Lochhead, Liz. True Confessions and New Clichés. Polygon Books.
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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Jean Rhys | Diaz needed the author's permission for the performance, and on November 5th she put an advertisement in the New Statesman to find her. At this point, Rhys was living in obscurity in the country, and... |
| Textual Production | Liz Lochhead | |
| Textual Production | Kate Clanchy | BBC Radio 3
broadcast readings and discussion by KC
and working-class poet Paul Farley
of poems by Philip Larkin
based on train travel around Larkinland and conversation with some of its denizens. “Children of the Whitsun Weddings”. BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature. |
| Textual Production | Naomi Jacob | NJ
made an additional career as a public lecturer; without any specialist expertise, she could express confident and articulate opinions on a wide range of topics. She was a regular and outspoken contributor to the... |
| Textual Production | Penelope Shuttle | |
| Textual Production | Sarah Daniels | SD
considered she had never enjoyed anything so much as collaborative work on the BBC World Service
radio soap Westway (in work broadcast in November 1997). Bull, John, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 245. Gale Research. 114-15 |
| Textual Production | Sara Maitland | In due time they followed this sequel volume with a twentieth-anniversary set of stories broadcast by the BBC
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 271 |
| Textual Production | G. B. Stern | GBS
often broadcast on the BBC
. She reviewed books, and later remembered an encounter with an old typescript of a review of A. E. Gallatin
's Sir Max Beerbohm
—Bibliographical Notes, 1944, during... |
| Textual Production | Shelagh Delaney | |
| Textual Production | Marghanita Laski | In July 1970 ML
conducted two televised interviews for the BBC
with Archbishop Anthony Bloom
on the topic of God and Man. These were published the following year in Bloom's book of the same... |
| Textual Production | Jean Rhys | Rhys heard from a friend in October 1956 that the BBC
were looking for her regarding a feature production of the novel. She wrote to them to encourage their plans, as it had been seven... |
| Textual Production | Susan Hill | SH
began reviewing books for Time and Tide as an undergraduate. After taking her degree she spent five years as book-review editor for the Coventry Evening Telegraph before returning to fiction. By the mid-1960s she... |
| Textual Production | Fleur Adcock | Absent from the volume is Miramar, a poem about her mother, and the difficult relationship they had while the poet was in her teens. This is available on the BBC World Service
website. |
| 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. 226 Grove, Valerie. Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith. Chatto and Windus. 107 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Textual Production | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
did an interview with Christopher Cook
for the BBC World Service
, which is available on the internet from their Audio Interviews series. “BBC Audio Interviews”. BBC Radio 4. |
Timeline
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.
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.
4 November 1958: BBC television broadcast the coronation of...
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4 November 1958
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.
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
.
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.
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.
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.
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.
34
, No. 21, pp. 5-8. 7
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.
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
.
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.
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