about a homeless family written by Jeremy Sandford (husband of Nell Dunn ), produced by Tony Garnett , and directed by Ken Loach .
Gilbey, Ryan. “Putting the Manifesto before the Movie”. London Review of Books, 31 Oct. 2002, pp. 34-5.
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Cathy Come Home. http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/cathycomeho/cathycomeho.htm.

1967: The BBC began the first regular colour television...

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1967

The BBC began the first regular colour television service in Europe.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
360

30 September 1967: The BBC's Third Programme was renamed Radio...

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30 September 1967

The BBC 's Third Programme was renamed Radio 3 , and revised to cut down the proportion of spoken word material broadcast in favour of classical music.
“Third Programme Starts”. BBC Four: Timeline: The Lost Decade, 1945-1955.
Childs, Peter, and Mike Storry, editors. Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture. Routledge, 1999.
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